Tanzania’s steel and plastics firm Lodhia Group is putting up the country’s first billets plant. According to Lodhia Group managing director Mr Sailesh Pandit, the plant will help meet the high demand for billets in Tanzania and neighbouring countries besides helping fight off under valued, under declared and substandard steel imports from South Africa that…
Reduced volumes of Chinese-produced steel have been going into the country’s export markets throughout 2019 so far. So why is it that steel product prices remain under pressure in other global markets? According to China’s General Administration of Customs, in July 2019 the East Asian country exported 5.57 million tonnes of steel, including both semi-finished…
While US steel selling values continue to be amongst the highest in the world, domestic steelmakers have lost a large part of the pricing gains they secured in late 2017/early 2018. It is widely accepted that US steel producers capitalised initially, on the speculation, and then the implementation of strong import protection measures, in March,…
Metalloinvest, a leading global producer and supplier of HBI and iron ore products, and one of the regional producers of high-quality steel, has updated its Development Strategy. The Strategy aims to allow the Company to maintain the leading position in the metals and mining industry and continuously enhance the Company’s efficiency. In 2015, Metalloinvest announced…
China’s monthly crude steel output fell for a second straight month in July, official data showed on Wednesday, as steel mills trimmed output amid heightened environmental measures and record raw material prices. The world’s top steelmaker produced 85.22 million tonnes of crude steel last month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed, down…
Steel & Tube Holdings Limited made good progress on its business turnaround programme in FY19, although positive gains were offset by lower than expected gross margin performance due to market contraction in some high value categories and a highly competitive market. Revenues were $498.1 million, earnings before interest and tax was $16.8 million and net…
Chinese output of hot metal, crude steel and finished steel all fell on a month-on-month basis in July amid weakening demand and steelmaking restrictions in the country’s production hub in northern China. Demand in China’s domestic market weakened last month amid bad weather – heavy rain in some regions and sweltering heat in most of…
Worldwide crude stainless steel production, in 2018, reached an all-time high total of more than 50.7 million tonnes. This represents an increase of 5.5 percent, compared with the year earlier figure. MEPS predicts that global output will grow by approximately 4 percent, in 2019, to achieve a new record high mark of around 52.7 million…
