Affected by the dual control of energy consumption and the power rationing policy, a steel mill in Guangxi will reduce its hot rolled coil output by about 30% in October, and the same proportion of customer orders for the month will be adjusted.

China's import volume of unwrought copper and copper semis in August were 393,900 mt, a year-on-year decrease of 41.07%, and a month-on-month decrease of 7.2%. The imports from January to August were 3.61 million mt, a year-on-year decrease of 15.4%.

This is a roundup of news in the steel industry for last week.

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As China's supply-side reforms targeted industrial overcapacity, crude steel output in Hebei province for the first four months of the year fell 8.9% from last year

According to the most recent statistics published by the World Steel Association, the crude steel production by 65 member countries was 139.308 million tonnes (Mt) in May this year.

The Global Steel Processing Market is projected to be around $642.43 Billion by 2020 growing at a CAGR of 2.16% from 2015 to 2020.

According to the recent data published by the World Steel Association (World steel), the crude steel production by EU-28 countries were up marginally by 0.3% during the month of April year-on-year.

Steel demand on South Korea’s hot rolled coil mills is subdued, amidst an inflow of low-priced imports from China and a slowing economic recovery, said MEPS International.

The latest statistics released by the Aluminum Association suggests that the aluminum industry demand in the US and Canada jumped higher by 5% during the entire year 2014.