South Korean ferrous scrap imports fell by 24pc from a year earlier in July because of cheaper domestic scrap and high inventory levels.

Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel has raised €190mn ($189mn) in a financing round, for its initiative to decarbonise steel production by around 95pc using renewable hydrogen.

Several presenters pointed to new markets opening up for magnesium metal usage in lightweight die casting for EVs, battery housing and, further down the line, in the batteries themselves.

The increases are underpinned primarily by higher production costs.

Part of what will lead to increasing prices will be rising costs both for raw materials and energy, according to Kestenbaum.

CMC recycles and manufactures steel and metal products at its facilities in the US and in Poland.

Open interest on the CME Group's north European hot-rolled coil contract hit another record level on Tuesday, as daily traded tonnage also reached a new high.

The firm's subsidiary Keppel Energy will hire Japan's Mitsubishi Power Asia Pacific and Singapore-based Jurong Engineering to build the Keppel Sakra Cogen Plant, located in the Sakra sector of Jurong Island.