TASR reported that labour unionists delivered a petition signed by employees of US Steel Kosice to Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini urging the Government to take action to help save steel industry jobs in both Slovakia and Europe. The petition was launched at US Steel Kosice on July 22. OZ KOVO company labour union head Juraj…
Brazilian slab export prices remained unchanged in the week ended Friday September 20, with no deals agreed while buyers and sellers battled to establish a new price. Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessment for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil, was $420-435 per tonne on September 20, unchanged week-on-week. The price corresponded to the most recent…
WA reported that Australia’s largest steel company BlueScope in 2013 elevated Mr Jason Ellis, the son of former BHP chairman Mr Jerry Ellishim from a regional divisional manager in Thailand to one of the most senior positions in the company the general manager of sales and marketing. Within months of assuming his position, one that…
SHANGHAI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) – Steel futures opened lower Friday in daytime trading on the Shanghai Futures Exchange. The most active construction steel rebar contract for January delivery was down 66 yuan (about 9.33 U.S. dollars) to open at 3,381 yuan a tonne. The most active January 2020 contract for hot rolled coils, mainly used…
Prices for imported flat-rolled steel in South America were mostly down in the week to Friday September 20, given a continuing global downtrend and low demand from the region. Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel hot-rolled coil import, cfr main ports South America, at $490-500 per tonne on September 20, down from $500-515 per tonne…
For the first time in over 50 years of cooperation, Primetals Technologies and Tata Steel Europe have commissioned a Level 2 system for a continuous caster completely online. In mid-July 2019, the newsystem from Primetals Technologies successfully replaced the existing automation on continuous casterCC21 of Tata Steel Europe in IJmuiden, the Netherlands. At the same…
Indian steel industry is facing some challenges amid the ongoing trade war between the US and China, according to Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The minister also noted that the global steel industry is facing the challenge of surplus production. Pradhan was interacting with reporters on the sidelines of two-day International Galvanising Conference event here.…
CIS producers of steel billet have kept their offer prices stable despite mounting downward pressure from the poor international scrap trading environment and limited demand, market sources told Fastmarkets on Friday September 20. Fastmarkets’ daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $357 per tonne on September 20, compared with $356 per tonne…
