Integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal is taking a planned outage at one of the blast furnaces at its Burns Harbor mill.

Pakistan’s International Steels profit plunged 72% to PKR 655.6 million in the nine month period ended March 31, 2020.

On a quarterly basis, steel demand would be a washout in the first quarter of this fiscal, given the pan-India lockdown that would hurt construction.

Keetac can produce about 6 million net st of iron ore pellets each year.

ferro-alloys.com:The demand for Indian steel predictable to reduce by 7.7%

Business Recorder reported that Pakistan’s All Iron Steel Merchants Association has called for tax relief measures to safeguard the interests of the business community in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region announced Wednesday it plans to implement 890 major infrastructure projects this year, with an investment of about 130 billion yuan (about $18.41 billion).

China's foreign trade continued to fall in March, but the momentum of decline has greatly eased, indicating that the world's second-largest economy is gradually recovering from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.