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Planned Outage Impacts Quarterly Production At EVRAZ North America

19 July 2017 - EVRAZ North America's crude steel production fell 8.3% between the first and second quarters of 2017 on account of a project outage.

SMS Delivers Caster to New Billet Plant

19 July 2017 - SMS Concast has supplied a 6-strand caster to a greenfield steel plant in the Iranian province of Yazd, the company said Wednesday.

Imposing Section 232 Measures Could Start Trade War, Critics Say

18 July 2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump is being warned that he could wind up instigating a trade war and upending the global trading system if he imposes restrictions on steel imports in the name of national security, reports The Hill newspaper.

Welded Tube Manufacturer Acquiring Ohio Company

17 July 2017 - Ohio-based Phillips Tube Group is acquiring another Ohio welded tube manufacturer and consolidating operations into its current facilities, reports The (Lisbon, Ohio) Morning Journal.

Commissioning Underway on New PCI Units at Russian Blast Furnaces

17 July 2017 - Blast furnace specialist Paul Wurth and Russia’s NLMK Group have begun commissioning new pulverized coal injection units at the steelmaker’s Lipetsk works.

Polytec Wins Order for Meltshop Robots

17 July 2017 - Two European steelmakers have awarded contracts to industrial robotics manufacturer Polytec S.r.l. to automate production steps.

Chinese Steelmaker Puts Fives Bar Straightener on Order

17 July 2017 - Russian equipment manufacturer Fives has won an order for a Bronx straightening machine from Baosteel Special Metals Shaoguan in China.

Trump: Maybe I'll Set Both Steel Tariffs and Quotas

13 July 2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump said he might impose both tariffs and quotas on steel imports to keep volumes of foreign steel in check.

Economists To Trump: Don't Impose Section 232 Steel Tariffs

12 July 2017 - A group of economists who all served as U.S. presidential advisers are warning that new restrictions on imported steel could harm relationships with allies and damage the economy.

Report: No Deal Yet on Closed Wire Rod Mill Acquisition

11 July 2017 - The sale of an American wire rod mill remains on hold while the buyer continues to seek financial incentives from the state of South Carolina, reports The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier.

Kobe Steel Completes Expansion of Wire Rod Processing Plant

11 July 2017 - Kobe Special Steel Wire Products (Pinghu) Co. Ltd. has started up new pickling unit at its cold-heading quality wire plant in the Chinese province of Zhejiang.

Galvanizer Plans South Carolina Facility

11 July 2017 - A fabricated steel products galvanizer plans to build a US$14.1 million facility in South Carolina, the South Carolina Department of Commerce said on Tuesday.

Liberty House Acquires Two Tata Pipe Mills

11 July 2017 - Metals entrepreneur Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty House Group has reached a deal to acquire two large-diameter pipe mills from Tata Steel U.K.

EUROFER Upbeat on Steel's Prospects for Remainder of Year

11 July 2017 - The European Union’s first-quarter apparent steel consumption rose 3.1% year-over-year and is expected to grow through the remainder of 2017, but U.S. steel trade policies could have “disastrous” consequences, according to EUROFER, the European Steel Association.

Steel Distributor Expands Processing Capabilities

11 July 2017 - Stainless and specialty alloy distributor United Performance Metals has installed a new edging line at its Hamilton, Ohio, USA, headquarters and has added edging and slitting capabilities to its La Mirada, Calif., facility, the company has announced.

Nucor Takes Home Volkswagen Honors

11 July 2017 - Volkswagen has recognized Nucor Corp. as a top supplier, presenting the steelmaker with the Volkswagen Group Award 2017.

European Union Prepared to Launch Retaliatory Trade Measures at U.S.

07 July 2017 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reiterated promises that the E.U. would retaliate against the U.S. if it moves to impose new unilateral steel import restrictions.

British Steel Blast Furnace Knocked Off-Line

07 July 2017 - A technical problem has forced British Steel to shut down one of its two operating blast furnaces, reports news and pricing service Platts.

AK Steel: Acquisition Will Bring It Even Closer to Auto Customers

07 July 2017 - AK Steel’s announced acquisition of tooling and stamped components manufacturer Precision Partners will give the steelmaker a fully integrated downstream platform, one that will allow for closer collaboration with its automotive customers, said AK Steel chief executive Roger Newport.

EUROFER Urges U.S. to Rethink Steel Import Strategy

06 July 2017 - With the Group of 20 summit set to begin Friday in Germany, the European Steel Association is calling on member nations to renew commitments to free and fair trade – and on the U.S. to think carefully about imposing restrictions on European steel imports.

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