Steel Market Production Cuts – Commercial Metals is planning an outage at its Birmingham, AL steel mill in early May. The mill produces structural shapes and has 800,000 tpy of raw steel capacity and 600,000 tpy of rolling capacity. The outage is likely slated for the week of May 7.
Steel Market Production Increases – Romanian longs producer Ductil Steel has restarted operations at its Otelo Rosu works following a two week stoppage.
Steel Market Production Increases – Japanese producer Nippon Steel has announced that it is increasing capacity at its number 4 blast furnace at its Yawata works by 18 percent. The upgrade is expected to be initiated during the 4th quarter of 2012 and completed within 85 days.
Sources: American Metal Market and Steel Orbis
