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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.

Sebuah sensus industri baja global khusus yang dipresentasikan oleh World Steel Association (Worldsteel) pada forum logam tingkat tinggi di Singapura mengungkapkan bahwa transisi internasional menuju metalurgi rendah karbon telah menemui hambatan besar. Data pemantauan proyek resmi memverifikasi bahwa sekitar 50% dari seluruh proyek baja ramah lingkungan global yang direncanakan telah ditunda atau dihentikan sementara. Produsen baja dan analis industri mengonfirmasi bahwa sementara pemerintah hanya mengalokasikan 20 miliar dolar AS dari perkiraan modal sebesar 1,5 triliun dolar AS yang dibutuhkan untuk mendekarbonisasi sepenuhnya sektor logam primer, premi yang tidak kompetitif untuk hidrogen hijau membekukan investasi bernilai miliaran dolar dalam infrastruktur besi reduksi langsung (DRI).