Bearishness lingers in China’s ferrous market despite price rises seen for some steel products in recent days, market participants told Fastmarkets in the week to Wednesday September 11

Colombian steelmakers conditioned the viability of building the country's first flat steel plant on the adoption of trade defense measures against imports, the companies said on Friday, September 6.

The willingness among steel consumers to pay premiums for ‘green’ products was not enough to offset the extra cost of the technology transition in the short term, according to Dr Karel Eloot, senior partner in the global materials insights department of management consultant McKinsey & Co.

Here are the key takeaways from market participants on scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our September survey

Fastmarkets launched a price assessment for MB-STE-0920 steel sections (light and medium), S235-SS400, import, cfr Jebel Ali, UAE on Wednesday September 4.

As the country moves to make the quota tariff against steel imports work, concerns are growing within the Brazilian steel industry over a potential surge in imports of finished steel products, particularly fastening materials such as screws, nails, bolts and wires, which could impact the entire supply chain, sources have told Fastmarkets.

Nippon Steel doubled down on its promised billion-dollar-plus capex investment promise to US Steel on Wednesday August 28, drawing the ire of the United Steel Workers (USW) labor union..

Fastmarkets' daily price for hot-rolled coil in the US Midwest was published early on Friday August 23 due to an error.

Brazil’s adoption earlier this year of trade defense strategies to manage the acquisition of imported steel prompted local traders and importers to look into adding boron to some materials, so as to avoid extra tariffs, domestic sources have told Fastmarkets.

The global steel industry is currently grappling between decarbonizing at higher costs while still attempting to maintain cost competitiveness with traditional blast furnace-based production methods, sources told Fastmarkets.