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29 December 2021
Nippon Steel sues Toyota, Chinese steelmaker for patent violation

Nippon Steel Corp. said Thursday it has filed lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. and Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. alleging infringement of a patent for production technology relate...

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15 October 2021
Disruptions constrain automotive rebound, pent-up demand dissipating: worldsteel

The global automotive sector has rebounded strongly since the initial Covid-19 lockdowns last year but supply chain disruption is constraining further growth, worldsteel says in its latest short-range...

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15 October 2021
BHP, Posco to explore steel decarbonisation

UK-Australian resources firm BHP will invest up to $10mn over the next five years to explore technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in steel production with South Korean steel producer Posco.Th...

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15 October 2021
World Steel Association: Global Steel Demand Growth Downgraded For 2021 Due To China

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) today released an update of its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2021 and 2022. worldsteel forecasts that steel demand will grow by 4.5% in 2021 and reach 1,855.4...

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5 October 2021
Commercial Metals Company Announced Sale of California Site

Irving, Texas-headquartered Commercial Metals Company (CMC) announced decision to sell its Rancho Cucamonga site. The site will be repurposed to be used for other industrial projects. The sale is expe...

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5 October 2021
India's Tata Steel offloads NatSteel Holdings

Indian steel producer Tata Steel has sold its 100pc stake in its southeast Asian steel business NatSteel Holdings for an equity value of $172mn to reduce its debt.Tata's indirect subsidiary TS Global ...

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5 October 2021
Malaysia sets 2050 carbon neutral target

Malaysia's new Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, announced the country's goal of achieving carbon neutrality as early as 2050 and pledged to stop the construction of new coal-fired power plants.The...

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11 September 2021
Social distancing hits Hoa Phat’s construction steel sales

Many Vietnamese localities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces have increased social distancing and other lockdown restrictions. Hoa Phat’s construction steel and steel pipe v...

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Capacity Tracking

15 October 2021
Hoa Phat's HRC price cut signals slow recovery

Vietnam’s Hoa Phat has lowered its monthly domestic price for new hot rolled coil allocations, Kallanish notes. The price decision revealed on Thursday suggests that HRC demand has not recovered des...

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15 October 2021
Beijing unveils tough winter curbs on North China mills

Production among steel mills in North China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will be constrained between November 15 and March 15 in order to fulfil Beijing’s crude steel output reduction target and...

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15 October 2021
Indian mills raise HRC offers despite low demand

Indian hot rolled coil export offers have increased marginally on a cost-push from rising raw materials prices. Demand, however, remains low and global sentiment bearish.Indian-origin 2mm+ SAE grade H...

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Crazy increases continue in Turkish scrap market

Turkish mills have further increased their domestic scrap buying prices this week, Kallanish notes. This is mainly because of the weakening lira and sharp increases seen in imported scrap prices over ...

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5 October 2021
New Capacity Roundup – September 2021

EuropeBritish Steel’s Special Profile division has announced that it will construct a new service centre at its Skinningrove site, in North Yorkshire. The £26 million facility will include a variet...

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5 October 2021
Global Steel Output Dipped For the First Time in 2021

The world crude steel production by 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) totalled 156.8 million tonnes (Mt) in the month of August this year, down by 1.4% compared to the...

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5 October 2021
China’s cuts again affect global steel output

A summer of reduced steel output in China continued in August, with producers there making 13.2 percent less steel this August compared with August 2020. That month-on-month drop follows a similar pat...

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5 October 2021
China’s EAF capacity use falls to 7-month low of 53.5%

Average capacity utilization among the 71 independent electric-arc-furnace (EAF) steelmakers under Mysteel’s regular survey decreased for the second week last week to 53.47% as of September 23, lowe...

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Steel Demand Forecasts

15 October 2021
Supply catches demand, higher prices ‘new normal’: Irepas

Supply has caught up with demand in the global long products market, with lead times shortening, although prices higher than at the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2020 will be the new normal, says...

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15 October 2021
China’s Sept steel exports fall further on month

China’s finished steel exports declined further in September from August, sliding by another 2.6% on month to 4.9 million tonnes, which made last month’s export volume the second lowest so far thi...

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15 October 2021
China’s September steel exports fall to 2021 low

China's steel exports slowed in September to the lowest level since December 2020 following the country's export control polices, as well as weaker southeast Asian demand because of its Covid-19 lockd...

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15 October 2021
India Steel Export Volumes Set to Witness Drastic Surge

Amit Dixit of Edelweiss Securities, while commenting on his outlook on steel sector, said that India is likely to become more of a steel exporter. The steel export volumes from the country are likely ...

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15 October 2021
China BF mills’ rebar margins average $124/t

For September, average rebar margins among China’s 91 blast-furnace steel mills under Mysteel’s monthly survey gained substantially by Yuan 393/tonne ($61/t) on month to Yuan 801/t, which outpaced...

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5 October 2021
China mills’ iron ore stocks at 22-month low

Inventories of imported iron ore sintering fines stockpiled at the 64 Chinese blast-furnace steel mills sampled in Mysteel’s regular survey fell to a 22-month low of 14.65 million tonnes over August...

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5 October 2021
China coking coal, coke shortages, steel restrictions support scrap prices

Ferrous scrap prices may be seeing increasing support from demand in China to decarbonize, improve air emissions, and restrict steel output growth, as tight supplies of coking coal, met coke and energ...

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5 October 2021
China’s Aug scrap use in steel dips to 26.2%

Steel scrap utilization in the crude steel produced by the 211 Chinese steel mills sampled in Mysteel’s regular survey decreased for the third successive month in August, dipping by another 0.54 per...

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