Metallurgy news

• India's Steel Ministry has completed consultations on low utilization of pellet plants The Indian Ministry of Steel has completed consultations with key industry stakeholders to address the low workload of domestic iron ore pellet plants, a government official said on Tuesday, October 21.According to the official, the discussions were aimed at solving the problem of the consistently... 21.10.2025  17:00

• Voestalpine warns of €2bn cost rise without EU carbon cap extension Ahead of the European Council meeting on October 23, Austrian steel company Voestalpine joined nearly 80 industrial companies in calling on the EU to extend free carbon credits under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).In a joint letter to EU policymakers, the companies warned that ending the... 21.10.2025  16:00

• Ukrainian Interpipe has maintained production volumes of pipe products for the second quarter of 2025 Interpipe, a Ukrainian manufacturer of steel pipes and railway wheels, announced operating results for the second quarter and the first half of this year.In the quarter, the company produced 133,000 tons of billets, compared with 218,000 tons in the second quarter of 2024, while pipe production was... 21.10.2025  16:00

• Ukrainian Kametstal begins construction of a new gas collector BF The Kametstal metallurgical plant, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian mining and metallurgical group Metinvest, has begun large-scale construction of a new blast furnace gas reservoir as part of the 2025 investment program. The project is designed to replace aging infrastructure, improve process... 21.10.2025  15:00

• Exports of semi-finished products from China decreased by 15% in September compared to August, but are unlikely to fall much further from 1.5 million tons. According to the Chinese customs authorities, in September of this year, exports of semi-finished products from China amounted to 1.4936 million tons, which is 15.34 percent less month-on-month, and an increase of 41.85 percent year-on-year.Prices for ex-Chinese bullion fluctuated at a fairly high... 21.10.2025  15:00

• The EBRD has outlined a path for industrial decarbonization of Turkey worth more than $70 billion by 2053 During a presentation at the second seminar of the Istanbul Sabanci University Policy Center on October 17, Muharrem Ashkin, Director of Regional Policy and Strategy at the European Bank for Regional Development (EBRD), described in detail the roadmap for the Turkish Industrial Decarbonization... 21.10.2025  14:00

• ERG to build HBI plant in Kazakhstan worth $ 1.2 billion jointly with Primetals and Midrex The international metallurgical and mining company Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has signed a contract with the British manufacturer Primetals Technologies and the developer of direct recovery technologies Midrex Technologies for the operational design and supply of equipment for the... 21.10.2025  14:00

• Rio Tinto accelerates preparations for first shipment of Simandou Australian miner Rio Tinto has stockpiled about two million tonnes of high-grade iron ore at its Simandou project in Guinea in preparation for its first shipment scheduled for mid-November, according to Reuters.Implications for infrastructure and supplyThe Simandou project contains an estimated... 21.10.2025  13:00

• The sale of the Uzbek coal enterprise OJSC "Shargunkomir" has been opened Sale of 99.55% of the state share in the authorized capital.Shargunkumir JSC is one of the leading coal mining enterprises in Uzbekistan, specializing in underground coal mining in the Surkhandarya region.Production capacity - 900,000 tons per year.Actual production volume (2024 g.) - 900 thousand... 21.10.2025  12:00

• China's real estate investment fell 13.9 percent in January-September 2025 Between January and September this year, total real estate investment in China was 6.7706 trillion yuan (US$0.95 trillion), down 13.9 percent from the previous year, 1.0 percentage point faster than the decline recorded in the first eight months of this year, China's National Bureau of Statistics... 21.10.2025  11:00