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ThyssenKrupp’s ‘clean’ Blast Furnace in Duisburg

February 11, 2008

And on the subject of ThyssenKrupp, here’s a short video from DeutscheWelle (in English) describing the start up of the ThyssenKrupp number 8 blast furnace in Duisburg.

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ThyssenKrupp company profile, October 2007

February 5, 2008

In the continuing NoS series of gathering profiles of some of the largest steel companies in the world, here’s an extremely comprehensive profile of ThyssenKrupp Steel made by the company itself in October of 2007. There are details of the parent corporation, but much more detailed information about the two main steelmaking groups, carbon & […]

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Canada steel shipments 2007

February 1, 2008

Statistics Canada has just released the November 2007 monthly steel shipment report. Shipments of steel mill products by Canadian mills were just shy of 13.7 million metric tonnes through November. This is very similar to 2006, when shipments through November were slightly above 13.7 million metric tonnes. We maintain a link to these monthly Stats […]

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Steel Business Briefing Videos on YouTube

December 20, 2007

Those nice people at SBB have posted a few videos on YouTube under the name steelvids. The first video features former colleague Steve Randall explaining his Steel Index price product. Enjoy.

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Global steel demand poised to grow along with GDP

December 18, 2007

Until a few years ago the steel industry was considered mature, and the moniker was accurate. Global steel demand grew more slowly than did the world’s population. In much of the developed world, demand for steel was stagnant after having gone through a long period of decline. Since 1998, however, the steel industry seems to […]

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China demand expected to grow by 60 MT in 2008

December 14, 2007

The latest issue of the China Metallurgical Newsletter has Chinese steel industry data through October 2007. Based on the first ten months it looks like finished steel demand is likely to come in around 510 million tonnes for the 2007, while net exports are likley to finish 2007 at around 45 million tonnes (exports 62 […]

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