Steel Strip

This month (November 2007) Steel Strip Resources has passed the 100,00 views mark for the first time, in a single month.
The site is accessed form all over the world by Steel professionals, buyers, sellers, engineers and metallurgists. It has become the starting point for research in to potential suppliers of steel strip, and to the [...]

The Tata Steel group — comprising Tata Steel and Corus Group, the European steel maker it acquired in January — today took decisive steps towards integration by setting up a new organisation structure that will become effective January 1, 2008.
The new organisation structure includes an umbrella management team or “group centre” that consists of [...]

European Union regulators will probably examine a complaint by steelmakers ArcelorMittal and ThyssenKrupp AG about cheap steel imports from China, raising the specter of punitive duties, the EU’s trade chief said.
The two companies led a steelmakers lobby that last month told the European Commission cheap imports of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products from China, [...]

Spotted over on my old friend Paul "The tinbashers" blog, is this a very informative link.
Hosted by the European Stainless Steel Association, it includes many links to reference material and a downloadable pdf file.
Cheers Paul
 
Link here.
 
Technorati Tags: Stainless Steel , Inox

Spotted over on my old friend Paul "The tinbashers" blog, is this a very informative link.
Hosted by the European Stainless Steel Association, it includes many links to reference material and a downloadable pdf file.
Cheers Paul
 
Link here.
 
Technorati Tags: Stainless Steel , Inox

Steel stocks dove with the broader market Thursday, but fresh inventory data paint a rosy picture going forward.
Steel inventories at the end of October were at their lowest levels in nine years, according to data released on Thursday by the Chicago-based Metal Service Center Institute. Inventories decreased 27% from the same month last year [...]

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s biggest steelmaker, plans to raise prices in the first quarter to cover surging costs that had led to its first profit decline in more than a year last month.
Prices of benchmark hot-rolled products will increase by as much as 8 percent, or 300 yuan ($40), a metric ton [...]

The world’s steel industry yesterday declared its opposition to BHP Billiton’s ambitious proposal for a $150bn takeover of mining rival Rio Tinto.
The Brussels-based International Iron and Steel Institute, which represents many of the world’s steel makers, warned that an alliance of the two would create a near-monopoly. "This deal is not in the public interest [...]

ArcelorMittal said it will raise its prices for flat steel products in North America and European markets in 2008, citing expected increases in raw material and energy costs next year.
In the US, the steel group said will raise prices by 40 usd a tonne for strip mill products as of Jan 1, in addition to [...]

EU flat products producers are more optimistic for the first quarter of next year, hoping that escalating raw material costs will help to boost market prices. Underlying demand appears to remain quite strong. So much will depend on third country import pressure. There are some positive indications for local mills. Chinese export prices are rising. [...]