Steel Market Production Increases – Evraz North America announced that production at the 200,000 tpy Portland, OR spiral pipe mill will resume in 1H 2013 after being idled since 2009.
Steel Market Production Increases –Esmark Steel Group will restart the Yorkville cold-rolled mill that was purchased during the liquidation of RG Steel’s assets. The mill will begin production in early 2013 with plans to purchase 300,000 tpy of hot-rolled substrate initially, and ramp up to 500,000 tpy “over the next two years.”
Steel Market Production Cuts – Indian steelmaker Tata Steel Europe stated that output was reduced from 18m tpy to 14m tpy this year, while also commenting that maintenance on the Port Talbot No. 4 blast furnace will be completed in December – although the company has not decided if it will be restarted.
Steel Market Production Cuts – ArcelorMittal Galati announced that the No. 1 plate mill has been idled because of decreasing demand. The outage is temporary and operations will “resume immediately once the market situation improves.”
Steel Market Production Increases – Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau plans to begin production of the new 300,000 tpy SBQ rolling mill at the Kaylani Gerdau Steels facility in India by year end after operations of the 350,000 tpy blast furnace started in August.
Steel Market Production Increases – Indian steel producer Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) is increasing crude steel capacity at the Vizag facility from 3.3 mtpy to 6.3 mtpy by year end. RINL has plans to eventually increase capacity to almost 11.5-12m tpy , of which 4.0-4.5m tpy would be flat-rolled production.
Sources: Steel Business Briefing, AMM, SeeNews
