Metallurgy news

• CRC imports to Turkey increased by 40.8% in January-October 2025 According to preliminary data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in October of this year, imports of cold-rolled coils (CRC) to Turkey amounted to 86,242 metric tons, which is 0.3 percent less than in September and 63.9 percent more year-on-year. Meanwhile, the value of these... 10.12.2025  11:00

• Luciano Giua: Sluggish demand, high energy costs and a surge in imports threaten the European steel market At the 20th SteelOrbis conference "New Horizons in Steel Markets", held on Tuesday, December 9, at the Marriott Asia Hotel in Istanbul, Luciano Giua, economist and policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), presented an overview of the situation on the... 10.12.2025  11:00

• India's GPIL begins production at new pelletizing plant India's Godavari Power and Ispat limited (GPIL) has commenced production at its new two million tonne iron ore pellet plant in the central state of Chhattisgarh, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, December 10.With the start of production at the new plant, GPIL's total annual pellet... 10.12.2025  10:00

• Retail car sales in India by all categories increased by 2% in November 2025 Car sales in India, indicated by new registrations of all categories, were tentatively estimated at 3.3 million units in November 2025, an increase of 2.14 percent year-on-year, according to data released by the Federation of Indian Automobile Dealers (FADA) on Wednesday, December 10.However,... 10.12.2025  10:00

• Inventories of key finished steel products in China fell by 4.4% at the end of November 2025. China's headline producer price index fell 2.2 percent year-on-year in November, while it rose 0.1 percent month-on-month. Also in November, Chinese industrial producer prices fell 2.5 percent year-on-year and rose 0.1 percent from October this year.Between January and November this year, China's... 10.12.2025  09:00

• The Chinese steel industry producer price index decreased by 7.9 percent in January-November 2025. In November of this year, the producer price index (PPI) in the ferrous metals smelting and rolling sector in China decreased by 5.2 percent year-on-year, 0.7 percentage points faster than the rate of decline recorded in October, although it decreased by 0.5 percent month-on-month, according to... 10.12.2025  09:00

• India's JSW Steel expects a 5% increase in steel production in November 2025 Indian company JSW Steel Limited achieved crude steel production of 2.439 million tons in November 2025, which is five percent more than in the corresponding month of the previous year, according to the company's statement on Tuesday, December 9.The company reported crude steel output of 2.361... 09.12.2025  18:00

• SAIL's IISCO plant handed over the BF project to the Danieli Corus consortium, marking the start of the expansion Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India limited's (SAIL) IISCO steel plant has awarded a contract to build its first blast furnace (BF) to a consortium led by Daniel Corus, marking the start of a $5.08 billion modernization project, the company said in a statement on Tuesday,... 09.12.2025  17:00

• New Horizons Expert Group: CBAM will affect global demand for scrap At the second session of the 20th SteelOrbis Conference "New Horizons in Steel Markets", held on Tuesday, December 9, in Istanbul, during a panel discussion moderated by Aycha Ozbai, global ferrous scrap market Analyst at SteelOrbis, the panelists commented on the current situation in the scrap... 09.12.2025  17:00

• Ilva commissioners demand damages from ArcelorMittal in the amount of 5 billion euros Special commissioners of the former Ilva factories, now Acciaierie d'Italia (ADI), located in Taranto in southern Italy, plan to file a lawsuit against ArcelorMittal in order to receive compensation in the amount of 5 billion euros. This step was announced by Italian Minister of Enterprises and... 09.12.2025  16:00