Category: Market Segment

The Canadian government estimates steel and aluminum imports from China will decrease by nearly 50% due to newly implemented tariffs.

The president-elect has wasted no time in using the threat of tariffs to reopen negotiations and, ideally, score other political wins along the way.

Canada has launched its own investigation into the dumping of corrosion-resistant steel sheet. Unlike the sprawling coated case underway in the US, this one will look at coated imports from just one country and company.

Domestic steel shipments were down month over month and on-year in October.

Jodi Parnell has been named president and CEO of Birmingham, Ala.-based service center group O’Neal Steel.

Russel Metals Inc. has closed on its buy of Tampa Bay Steel.

During the first 10 months of this year, construction spending rose about 7.2% over last year.

Following the short-lived East Coast port labor strike in October, we now turn toward the Jan. 15 deadline to reach a long-term agreement.

A trustee will lead AHMSA through the liquidation stage of its bankruptcy.

Worthington Steel has reached an agreement to acquire a controlling equity stake in Italian-based electric motor lamination producer Sitem SpA.

The move comes less than two months after Tavares announced that he would step down in early 2026.

After a career in steel spanning four decades, Chuck Schmitt, head of SSAB Americas, will retire next year.

“I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case Nippon Steel of Japan,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday.

“We are under constant threat from nonmarket economies who evade our trade laws," SMA said.

Weekly raw steel production has hovered in this territory for the last two months, now at the sixth lowest rate of the year.

About 23% of respondents expect an uptick in economic activity in the next three months. That’s an increase over the 13% in October.

For the fourth week in a row, Nucor will keep its published spot price for hot-rolled (HR) coil unchanged.

American and Canadian steel trade groups, as well as the government of Mexico, have responded to President-elect Trump's threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all US imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on imports from China.

On Monday, Nucor published new extras effective Jan, 4, 2025.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has asked that President Biden approve Nippon Steel’s $14.9-billion proposed offer to buy Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, according to a report in Reuters.

Contractors Steel was acquired in 2018 by UPG, a private equity firm with a portfolio of metals and logistics companies

The distributor and service center is opening a 250,000-square-foot facility in Canton, Mich.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened on social media Monday evening to impose tariffs of 25% on all US imports from Canada and Mexico.

Flat-rolled steel service center Alliance Steel has expanded into the tubular market with the launch of Alliance Tubular Products. The new Alliance division manufactures square and rectangular electric resistance welded (ERW) products and steel HSS tubing. Production has already started and will continue to ramp up next year, the company said in a statement. Alliance […]

Domestic raw steel mill production increased to a four-week high last week, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

Cleveland-Cliffs' Lourenco Goncalves said the company will install a new stove at Stelco’s blast furnace in Nanticoke, Ontario.

Are you still recovering from the election? If so, please get plenty of rest. Next year will require you to be awake and alert. Things are likely to change. We can’t be sure exactly how they will change yet.

Output from steel mills around the globe totaled 152.1 million metric tons (mt) in October, the highest monthly rate recorded since July.

Nucor is holding its hot-rolled (HR) coil base price flat at $750/st for the third week in a row.

Domestic galvanized prices remain relatively rangebound despite the conclusion of the US presidential election.