A comparison of shipments year-to-date in 2023 to the first seven months of 2022 shows the following changes: hot rolled sheet, up 4 percent, cold rolled sheet, down 1 percent and corrosion resistant sheet, down 2 percent.
Brazilian miner Vale said on Tuesday it expects to start building "mega hubs" in Middle Eastern countries next year to make low-carbon iron ore products for the steel industry, with the first one becoming operational in 2027.
No. 2 iron-ore miner Vale said the outlook for China’s steel-intensive property sector is “more encouraging” despite uncertainties, and reiterated its long-term view of the global steel market remains intact.
Over 19 percent of installed power grid capacity in Shanxi, the country's largest coal-producing region, comes from PV power, according to the State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company.
Liberty Steel is closing one of the three ovens at its Ostrava site in Czechia and there is a growing expectation that the company may idle its last two operational blast furnaces in Europe in the coming months.