[Producción Nacional de Acero en Mayo de 2026]

The benchmark price for premium heavy melting scrap (HMS 1&2 80:20) exported from the United States east coast to the primary Turkish import hub suffered a steep correction, dropping by $14 per metric ton week-on-week to settle at $388 per ton CFR. Trading desks confirmed that the rapid price deterioration reflects a complete freeze in forward replacement bookings by Turkish electric arc furnace (EAF) mills. Facing heavily compressed domestic and export rebar rolling margins, Mediterranean producers are actively lowering structural melting utilization rates and rejecting high-priced international raw metal inputs.

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) officially launched Zagnelis Protect during a specialized metal consortium in Chennai. This marks the first domestic production of a premium zinc-aluminium-magnesium (ZAM) coated steel brand tailored explicitly for the automotive sector in India. The product technology, patented by ArcelorMittal and previously available only via European manufacturing lines, addresses a major gap in the South Asian automotive supply chain, where approximately 8% to 10% of critical automotive high-strength steel grades are currently imported due to a lack of advanced local rolling infrastructure.

Un censo industrial especializado del acero mundial, presentado por la World Steel Association (Worldsteel) en un foro metalúrgico de alto nivel en Singapur, reveló que la transición internacional hacia una metalurgia baja en carbono ha chocado contra un severo muro. Datos oficiales de monitoreo de proyectos verificaron que aproximadamente el 50% de todos los proyectos planificados de acero verde a nivel global ya han sido pospuestos o suspendidos. Siderúrgicos y analistas del sector confirmaron que, si bien los gobiernos solo han asignado 20 mil millones de dólares de los 1,5 billones de dólares de capital necesario para descarbonizar por completo el sector de los metales primarios, las primas no competitivas del hidrógeno verde están congelando inversiones multimillonarias en infraestructura de hierro de reducción directa (DRI).