World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) fell 7% year on year in June 2020.

Taiwanese buyers bid lower for imported containerized ferrous scrap over the past week, but were largely unsuccessful in halting price gains.

Adjusted steel safeguard measures in Europe, combined with new trade cases, will limit availability of imported hot-rolled coil and support domestic prices.

China has become the savior of the global steel market, with its big appetite and high domestic prices supporting the international ferrous supply chain amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nordic Kraft, set to ramp up production at a long-idle 300,000 tonnes/yr northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) market pulp mill in Lebel-sur-Quévillon (LSQ), QC, by late August to early September, will have Domtar sell its pulp output, industry contacts told Fastmarkets RISI. Nordic Kraft is a former Domtar mill that’s now owned by Chantiers Chibougamau, […]

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A summary of the steel segment of South Korean mill Posco’s earnings report for the second-quarter ended June 30, released on Tuesday July 21.

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With effect from September 2020, Random Lengths is proposing to simplify the process for calculating monthly averages. Monthly averages appear in the Random Lengths weekly publication and in Yardstick. Currently they are calculated using the ISO 8601 rule, whereby the first week of the year is the week containing the first Thursday. In determining monthly […]

Fastmarkets is proposing to change to the specification of its weekly steel hot-rolled coil export, fob main port Turkey, $/tonne price assessment.