IntroductionIn today’s rapidly evolving steel sector, partnering with steel industry management consultants can provide significant competitive advantages. Fr… Read More

 In today’s competitive steel industry, efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability are more important than ever. For steelmakers looking to optimize their pr… Read More

  Find new Suppliers with Steelonthenet.com's Industry Maps Interested in new steel suppliers? Steelonthenet.com offers an easy way to explore the world of steel production with our s… Read More

 Looking for the latest insights on mergers and acquisitions in the steel industry? Visit our comprehensive steel M&A database at Steelonthenet.com. Whether you're tracking rec… Read More

  Technology changes in the steel industry tend to be incremental rather than radical. Yet product changes based on the use of new raw materials can offer cost competitive substitutes… Read More

We have added a page on the history of CMC to our website knowledge base. See a href="https://www.steelonthenet.com/kb/history-cmc.html">History of Commercial Metals Companya>.br>bl… Read More

Our 2022 steel market outlook for global steel prices has just been published. This document describes our views on the expected price of steel in world markets for 2002-2023, in the context… Read More

There is much talk at present of the marked increases in world iron ore prices, in the last 12 months.However, we notice that blast furnace coke prices have also increased very dramatically… Read More

Launch of Metal Expert Witness Litigation Support Service: MCI announces launch of expert witness litigation support service for clients involved in metal and mining sector legal disputes.Th… Read More

We have launched a new newsfeed listing the latest hydrogen steelmaking news.Learn all about the first steps toward fossil-free iron production, read about the latest developments with Hybri… Read More

 London, U.K. – April 2nd, 2020 Metals Consulting International Limited (MCI), the independent iron and steel sector management consulting firm, today announces the merger of its… Read More

London, U.K. – April 2nd, 2020 Metals Consulting International Limited (MCI), the independent iron and steel sector management consulting firm, today announces the merger of its advis… Read More

We have prepared historical profiles for ~25 leading steelmakers including ArcelorMittal, Baowu, British Steel, Evraz, Gerdau, IMIDRO, JFE Steel and Liberty House Group. This list also inclu… Read More

Working  with a group of mathematicians from ExMetrix, we have combined efforts to produce long-term steel price and raw material cost forecasts through to the year 2030. The projection… Read More

Have you visited our website recently? Why not check out our steel industry news and information portal at https://www.steelonthenet.com for steel news, steel prices, steel cost models, free… Read More

Our analysts have put together a steel industry suppliers page. This identifies steel associations, consultants, distributors, electrode suppliers, equipment supply firms etc.Under equipment… Read More

Do site visitors consider that now may be the time to impose another D'Avignon steel plan in Europe? Closure of a significant proportion of EU steel capacity with better capacity utilisation… Read More

The Steelonthenet.com team have just launched a sister website, called Steelexpertwitness.com.The new service (operated by Metals Consulting International Limited) offers clients technical a… Read More

Have you tried out our new ChatBot? Our ChatBot [called SteelBot] is a new automated service that can answer a lot of questions about the products and services that we offer.Why not give S… Read More

Ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the three largest steel producers have been China, Japan and the US. Before China secured the top slot in 1996, the largest producer… Read More

So far this year, Chinese crude steel production has been racing upwards and if the 6% growth seen so far continues to the end of the year, the country will have produced more than 851 mi… Read More

The web team at Steelonthenet.com have launched a steel industry message board at http://forum.steelonthenet.com. Site visitors may post news, event information, recruitment info, classifi… Read More

When compared to its larger Asian neighbours, Vietnam is a relative minnow in terms of its steel market but it is also the fastest growing in the region. In the five years to 2016, appare… Read More

We are often asked: what is the price of steel?For historic world prices, visit us at http://www.steelonthenet.com/[email protected] Read More

Global crude steel production mid-way through 2017 was 4.5% higher than in the first 6 months of the previous year. Despite much talk about cuts in Chinese capacity, Chinese crude steel p… Read More

