In the past week, prices in the US market for long products have not changed much. Traders are still reporting moderate demand, still worsened by the approaching vacation season. Quotations from local mills have not changed. However, growing production costs amid almost complete absence of ...

During the past week, the prices in the national currency for longs of Bulgarian producers have not changed. However, due to the strengthening of lev rate, the prices in dollars have increased by $12-14/t. Besides, market participants said that Stomana Industry S.A. intends to raise the prices for its products again, by ...

In early July, after the major producer of long products in UAE Emirate Steel Industries (ESI) announced its prices for this month, prices in the market have increased again and import quotations have also gone up. The mill has also increased its quotations in July by $240-245/t as compared to those in June. Other mills are ...

Stable situation has been seen in Far Eastern scrap market during this week, due, first of all, to low consumer demand. The main factors behind the drop of interest to import scrap purchases include fairly high warehouses stocks amid high offer prices and a seasonal reduction of steelmaking operations ...

Thai government, pressed by construction companies, complaining of inability to complete construction projects due to the growth of material prices, continues to limit domestic prices for long steel products...

By 2011, Swiss Commercial Metals International plans to increase steelmaking capacity and pipe production at its Croatian plant CMC Sisak (former Sisak Pipe Rolling Mill) from 70,000tpy to ...

In spite of the construction season in Syria being at its height, prices for long products have gone down. Due to a very low demand from buyers and presence of considerable volumes of the last moths' output offered at...

This week business activity is still low in Turkish scrap market, as consumers have sufficient stocks. Bookings are rare, so prices have ...

By the end of the year, Turkish Ege Celik plans to ramp up its new 16-stand rebar mill to designed capacity of 500,000tpy. The mill was supplied by ...

ArcelorMittal and Bulgarian steelmaker Kremikovtzi AD has signed a tolling agreement, according to which the former will supply raw material to the...

ThyssenKrupp Compania Siderurgica do Atlantico (Brazil), a joint venture of German ThyssenKrupp (90%) and Brazilian Vale (10%) will start slabs production in ...

Prices in South Korean market continue to form in their peculiar way. Thus, despite relatively high quotations for import semis, South Korean producers are still in no hurry to reflect the general trend ...

Export quotations of Egyptian flat steel continue moving slowly up, having grown by ...

Indian Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) is going to put into operation a new open-pit mine Chikkanayakana in November ...

Late last month Russia's Vyksa Steel Works (part of OMK group) performed hot trails of the first set of equipment within the newly installed casting & rolling complex ...