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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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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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Platts interviews LME about steel futures launch

October 10, 2007

Below is a 15 minute interview from October 4th with Platts interviewing the LME about steel futures. The LME are naturally very impressed with the interest in steel futures they have seen from steel producers, just about the opposite of the response described in the “SBB Insight: Steel futures prepare to engage the market” circulated […]

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ArcelorMittal’s shareholder revolt

August 25, 2007

Arcelor Mittal is facing a shareholder revolt in Europe led by a group of hedge funds who want more for their shares than the Mittal formula currently offers. They go to court on Tuesday. This is similar – but less financially signifcant – to the revolt Mittal faced in Brazil earlier this year. Let’s just […]

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ArcelorMittal

August 24, 2007

They’re still fighting shareholders in Europe to complete the massively complex acquisition of Arcelor

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