Much has been made of the meteoric rise of Chinese steelmaking over the past decade but as we have discussed before this peaked in 2014. There is another major Asian steel producer… Read More

At just under 18 million tonnes last year, Iran accounted for more than half of all the steel produced in the Middle East and is becoming an important player on the world stage. It is a… Read More

Did you know that we shown monthly tinplate prices on our website?For the latest world tinplate prices, visit us at http://www.steelonthenet.com/steel-prices.html.Better still why not subsc… Read More

Looking for aerospace steel news – or other high strength metal sector news?Visit us at http://www.steelonthenet.com/feeds/aerospace.php. Andrzej M KotasWebsite: www.steelonthenet.co… Read More

We now show historic steel prices on our website including rebar prices as well as HRC, CRC and other price data.The historic data goes back to year 2001 and is shown monthly.blogger@steel… Read More

We now show world steel prices for the period 2001- 2016 on our website. Visit us at http://www.steelonthenet.com/steel-prices.html. [email protected] Read More

If you are watching steelmaking input costs, you will have noticed the marked increases in input costs of recent months. For example,- Thermal coal has moved from $78/tonne in September to… Read More

The following extract is from an ISSB discussion about future threats to European producers of steel rebar.Deformed Rebar is a very important product for certain European long product prod… Read More

The international iron ore price is set to collapse later this year. According to a new analysts’ report, the price of the raw material will drop to a year-end low of $US37 a tonne… Read More

The following extract is from an ISSB discussion about the probable impact of Brexit on the UK steel sector.There has been much conjecture over both the short-term and long-term effects o… Read More

Böllinghaus Steel is well known as a specialist for stainless steel longs. Daily customers from all over the world are visiting the website of the company, which is on the market… Read More

Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Chairman of the Liberty House Group, has just posted a video calling for radical change to make the struggling UK steel industry competitive again. The script belo… Read More

Gupta Family Group Alliance companies, Liberty House and SIMEC, have unveiled major plans to turn their adjacent Newport sites into a two million tonne a year steel super-plant, powered by… Read More

Liberty House will re-open yet another steelworks next month (June 2016) as it steps up its drive to transform the UK steel industry.As part of its GREENSTEEL strategy, Liberty is set to r… Read More

We have previously discussed in this blog some of the issues surrounding the future of Port Talbot in south Wales. Below, I outline our own views of the way ahead for steelmaking in south… Read More

Rockford, IL, May 2, 2016 – Centro-Metalcut, a world-class manufacturer of Abrasive Cutoff Saws and Conditioning Grinders for the steel industry is gearing up for production on a la… Read More

The Iron & Steel Statistics Bureau today comment as follows on Chinese steel production levels in March 2016.“The decline in Chinese domestic demand for steel has been well docu… Read More

Statement from Liberty House regarding the steel plate works at Dalzell and Clydebridge Liberty House has completed its acquisition of the former Tata Steel plate making facilities at Dalz… Read More

A number of press reports are commenting on the lack of interest of the UK banking sector in the future financing of British steelmaking assets. For example see http://uk.reuters.com/arti… Read More

Some press reports are suggesting that Liberty Commodities’ plan for Port Talbot is to use electric arc furnaces (rather than blast furnace steelmaking), with the electric power comi… Read More

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One of the biggest raw material costs for integrated steelmakers is the cost of metallurgical (or blast furnace) coke. We report European met coke prices on our website. Prices for blast f… Read More

Here is a good film clip about the hot rolling of steel.This is a Dalarna / SSAB training clip which provides a video overview of the main processes in a hot rolling mill.Reheating furnace… Read More

The Steelonthenet.com editorial team today launched a new weekly online publication – the Steel News Digest.The Steel News Digest will be published weekly, every Sunday. Readers may… Read More

We now show PPGI price charts on our website. PPGI is otherwise also know as prepainted galvanised iron, organic coated sheet or prepainted steel sheet.To view the charts, visit our steel… Read More