Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil (HRC) in Europe continued to rise on Friday April 23, due to a persistent shortage of locally produced material, limited and costly overseas alternatives and strong demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe at ?,?971.25 ($1,168.26) per tonne on April 23, up by ?,?6.25 per tonne fr...Read More
Import prices for steel hot-rolled coil in the key Vietnamese market increased greatly in the week to Friday April 23 amid strong demand from buyers and continual rises in offers from Indian steel mills, market participants have told Fastmarkets.Indian steel mills raised their offers at least once during the week, to $960-980 per tonne cfr Vietnam from an initial $950-955 per tonne cfr Vietnam. Th...Read More
Indian secondary billet prices fell by 1,600 rupees ($21) per tonne during the week to Friday April 23 on subdued demand from finished product makers, market sources said."There is a shortage of industrial oxygen all over the country because oxygen is being prioritized for medical use [for treatment of Covid-19]," an official from an integrated billet mill told Fastmarkets. Read More
A Polish subsidiary of US steelmaker Commercial Metals Company (CMC) is likely to commission a new wire rod mill in the second quarter 2021, several sources told Fastmarkets on April 23.Sources that spoke to Fastmarkets expect CMC's long products facility in Zawiercie, Poland to commission a new 200,000-tonne-per-year capacity wire rod facility during the second quarter of 2021."CMC Zawierice will...Read More
The domestic steel rebar market in Poland was broadly stable over the week to Friday April 23, despite local steelmakers' attempts to increase prices, Fastmarkets heard.All local rebar producers were reported to have sold out of their April-rolling rebar, market participants told Fastmarkets. Celsa Huta Ostrowiec was said to have almost finished May-rolling bookings and tested the market with fres...Read More
Global steel scrap markets began to revive with growing downstream demand for finished steel in the week to Friday April 23. But regional prices diverged over the period, with Turkish buyers securing scrap at lower levels while Asian importers had to contend with price increases.Mills in Turkey secured cheaper European scrap to feed increased rebar exportsUnited States sales were on hold, with exp...Read More
Pig iron export prices from Brazil increased further during the week to Friday April 23 with demand both in the United States and in the local market.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, export, fob port of Vitoria/Rio, Brazil, was $540-545 per tonne on Friday, widening upward from $540 per tonne the previous week.Read More
No deals were heard to have taken place in the Turkish scrap import market on Friday April 23, with activity quiet because of the Children's Day public holiday in Turkey.A third booking from Wednesday came to light on Friday, however, which resulted in Fastmarkets' indices edging down slightly.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a Baltic Sea cargo consisting of 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (8...Read More
Brazilian export prices for steel slab went up for the third consecutive week on Friday April 23 when local mills raised their offers, mainly to the United States, and were aiming for higher prices in other regions, including the domestic market.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil, at $880-900 per tonne on Friday, up by $10 per tonne from $870-890 per tonne...Read More
Chinese buyers resumed imports of steel billet over the past week, underpinned by strong long steel demand in the domestic market, sources said on Friday April 23.Chinese exporters raised their long steel offers over the past fortnight amid worries that the country's export rebate of 13% on such materials will be removed, with prices jumping to hit the highest levels since October 2008.The strong...Read More
European ferro-titanium producers are increasingly looking for feedstock alternatives, such as vacuum scrap, to tackle weaker alloy bid prices from consumers in the steel sector. Some producers have been switching more of their intake of smelting feed to make alloy, using higher quality vacuum scrap, after turnings prices jumped by almost 65% since the start of the year. Turnings scrap has been in...Read More
China's exports of major steel products rose significantly in March on a year-on-year basis due to the attractive prices for Chinese materials in January and February, when most March shipments were booked.For instance, exports of hot-rolled coil totaled 1.78 million tonnes last month, an increase of 92% year on year, according to Chinese customs data. Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel hot-r...Read More
Vale was authorized by environmental regulators of the southeastern Rio de Janeiro state to maintain activities at its Gua?-ba Island iron ore terminal in Mangaratiba, after the local city hall ordered it to be suspended, the company said on Thursday April 22.Early on Thursday, Vale announced that it had been notified of a temporary stoppage order for the terminal issued by the Mangaratiba municip...Read More
Tata Steel has filed a lawsuit against Liberty Steel over its speciality steel business deal made in 2017, Fastmarkets heard on Thursday April 22.A Tata Steel spokesperson confirmed the company has filed a commercial court claim against Liberty Steel concerning the speciality steel division deal, however, the spokesperson declined to go into more details because this is an active case.Liberty Stee...Read More
Brazilian export prices for steel slab went up for the third consecutive week on Friday April 23 when local mills raised their offers, mainly to the United States, and were aiming for higher prices in other regions, including the domestic market.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil, at $880-900 per tonne on Friday, up by $10 per tonne from $870-890 per tonne...Read More
Global steel scrap markets began to revive with growing downstream demand for finished steel in the week to Friday April 23. But regional prices diverged over the period, with Turkish buyers securing scrap at lower levels while Asian importers had to contend with price increases.Mills in Turkey secured cheaper European scrap to feed increased rebar exportsUnited States sales were on hold, with exp...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' Friday April 23 pricing sessions in China, Europe, India and the United States.China General sentiment in the Chinese ferro-silicon market remained positive after Ningxia issued committed to conserving energy, reducing emissions, upgrading environmental facilities and weeding out outdated production facilities; supporters broadly held their ...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael Greenfield in...Read More
European ferro-titanium producers are increasingly looking for feedstock alternatives, such as vacuum scrap, to tackle weaker alloy bid prices from consumers in the steel sector. Some producers have been switching more of their intake of smelting feed to make alloy, using higher quality vacuum scrap, after turnings prices jumped by almost 65% since the start of the year. Turnings scrap has been in...Read More
Space debris is poised to be the next frontier of recycling even while more companies attempt to make low Earth orbit safer for space industrial ecosystems. Space scrap will feed these industrial ecosystems and act as the raw material feedstock for any advanced space manufacturing systems, such as 3D printing, Airbus' in-space manufacturing and assembly roadmap owner Christophe Figus told Fastmark...Read More