Steel Market Production Increases – Caspian Stal, a Kazakhstani billet and rebar producer, aims to resume production in April after an extended outage and plans to gradually ramp up close to its nameplate capacity of 150,000 tpy.

Steel Market Production Increases – Turkish pipe producer and cold rolled coil mill Goktas Metal plans to commission its third cold rolling mill in June 2012 and increase its current 210,000 tpy CRC rolling capacity to 300,000 tpy.

Sources: Steel Business Briefing