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.
Export duty on Russian scrap may be reduced from 2013
Liaoyang Steel Tube starts production at welded pipe facility
Largest steel trading center in southeast China to be built in Jiangjin
Baosteel to deliver S355 thick plate to Total
Bayi Steel to supply plate for Alashankou oil depot expansion
Chongqing Steel to invest RMB 1.925 billion to relocate old steelmaking equipment
BHP Billiton declares force majeure at Bowen Basin coal mines
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa
Orbis Steel Index mostly sees sideways or downward movement
POSCO’s Indian steel project faces further delays
Tianjin Haigang Steel Sheet to commission galvanized strip line
Baosteel records net profit of RMB 7.362 billion in 2011
Afferro and Severstal further delay closing of Putu iron ore stake sale
Canadian rig count plummets again as US rigs rebound
JMC completes Lakeside Steel acquisition
Turkey’s steel sector foreign trade deficit declines in February
Eurostat expects 2.6 percent euro area annual inflation in Feb
Bermuda-based FeOre to start building iron ore project in Mongolia
Japan’s ferroalloy imports down four percent in Jan-Feb
Canada’s basic metal product prices down 4.6 percent in Feb
Japanese auto output up 19.7 percent in February
Xiwang Special Steel’s net profit rises 84.5 percent in 2011
Jianbang Group to commission new wire rod project in May
Xinyegang Steel develops corrosion-resistant 13Cr seamless pipe
Zhongyou Precision Pipe inaugurates new welded pipe R&D center
Bayi Steel starts construction on metal product processing facilities
Severstal completes overhaul of rolling mill 5000 at Cherepovets Steel Mill
Hormozgan Steel’s semi-finished steel output reaches 118,000 mt
Khouzestan Steel’s semi-finished steel output rises by 13 percent
China to green-light Vale’s mega iron ore vessels within months
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta orders stainless strip rolling mill for Krefeld
Haohong Logistics to build steel industrial park in Yunnan
Chongqing Steel posts net loss of RMB 1.47 billion for 2011
Fangda Group to invest RMB 1 billion to develop mining project
SMS Siemag to modernize continuous caster No. 2 of Salzgitter Flachstahl
Xichang Steel and Vanadium achieves Q1 pig iron output target
China’s daily crude steel output rises in mid-March
Rio Tinto joins Chinese iron ore trading platform after Fortescue
Stemcor’s turnover improves in 2011
Hot commissioning completed at Liuzhou Steel’s RH refining furnace No. 2
Heavy rain curtails margin for Brazilian miner MMX
Bri-Chem’s new seamless pipe mill to increase production capacity during 2012
Earnings drop slightly for Worthington in Q3
S. African steel producers’ sales prices down 2.7% in Feb from Jan
Spain’s motor vehicle output up 33.6% in Feb over Jan
Brazilian iron ore exports up 34 percent in Feb over Jan
Chrome production rises in Turkey’s Adana Province
Japan’s scrap exports up 26 percent in Feb over Jan
Anshan Steel inks cooperation deal with US-based ISSI
Gujarat NRE receives approval for longwall production in Australia
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