In September, Sharq Sohar Steel Rolling Mills (Oman) will start commercial production of square billet in a new 250,000tpy meltshop, equipped with a 36t EAF, a 30t ladle-furnace and a three-strand billet conticaster. The company started cold trials at the meltshop in ...

Chinese government may cancel a 5% tax rebate on exports of alloyed steel products. Chinese government's attention paid to this issue has its grounds and is resulted from...

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 ...

Pending new plants' prices for rebar and accumulation of stocks in traders' warehouses are affecting the sales volumes of Russian producers. Retention of plants' prices for rebar on the level of the last two months would ...

Ukraine's Metinvest-Ukraine is decreasing domestic prices for flat products of September output from Azovstal, Yenakievo and Makeevka SW. Moreover, it has ...

In November 2008 – January 2009, China National Metal Products and Xinxing Heavy Industry plan to start construction of the India Iron & Steel Company Limited ...

Slovenia's producer of long products of special steel grades, Store Steel, in August started installation of the second 160,000tpy bar rolling mill, as part of ...

A rapid growth of global rebar prices in H1 of 2008 was caused by two factors: 1) permanent shortage and quick growth of the market in Middle Eastern countries – primarily, the United Arab Emirates, and 2) recovery of Turkey as the world's leader in the exports of rebar as a result of disappearance of the Chinese products from export markets.

South Korean producer of long products of special steel grades, SeAH Besteel, plans to expand its steelmaking capacity from 2mtpy to ...

In November, Al Jazeera Steel Products (Oman) will start commercial production of long products at a 300,000tpy bar rolling mill. The company planned to start operations in January, though construction works have been ...

ArcelorMittal Temirtau has revised export prices for flat steel products of September output to be supplied to Ukraine: HR products have moved down by ...

Export quotations of long products are falling continuously in Turkey. Thus, despite all efforts of stockists in UAE, making reference to large quantities purchased earlier at top prices, rebar quotations for this destination have dropped by ...

A great fall of August prices for shredded scrap in the USA and quotations for import longs resulted in downward correction of domestic prices. Metal Expert has learned that Nucor has put down its prices for ...

Suppliers of CIS long products fail to keep prices for longs and semis from falling. Quotations for square billet from Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh producers have gone down by $40-120/t in a week, depending on destination. The price rise in the Caspian Sea ports is the highest one ...