Steel Market Production Increases – Ukrainian pipe-maker Interpipe stated that the new 1.32 mtpy Dneprostal EAF plant has been started up and is going to be the largest EAF in Eastern Europe.

Steel Market Production Increases – Ukrainian steelmaker Industrial Union of Donbass aims to increase output at the Alchevsk subsidiary by 13% in October for rolled steel and 11% for crude, to 310,000 tpy and 345,000 tpy respectively.

Steel Market Production Cuts – Wisconsin-based Charter Steel announced a maintenance outage at the 650,000 tpy Cleveland plant from Nov. 16 through Dec. 3 to upgrade the EAF.

Steel Market Production Increases – Russian pig iron manufacturer Kosaya Gora Iron Works announced plans to restart the 360,000 tpy No. 3 blast furnace sometime in 1H13.

Steel Market Production Increases – The equipment manufacturing arm of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) began operations at a new 100,000 tpy OCTG line pipe mill in September.

Steel Market Production Increases – Italian steelmaker ABS, a subsidiary of Danieli, announced that the Sisak, Croatia mill’s EAF will be restarted in November. The mill was purchased from Commercial Metals Company in June.

Sources: Steel Business Briefing, SteelOrbis, American Metal Market