EU rebar importers bemoan ‘hidden volumes’ at customs
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EU rebar importers bemoan ‘hidden volumes’ at customs

Published: 21 Feb 2019

The introduction of permanent safeguard measures on steel imports into the EU is causing considerable unease in the market, Kallanish hears from participants in the German rebar sector. “The new way of splitting the duty-free tonnages per quarter and per country of origin is making everything much more complex – and much more insecure,” one

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Saarstahl to open new billet caster by year-end

Published: 21 Feb 2019

Long products maker Saarstahl will be opening its new five-strand continuous casting plant at the Voelklingen site by the end of 2019, the Germany-based company said Wednesday. The Eur100 million caster will replace one that was decommissioned in 2010. Saarstahl operates a total of four continuous casting systems in the steel plant that casts crude

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Europe’s 2018 HRC imports rise nearly 20%

Published: 21 Feb 2019

EU imports of hot-rolled coil fell 18.6% month on month in December but ended 2018 up 19.3% for the year compared with 2017, Eurofer data showed. HRC imports declined 123,132 mt to 539,681 mt in December, while rising 1.3 million mt to 8.03 million mt for the full-year period. Galvanized coil imports dropped 16.9%, or

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Turkey’s 2018 coated coil exports up sharply on EU demand

Published: 20 Feb 2019

Notably higher buying interest from the European Union, particularly from Spain, supported Turkey’s coated coil export volumes in 2018. Turkish coated coil producers exported 1.33 million mt of coated coils last year, 35% higher year on year, according to the latest Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) data sent to S&P Global Platts. However, Turkey’s shipments to

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Mapudo becomes comparison portal for steel products

Published: 19 Feb 2019

German e-commerce platform Mapudo has changed its system in a way that customers now get an overview of different vendors selling the desired steel product. Mapudo, founded around three years ago in Düsseldorf, has so far worked more like an online catalogue, in which customers searched for vendors’ offers using the platform. Now, it has

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