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Steel: SSAB reports an improvement in shipments
Swedish steel producer SSAB expects shipments to increase in a more stable market in the first quarter. Steel mills benefited from sustained demand for much of last year, but experienced a significant slowdown in the second half of the year in Europe, the region...
Steel: US Steel Kosice BF restart worries EU operators
Slovakia-based integrated steelmaker US Steel Kosice (USSK) has restarted a second blast furnace (BF) at its Kosice plant. A company spokesman confirmed earlier this week the restart of the BF2, which has a capacity of 1.8 million tonnes of pig iron per year, after...
Acciaierie d’Italia announces production targets for 2023 and 2024
Italian steel producer Acciaierie d'Italia aims to produce 4 million tonnes of crude steel in 2023 and 5 million tonnes in 2024. Lucia Morselli, the company's CEO, said that an increase in production is planned at the Genoa rolling mill. The company will also...
Pig iron: Turkish imports up in January-November 2022
In November last year, Turkish pig iron imports amounted to 85,472 tonnes, down 46.8% year-on-year and up 62.7% year-on-year in October, according to data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The total value of pig iron imports into Turkey in the...