The veritable chaos seen in the European steel market over the past three weeks has shaken some customary relationships between product groups. The latest semi-official announcement by the market leader last week still seemed to reflect familiar price premiums. With hot rolled coil offered at €1,400/tonne ($1,548) ex-works, cold rolled coil was set at €1,500,
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Seaborne iron ore prices jumped again on Friday as Chinese mills continue to ramp up production despite slow domestic steel demand. Increasing steel export opportunities are giving mills confidence to hike production despite a slow domestic market. The Kallanish KORE 62% Fe index gained $7.57/t to $150.38/dry metric tonne cfr Qingdao. The Kallanish KORE 65%
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Czech domestic steel production in 2021 was able to offset losses from the previous year due to a huge increase in demand in the first half of the year. Crude steel output rose 9% on-year to 4.7 million tonnes, exceeding 2019 production. Long and flat steel output totalled 3.1mt and 1.1mt respectively. Pipe output recorded
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Salzgitter is regrouping its business activities, effective 1 April, Kallanish learns from the German company. Steelmaking and processing activities are to be reconstituted under the new “Steel Production” and “Steel Processing” business units, respectively, “in line with value-added and customer requirements”, Salzgitter states. “The subsidiaries essentially participating in our SALCOS (SAlzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) programme are to
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The Spanish steel sector has expressed concern over road transport disruption that has persisted since Monday and is seriously impacting the steel industry, Kallanish notes. Most large domestic logistics companies stopped their services at the beginning of the week due to higher oil and gas prices. Transport associations are not accepting strike action and have called for
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