[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Brazil’s official gazette on September 14, the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) opened its investigation of antidumping against seamless unalloyed carbon steel tubes from China.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to customs data released in August, Taiwan’s hot-rolled coil exports totaled 358,474 tons in August. Among them, Taiwan exported 76,037 tons of hot rolled coils to Vietnam in August, Vietnam became Taiwan’s main hot rolled coils ...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Zhenshi group in Indonesia's subsidiary FBLN announced its ferronickel project has started production on September 16. The company will continue the construction nickel iron BF smelting line, including 350 cubic lime kiln of 1 seat, BF of 4 ...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Italy’s seamless pipe prices remained unchanged, after the summer holidays. Those for Machinery manufacturing, construction and commercial vehicles for key users seamless tube industry demand remained weak.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Finland's Outokumpu said that the company were using stainless steel slab instead of steel ingot which would significant savings in cost and materials during heavy forging process.

[Ferro-alloys.com] It is reported that Turkey producers, Isdemir announced to idle its steel wire plant at Iskenderun for a month for maintenance plans.

According to data released by China Iron & Steel Association (CISA), the country’s daily crude steel output averaged at 1.603 million tons in late July.

According to the data from Brazil’s trade ministry, Brazil’s iron ore exports to China dropped by 2.2% in July to 15.9 million tons compared to the same month a year ago.