Steel Times International News
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World crude steel production for September up 2%
World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 132.9Mt in September 2016, up 2.0% up on September last year.
20 October 2016 -
Liberty to re-start rod and bar mills
Rod and bar mills in Sheerness, Kent, UK, previously owned by Thames Steel, are to be re-started by Liberty House in its bid to expand its integrated UK steel and engineering business.
20 October 2016 -
MPI chief outlines post-Brexit challenges and opportunities
Chris McDonald, chief executive of the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) is to outline the challenges and opportunities of Brexit in a public lecture entitled ‘The effect of Brexit on Innovation.’
20 October 2016 -
Wire rod joint venture in Mexico gets underway
A joint venture between Shinso Corporation and Kobe Steel plus four other companies – Metal One Corporation, Osaka Seiko, Grupo Simec, SAB de CV and O&K American Corporation – officially opened an automotive steel wire plant in Mexico at the Santa Fe Industrial Park in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico.
14 October 2016 -
NLMK announces Q3 sales increase of 7%
Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced a quarter-on-quarter sales increase for Q3 2016 of 7% to 4.2Mt. Crude steel output was down 4% to 4Mt.
14 October 2016 -
Global steel demand forecast to increase by just 0.2%
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) forecasts that global steel demand will increase by 0.2% to 1.5 billion tonnes in 2016 following a contraction of 3% in 2015. In 2017, it is forecast that global steel demand will grow by 0.5% and will reach 1.51 billion tonnes.
11 October 2016
