Liberty Galați Restarts Blast Furnace After Week-Long Malfunction *Liberty Galați*, Romania’s only flat steel producer, has *successfully restarted blast furnace No. 5* just one week after a *technical malfunction temporarily halted operations*. The furnace, which i...
Tata Steel Targets 15 Million MT Annual Output via Recycling in Next 10–15 Years *Tata Steel Limited* is intensifying its shift toward *low-carbon steelmaking*, with plans to produce *10–15 million metric tons (mt) of steel annually through recycling* methods within the next *10–1...
China’s First-Tier New Home Prices Dip 0.2% in May, Broader Market Weakness Persists China’s housing market continued to show signs of weakness in May, with *new home prices in first-tier cities falling by 0.2% month-on-month*, according to the *National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)*. ...
China’s Daily Crude Steel Output Rises 3.2% in Early June, Inventories Also Climb The *China Iron and Steel Association (CISA)* reported a notable increase in steel production among its member mills during the first ten days of June. From *June 1 to June 10*, the *average daily cr...
Andritz Commissions Electrolyzer Plant to Power Salzgitter’s Green Steel Ambitions *Austrian industrial technology group Andritz* has announced the successful *commissioning of its new electrolyzer manufacturing plant* in *Erfurt, Germany*, marking a major milestone in its support f...
Vietnam Extends Antidumping Probe on Chinese and South Korean Galvanized Steel *Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT)* has announced a *two-month extension* to its ongoing *antidumping (AD) investigation* into *galvanized steel imports from China and South Korea*. The...
Vietnam Launches Pilot Emissions Trading System Targeting Major Polluting Sectors *Vietnam has officially launched the pilot phase of its emissions trading system (ETS)*, a significant step toward its commitment to reach *net-zero carbon emissions by 2050*, according to a report by...
U.S. Finds South Korean Steel Producers Received Subsidies in Preliminary Trade Review The *U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)* has released the *preliminary results* of its administrative review of *countervailing duties (CVD)* on *certain cut-to-length (CTL) steel plate from South Kore...
Steel Prices See Modest Dip in Early June, Says China's Commerce Ministry *China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC)* has reported a slight decline in average *finished steel prices* during the week of *June 2 to June 8*. According to the official data, the average prices of majo...
UK Launches Antidumping Investigation Into South Korean Steel Plate Imports The *UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA)* has officially opened an *antidumping investigation* into *imports of hot rolled steel plate from South Korea*, following a complaint filed by *Spartan UK Ltd...
Vietnam’s Steel Imports Slip 6.2% in May, Scrap Imports Drop Nearly 24% *Vietnam’s steel imports declined by 6.2% in May* compared to April, totaling *1.29 million metric tons (mt)*, according to newly released data from the *General Department of Customs*. Meanwhile, the...
IREPAS Flags Deepening Crisis in Global Long Steel Market as China Floods Supply The *global long steel products market is facing unprecedented oversupply and pricing pressure*, according to the latest report by *IREPAS*, the international association for producers and exporters o...
