Latest Steel News
SteelOrbis offers the latest independent steel news coverage compiled by its worldwide steel industry network. Approximately 25 fresh news articles on topics most prominently affecting the steel industry at large can be viewed on the steel news pages everyday in four different languages.
Kobe Steel revises earnings forecast for FY 2011-12
Panzhihua to produce 30 million mt of V-Ti-Fe concentrates per year by 2015
Italian new car registrations decline in March
Lucchini inks sale contract for Bari Fonderie Meridionali
Ukraine’s coal mining output up 7.4 percent in Jan-Mar
83.75 percent of quota used for seamless steel pipe imports to Ukraine
Xilin Steel to commission 1,260 cubic meter blast furnace
NLMK to increase investments in Ural subsidiaries
Jiyu Steel focuses on outdated capacity elimination and upgrades
Fujian Sangang completes hot commissioning of continuous slab caster No. 2
China’s GDP estimated to rise by 8.4 percent in Q1
March 26– April 1, 2012 Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa
Russian scrap exports by rail decline in January-March
Shougang Jingtang produces high grade galvanized auto sheet
Zhongse Hainan Non-Ferrous Metal to start building tin-coated sheet project
Outokumpu inks €400 million credit facility agreement
National Oilwell Varco acquires flexible pipe producer
Reliance Steel completes acquisition of National Specialty Alloys
US import permits jump 17 percent in March
Eurozone slowdown and rising costs threaten UK construction product sector
Germany’s passenger car output up 7.6% in Mar over Feb
Turkish metal producers’ sales prices up 3.15% in Mar over Feb
EU-27 industrial producer prices up 0.8% in Feb over Jan
Turkey’s scrap imports up 11.2 percent in Jan-Feb
Macquarie at IREPAS: The market sentiment in China is holding up
Montenegrin steel mill ZEHK for sale at half initial asking price
Danieli inks MoU for €500 million special steel mill in Serbia
Ukrainian steel pipe output rises in January-March
Ukraine issues production results for first three months
Russia supplies 651,000 mt of steel to EU in Q1
Indonesia considers 50 percent mining export tax in 2013
Kim Marti at IREPAS: Long-term trend for long steel is up, margins tight
Italian industrial output sales prices up 0.3% in Feb from Jan
Italy’s steel exports rise 10.9 percent in January
China’s GDP forecast to rise 8.4 percent in Q2
Minmetals Development sees 40 percent rise in net profit in 2011
Steel producers in Hebei indicate overall loss in Jan-Feb
Aquila Resources to sell Isaac Plains stake to fund Pilbara iron ore project
EU starts AD investigation for certain welded pipes from three countries
Severstal increases rolled product deliveries for international automakers
Gonvarri Steel Services acquires British steel service center
US auto sales rise again in March
Canadian government streamlines import permit process
Trade surplus and industrial production improve in Brazil
JMC Steel creates Energex Tube with Lakeside acquisition
Turkey’s rebar exports up 30.4 percent in Feb over Jan
Turkey’s steel exports up 9.8 percent in Q1
French manufacturing turnover up 1.1% in Jan over Dec
David Faktor: Trade will find its way no matter what happens
IREPAS rebar and wire rod suppliers: Long steel market starts to gain stability
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