Steel Times International News
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Production of stainless and special steels starts at Xingtai Steel
Xingtai Iron & Steel Corp, Ltd. (Xingtai Steel), has granted Siemens VAI Metals Technologies the final acceptance certificate for secondary steelmaking facilities and a four-strand continuous billet caster.
16 November 2011 -
Tata Steel to cut 70 Llanwern jobs
Tata Steel is cutting 70 jobs at its Llanwern site in Newport, Wales, UK
10 November 2011 -
Stainless steel production set for all time high?
Total world crude stainless steel production for 2011 is predicted to be 32.5Mt.
10 November 2011 -
ArcelorMittal hit by worldwide economic doubts
Lakshmi Mittal, head of the world’s biggest steelmaker, said ArcelorMittal faced both volume and price pressures’ over the next two months because of increasing economic uncertainty and weakening confidence among customers.
10 November 2011 -
SGL Carbon Results
Sales in the Business Area Performance Products increased 10% from €545.2M to €601.7M due to improvement in graphite electrode volumes resulting from the global growth in electric steel production.
09 November 2011 -
China plans domestic iron ore increase
China plans to supply 45% of its iron ore use by 2015, an increase from last year's 32%.
08 November 2011
