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Global Steel Weekly: worldsteel turns flat, EU mills restart 10 Mt and gas hits a 2022 high (week ending 16 October 2026)
Weekly round-up to 16 October 2026: worldsteel sees flat 2026 demand, EUROFER reports about 10 Mt of EU capacity restarted, EU HRC…
Iron ore, coking coal and scrap: how raw material costs feed through to finished steel prices
A blast furnace needs about 1.4 t of iron ore and 0.8 t of coal per tonne of steel; an EAF needs…
EAF versus blast furnace: what the two routes mean for emissions, costs and the green steel premium
EAFs make about 30% of the world's steel at around 0.7 t CO₂ per tonne, against 2.3 t for blast furnaces. What…
Global Steel Weekly: Taranto halts, EU quotas bite and CBAM costs climb (week ending 9 October 2026)
Weekly round-up to 9 October 2026: Taranto's hot end halts, Q4 EU quotas fill, the Q3 CBAM price rises to €82.32 and…
Scrap and iron ore send soft signals: Turkish HMS stalls near $400/t as seaborne ore slips below $90
Turkish scrap stalled at about $400/t CFR in September and seaborne 61% Fe ore fell to $89.20/dmt on 9 October. A draft…
Capacity watch: Taranto’s hot end halts as Europe’s green-steel pipeline splits between go-aheads and delays
Acciaierie d'Italia halted Taranto's hot end on 9 October. Košice approved a new EAF, Stegra needs capital and Tata Steel Nederland delayed…
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ArcelorMittal says it cannot restart Kryvyi Rih after four missile strikes, expects $1 billion impairment
ArcelorMittal says it cannot safely restart Kryvyi Rih after four missile strikes in five weeks, and expects a non-cash impairment of about…
Salzgitter shuts HKM Blast Furnace A in Duisburg as pig iron output falls to about 3 Mt
Salzgitter's HKM permanently shut Blast Furnace A in Duisburg after 53 years. Pig iron falls to about 3 Mt this year and…
Hyundai Steel and POSCO start building $5.8 billion EAF sheet mill in Louisiana
Hyundai Steel, POSCO, Hyundai Motor and Kia launched a $5.8 billion Louisiana EAF-based mill, targeting 2.7 Mt a year of automotive sheet…