Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly price assessment for Algeria rebar imports, expressed in € per tonne cfr. There will be no price assessment on October 10.

Ferrous scrap prices in eastern China saw two weeks of continuous falls come to a halt as prices stabilised on a rally in rebar values.

Spot prices for imported ferrous scrap into the key Vietnamese market slipped in the week to Friday October 29, on weakening sentiment caused by sharp losses in the ferrous complex in China, sources told Fastmarkets.

Steelmakers have been using some of their windfall profits to acquire downstream businesses at a higher-than-average rate, and industry participants believe this trend will continue through 2022

Hebei Steel will begin selling rebar on an estimated weight basis from February 1.

Seaborne iron ore prices are seeing narrower 62-65% Fe spreads amid stronger preference for mid-grade fines and stable demand from buyers, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 8

Peruvian mills Aceros Arequipa and Gerdau’s Siderperú saw their combined rebar output increase by 4.8% year-on-year in the first half of 2014.

Michael Lin, special assistant to Feng Hsin Steel’s chairman, talks about the mill’s planned investments and the state of Taiwan’s steel market in this second segment of a two-part interview with Steel First.

The high price in the Russian domestic rebar price range was showing incorrectly in the database from December 24 2012 to February 4 2013. The correct range for the period is 16,280-17,960 roubles.

Russia's Industrial Metallurgical Holding (IMH) company began producing steel rebar at its new Tula-Steel subsidiary facility last week.