India has tough targets when it comes to increasing the volume of steel scrap being consumed by the country’s steel sector, but to reach its targets it will have to consider the supplies of such material that are available to Indian mills, an industry conference has heard

Electrolysis processes developed by Boston Metal and Electra that eliminate the need for coal in steel production could be key to a net-zero emissions future for the metallics industry, attendees learned at Fastmarkets’ conference on January 17-19 in Dallas

Consolidation, the recycling of electric vehicle batteries, US steel exports and the benefits of sustainable steelmaking were key talking points at Fastmarkets’ Scrap & Steel 2023 conference in Dallas in January

Green shoots of increased demand will emerge in US ferrous markets courtesy of the Biden administration’s trillion-dollar infrastructure package in 2023, Schnitzer’s executive vice president and chief strategy officer Richard Peach said at Fastmarkets’ Steel and Scrap Conference 2023 in Dallas, Texas

Aligning various methodologies of calculating and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the steelmaking process has become a challenge in the push towards decarbonization of the industry, but there’s demand for aligning it

“Green steel” will not have a single definition or path to success but will vary by product and location, and will change over time, the American Iron and Steel Institute’s (AISI) top executive told Fastmarkets

Nucor Corp’s new low carbon heavy gauge steel plate product, Elcyon — to be produced at its new $1.7 billion Brandenburg, Kentucky plate mill — is designed for a planned offshore wind energy build-out on the East Coast of 30 gigawatts by 2030, according to Frank Fisher, director of energy solutions at Nucor

There is no global scrap shortage looming, the top executive at Commercial Metals Co (CMC) told a packed room at Fastmarkets’ Scrap & Steel North America 2023 event in Dallas, adding that while there is no decarbonization blueprint for the steel industry to follow, the shift to electric-arc furnace (EAF) steel production is key to meeting “green” targets

Shortages of high-grade pellet-feed iron ore concentrates and good-quality ferrous scrap such as plate and structural grades mean that direct-shipping iron ore fines are likely to remain the mainstay steelmaking raw material

The outlook for the steel plate industry in the United States is cloudy for 2023 due to three conflicting factors: more incoming supply, expectations for stronger demand and the decoupling of the plate market from hot-rolled coil prices