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.
ArcelorMittal moves patent case against AK Steel and Severstal NA to district court
World pig iron output moves upward in Q1
Sandvik posts lower order intake value and net profit in Q1
MOC: Average steel price in China softens slightly
HSBC’s China flash manufacturing PMI declines to 50.5 in April
US raw steel production drops after weeks of increases
Optima Specialty Steel commits $25 million in upgrades to MST
Peru’s iron ore production up 48.1 percent in February
S. Africa’s carbon and alloy steel imports double in Feb
Global crude steel output up 2.3 percent in Q1
Turkey’s coking coal imports down 7.8 percent in Jan-Feb
LME billet market resumes its overall downtrend
Italy’s finished steel imports up 25.2% in Jan, exports down 9.7%
Universal Coal increases stake in South African coking coal project
Echeng Steel gets RMB 280 million in local government subsidies in 2012
Taigang Stainless Steel’s operating revenue up 11% in Q1
Taiwan’s CSC sells 2.5 million mt of carbon steel in Jan-Mar
ArcelorMittal Ostrava to supply steel tubes for water conduit in France
Ruukki now offers special steels in tubes and hollow section form
Kingland Pipeline issues shares to raise funds for two projects
Severstal’s crude steel output reaches 3.835 million mt in Q1
Ukraine’s DMKD to increase crude steel output by 12.5% in 2013
Scrap moves sideways on Orbis Steel Index
Spain’s Grupo Alfonso Gallardo to cut jobs due to lackluster demand
Hebei Steel sells 865,600 mt of finished steel to key domestic projects in Q1
JFE Steel’s galvanizing line in Thailand comes into operation
Italy’s flat steel imports from non-EU countries up 91% in Jan-Feb
Big River Steel receives $2 million for Arkansas mill
Insteel Industries reports higher earnings despite lower sales
Rig count slumps in US and Canada
Strong rise in Japan’s new ship export orders in March
Japan’s ferroalloy imports maintain downtrend in February
USGS: Decline in US steel industry activity could end soon
Turkey’s HRC exports to EU rise strongly in February
Turkey’s building construction costs up 3 percent in Q1
Brazil’s crude steel output down 4.3% in Q1
German producers’ rebar prices down 12.3 percent in March
Metalloinvest extends fleet of vehicles for mining operations
Northern Iron achieves record iron ore production in March quarter
Metinvest increases three-year pre-export finance facility to $560 million
India’s Supreme Court allows 18 more Karnataka mines to resume operations
NLMK’s Q1 finished steel output up 5.3% compared to Q4
EU finished steel imports up 36.16 percent in February
Hebei Steel Group issues positive sales data for subsidiaries
Malaysia initiates AD duty investigation for certain steel products from China
French crude steel output down 9.6 percent in March
CISA: China’s average daily crude steel output increases in early April
Jigang International Trade’s iron ore sales total 1.48 million mt in Q1
SAIL produces over 5 million mt of value-added steel products in FY 2012-13
Kumba Iron Ore’s iron ore output up two percent in Q1
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