The Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced that in 2021, China’s 145 million mt of steel production capacity completed the ultra-low emission transformation of the whole process.

The operating rates across 34 EAF mills of construction steel stood at 54.58% as of December 28, a gain of 0.68 percentage point from the previous week.

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

SMM data showed that HRC stocks across social warehouses and steel makers declined 11,200 mt or 0.34% on the week, a drop of 5.14% from a year ago, to 3.27 million mt in the week ended November 18.

This is an overview of China’s imports and exports of metals in September.

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%.

The steel industry plays an important role in leading global low-carbon development and addressing climate change under the carbon neutrality target. And as traditional processes are reaching their carbon reduction limits, the steel industry must achieve breakthrough technologies in order to realise this target. In the future, hydrogen metallurgy will become the new windfall for the steel industry. This article will giver an overview of the key cooperation projects between international mines and China steel companies in the field of low carbon technology.

New anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions against hot rolled coil imports from China, Russia and Ukraine have been filed by the steel mills of Turkey.

Hot rolled coil figures, in Russia, held firm in October, according to MEPS.

Turkish hot rolled coil selling figures were under negative pressure during September, according to MEPS.