A wide variety of factors have contributed to “a really shaky period” in international trade, delegates heard at the 86th meeting of Irepas, the International Rebar Producers & Exporters Association, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 29-31, 2022

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 Malaysian government wants more time to make a preliminary determination on an anti-dumping investigation relating to rebar imported from China and South Korea.

Exporters of steel scrap have continued to explore alternative destination markets for sales of deep-sea scrap cargoes because of the slump in prices in Turkey, sources said in the week ended Friday June 24

Growing uncertainty about end-user demand and input costs through 2022 has driven a change in consumer habits in Europe’s aluminium and steel markets, with traders foreseeing a continuation of hand-to-mouth buying going into 2023

Global rebar demand will reach record levels in 2018-19, supported by growth in the construction sector, particularly in developed economies and across Asia, according to Celsa Group.

The Dominican Republic government has imposed a final anti-dumping duty on imports of rebar from Spain.

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

Ahead of the annual North American Ferro-alloys conference in Chicago on September 25-27, Fastmarkets looks at some of the key factors likely to dominate vanadium contract negotiations over the coming weeks.