“This will remove a major bottleneck in transportation of LMO to states. As on date, 1172 tankers are available for LMO, with the capacity 15900 MT,” the statement said.

Last week, a Tata Steel spokesperson had said the company was supplying 300 tonne of LMO daily to various states.

Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week ending April 17, 2021 in thousands of net tons: North East: 164; Great Lakes: 603; Midwest: 183; Southern: 747 and Western: 73 for a total of 1770.

The U.S. imported a total of 2,292,000 net tons (NT) of steel in March 2021.

The overseas market is becoming a big engine for the performance growth of many domestic power battery manufacturers.

Sandvik and beamIt group announced on April 20, 2021 the introduction of super duplex stainless steel (Osprey 2507 metal powder, an alloy with both mechanical strength and high corrosion resistance).

Vietnam made a final decision on the mid-term anti-dumping review of China related color coated steel plates.

Recently, the international standard for ferronickel testing (iso23156:2021) formulated by Jiuquan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. was officially released and implemented on the official website of the international organization for Standardization (ISO).