“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

Positive feedback has spurred Aurubis to expand its investment in the United States and examine growth opportunities globally within its core business and in new fields

An abundance of quietly transacted higher-priced deals on ferrous scrap and a recovery in hot-rolled coil prices have been fueling expectations of a strong kick-off to the year in the January 2023 trade

The Gulf states are entering a “golden age” for steelmaking and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries aim to be at the forefront of the global drive to “green steel,” delegates were told at Fastmarkets’ Middle East Iron & Steel Conference in Dubai on Tuesday December 13

Oman-based long products steelmaker Jindal Shadeed Iron & Steel Oman plans to invest more than $3 billion to build a green steel plant in Oman, the company said on Sunday December 4

Brazil-based Gerdau will invest up to 1.5 billion Reais ($277 million) in solar and wind power projects by acquiring a third of energy generation and commercialization company Newave Energia, advancing its decarbonization goals, the steelmaker said on Friday November 25