Poland: ArcelorMittal launches rails manufacture

ArcelorMittal has commissioned a line to produce heat-strengthened rails with the length of 120 meters at the Dabrowa Gornica plant. The new products comply with the European and American standards. ArcelorMittal has been mulling the construction of such a line in Poland since 2012. Officially it started in 2018. In 2022, the company signed a…

Ukraine: Ukrzaliznytsia needs to resume scrap sales

Ukraine started increasing steel output and in January it grew almost 2-fold. But further growth is hampered not only by logistics, but also by the scrap shortage, that Ukrzaliznytsia could cover. This year, scrap procurement is expected to decrease due to the mined territories and mobilization. State monopolies, which constantly write off outdated equipment, could…