Starting from mid-December 2008, Posco (South Korea) plans to modernize one of its four cold rolling mills (No. 2) of 1.8mtpy capacity at its ...

In January-June of 2008, Egyptian Ezz Steel increased production of long products 0.7%, and of flat products - 3%, compared with the same months of last year, the company said in ...

Jinxi Steel (Hebei province) announced on August 12 that it has acquired a 71% stake in Xinyi Iron & Steel, a 1mtpy producer of HR products located in the neighboring province Shanxi. A contract on ...

Global downward trend, a seasonal decline of market activity and the presence of Chinese material in the market has entailed the downward correction of stockists' prices for flat products in ...

In September, players in Slovak market for flat products forecast stable prices both from domestic producer U.S. Steel Kosice (an evidence of which are stable prices for September output from this mill for Poland) and from East European neighbours ...

By the beginning of 2013, Cia Siderurgica Huachipato SA (Chile) is going to increase pig iron production from 1.2mtpy to 3.25mtpy, steelmaking capacity – from 1.45mtpy to ...

Suppliers of CIS flat products, prospering in H1, in July faced the necessity to lower their sights. Thus, while a month ago exporters hoped for a slight price decline, in August it became clear that ...

Despite virtually full absence of export offers for Egyptian HR flats, export of CR and HDG coils remains the issue for Egyptian ...

Quite moderate demand and price decrease of import uncoated flat products have resulted in a rapid fall of domestic quotations for HDG flats for profiling in ...

Downward trend in the region of South East Asia results in a lull in the segment of flat steel in South Korea. Despite a decrease of offer prices by $130/t for import material, in particular for Chinese HR coils, since early July, South Korean buyers prefer ...

The US government has set new reference prices for cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Ukraine for the period from August 1 to ...

On August 13, India's Tata Steel, Vietnam Steel Corporation and Vietnam Cement Industries Corporation (Vicem) have signed a joint venture agreement to ...

Malaysian producer Mycron Steel continues trial production at its upgraded cold rolling mill, started in July. As a result of the upgrading, the line capacity was increased from ...

On August 13, China's Valin Steel Group and ArcelorMittal signed an agreement to set up Valin ArcelorMittal Electrical Steel joint venture with 600,000tpy capacity producing CR products of electrical ...

Coil steel market of Poland, which has been rising since the year start owing to ArcelorMittal Poland and foreign suppliers, has stopped its upward movement. The local producer did not ...