The European steel industry faces three major challenges, following the impacts of the COVID-19 global and the 2008-09 financial crisis, management consultancy McKinsey & Company stated. “European steel producers should consider making a series of short-term operational and medium- to long- term strategic moves to ensure economic and environmental sustainability going forward,” McKinsey said in […]
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Tight supply continues to push hot rolled coil prices upward in Western Europe
Continued tight supply for hot rolled coil in Western Europe has further pushed up prices for the flat product over the past 10 days. Sign up today for Gunpowder, MetalMiner’s free, biweekly e-newsletter featuring news, analysis and more. Hot rolled coil heats up Some producers’ offer prices from late last week are now at least […]
Hot rolled coil prices continue to surge in Western Europe
A lack of local availability, plus anti-dumping measures on some third-country imports into the European Union, have further pushed up hot rolled coil prices in Western Europe. Hot rolled coil price surge Offers for the flat rolled product from Western European mills are now €850-900 ($1,015-$1,070) per tonne ex works for May rolling and June […]
What are ArcelorMittal’s prospects in the US after its Cleveland-Cliffs deal?
ArcelorMittal has strong prospects in the United States. This is even after the group sold in 2020 almost 14 million tons of integrated crude capacity to Cleveland-Cliffs. “It is one of the major steel markets, even though many steel plants in the United States have shut down in the past 10 years,” one analyst said. […]
ThyssenKrupp ends talks with Liberty Steel over potential steel unit takeover
ThyssenKrupp has ended discussions with London-based Liberty Steel over the potential sale of the German conglomerate’s steel unit. The parent company made the announcement Wednesday evening, Feb. 17. “We opened the door for negotiations, but in the end our ideas about the corporate value and the structure of the transaction were far apart,” ThyssenKrupp Chief […]
ArcelorMittal steel output drops by one-fifth in 2020
Impacts from the COVID pandemic and asset sales saw ArcelorMittal report a 20.4% decline in its crude steel production in 2020. “The countries worst affected by COVID were the ones that saw drops in their production,” one industry watcher added about lower production at the group’s assets in Europe, Brazil and the United States. ArcelorMittal […]
Crude steel production at Evraz’s North American assets drops 15.1%
Crude steel production at Evraz’s North American assets dropped 15.1% year over year in 2020. The drop was due mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the global economy, the Russian group noted. Evraz output in North America drops Production for the 12 months totaled 1.58 million metric tons from slightly over 1.86 million tons […]
West Europe HRC under pressure on higher availability, Lunar New Year
Prices for hot rolled coil in Western Europe appear to be moving away from increases seen in late 2020, as steelmakers there and in Central Europe restart their own crude production and the Lunar New Year in China approaches, market sources told MetalMiner. “It looks they are more decreasing, rather than rising,” one trader said. […]
SSAB walks away from prospective IJmuiden acquisition
Swedish steelmaker SSAB has ended discussions with India’s Tata Steel over potential acquisition of IJmuiden plant, or Tata Steel Netherlands, the Stockholm-headquartered group stated Jan. 29. “After deeper analysis and discussions, it became clear that there were limited possibilities to integrate IJmuiden into the SSAB strategic framework,” SSAB said in a statement. “Discussions with Tata […]
ACEA: COVID, buyer confidence strike E.U.’s 2020 passenger vehicle registrations
New passenger automobile registrations in the European Union fell by almost a quarter in 2020, due directly to the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. “Indeed, containment measures – including full‐scale lockdowns and other restrictions throughout the year – had an unprecedented impact on car sales across the European Union,” the Brussels-based […]
