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The European Commission has imposed a provisional safeguard measure on imports of certain grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), citing a sharp increase in imports and serious injury to EU producers. The measure will…
China's iron ore futures moved higher on Friday, but the wider ferrous complex came under pressure as coking coal and coke prices fell sharply following renewed expectations of improved coal supply. Weak steel demand…
Jinan Steel Group has placed two separate orders with SMS group for large-scale travelling grate pelletizing plants at its steelworks in Hebei province, China. One plant, with a capacity of 2.4 mln tons per year, will…
AM/NS India has secured Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) licences under two new standards covering quenched and tempered (Q&T) steel and zinc-aluminium-magnesium (Zn-Al-Mg), or ZAM, coated steel, expanding domestic…
Vallourec has secured a contract from Subsea7 to supply carbon steel seamless line pipe and thermal insulation coating for Petrobras' Sepia 2 offshore project in Brazil's pre-salt Santos Basin. The contract covers…
ArcelorMittal Belgium in Ghent received the Oceana Frontier, the world's first LNG-powered bulk carrier. The vessel delivered iron ore from Canada, marking its first call at both ArcelorMittal Belgium and North Sea…
China's iron ore futures moved higher on Thursday, supported by pre-holiday restocking by steel mills, although weak mill profitability continued to limit the upside. Market insiders said mills are booking cargoes ahead…
India's finished steel consumption increased 3.9 pct YoY to 14.316 mln tons in August 2026, while steel production remained broadly stable on an annual basis, according to provisional data from the Joint Plant Committee…
Google has entered into an agreement with Stegra to purchase environmental attribute certificates (EACs) linked to steel production at Stegra's planned green steel plant in Boden, Sweden. The agreement covers EACs…
GravitHy has awarded CAP INGELEC an EPC contract to design and build a 1.15 GW electrical substation for its planned low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI) production facility in Fos-sur-Mer, France. The substation will…
Alleima is testing AI and machine vision technology to improve quality control of long tubes at its Sandviken production facility in Sweden. Developed in collaboration with Prevas, the system captures images of the tube…
China's iron ore futures edged higher on Wednesday as improving market sentiment, expectations for steel production cuts and possible policy support offset continued concerns over weak steel demand and mill…
Asian HRC prices have remained generally firm since the beginning of September, supported by higher raw material costs, firmer domestic steel prices and expectations of improving demand, although buying sentiment…
Tokyo Steel, Japan's leading electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaker, has raised its flat steel prices by JPY 3,000 (USD 19) per ton for October sales, while keeping long steel prices unchanged. The company's HRC prices…
U. S. Steel has received the final required air permit to proceed with construction of a new quench and tempering (Q&T) facility at its Fairfield Tubular Operations in Alabama. The USD 475 mln project will add in-house…
Flux Steel Works has unveiled plans to renovate and re-equip a former ATI steel plant in Ohio to produce grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), the core material used in power transformers. The company acquired the…
Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, a subsidiary of Salzgitter AG, and Zelestra have signed Germany's largest hybrid solar-plus-energy-storage power purchase agreement (PPA), supporting the supply of renewable electricity for…
China's iron ore futures edged lower on Tuesday as weak steel demand, poor mill profitability and continued concerns over production cuts kept market sentiment under pressure. Market insiders said negative sentiment…
ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) has launched AM/NS Pelican, a premium galvanized steel brand targeting growing demand from India's construction, infrastructure, manufacturing and engineering sectors. The…
POSCO Steel Co., Ltd. has agreed key commercial terms with Australian energy company Santos for a 10-year supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG), strengthening the steelmaker's long-term energy supply arrangements. Under…
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