FORD AND TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN STRIKE AN AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GREEN STEEL When the IJmuiden steelworks transitions to using green hydrogen-based steelmaking, Tata Steel Nederland will start supplying Ford in Europe with Zeremis green steel. Ford will not be able to meet its...
NEW HEAD OF THE WORLD STEEL ASSOCIATION IS NAMED Jeong-woo Choi, the CEO of Posco Group, will take over as Chairman of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), spearheading a major transformation for the steel sector to become more environmentally ...
AMSA OPENS ITS NEW RAIL AND STRUCTURAL MILL ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), a manufacturer of steel, has opened its facility for ArcelorMittal Rail and Structures (AMRAS), which it just bought. The previous Highveld Structural Mill in Emalah...
IN AN AGREEMENT TO RESEARCH LOW-CARBON STEELMAKING TECHNOLOGY, THYSSENKRUPP AND ANGLO AMERICAN Anglo American, a major mining company, and Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, a dependable client, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on finding innovative ways to decarbonize the ste...
TOKYO STEEL WILL MAINTAIN THE SAME RATES IN NOVEMBER The leading producer of electric-arc furnace steel in Japan, Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd, announced that it will maintain steel product pricing in November in order to reflect poor global demand ...
IN NUEVO LEON, FRISA WILL LAUNCH A LONG STEEL ROLLING FACTORY For its first long product rolling mill, which will produce 80 tph of high-quality rounds and squares in alloy, carbon, tool, and stainless steels for various industrial applications, the top Mexican ...
AMID A STRIKE, HYUNDAI STEEL WILL CLOSE ITS COLD ROLLING FACTORY The cold rolling mills at Dangjin Steel Works in South Chungcheong Province will be shut down by Hyundai Steel for a two-week period. The supply of hot-rolled steel needed to make cold-rolled steel ha...
KENYA STEEL IMPORTS DECLINE 20% YEAR-OVER-YEAR IN Q2 2022 Due to a slowdown in the building industry, Kenya's imports of steel decreased by 20% in the second quarter of the year. According to the most recent Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) statist...
JFE SHOJI AMERICA COMPLETES THE ACQUISITION OF A STEEL-FRAME MANUFACTURING COMPANY A prominent producer of goods made of cold-formed steel frame, CEMCO, was successfully acquired by JFE Shoji America. With the same foresight and vision that helped it become one of the most significa...
H2GS COLLABORATES WITH MIDREX AND KOBE STEEL ON A GREEN STEEL INITIATIVE H2 Green Steel (H2GS), a Swedish company, is collaborating with Midrex, a global innovator in direct reduction ironmaking technology for the steel sector. Kobe Steel, the owner of Midrex, is strengthe...
DUE TO RISING ENERGY PRICES, OUTOKUMPU WILL LIMIT FERRO-CHROME OUTPUT UNTIL Q1 OF 2023 Outokumpu, a manufacturer of stainless steel in Finland, stated in a press statement that it will keep its ferro-chrome output to a minimum until the end of Q1 2023. "Since Outokumpu declared on Septe...
MARUBENI-ITOCHU STEEL PURCHASES A SIGNIFICANT UK STEEL DISTRIBUTION COMPANY The whole share capital of Barclay & Mathieson Ltd. has been purchased by Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (B&M Group). The B&M Steel, B&M Architectural, Steel Plate and Sections (SPS), Industrial Metal Ser...
