Category: Mills

What has happened since the August hot rolled (HR) settlement ($767 per short ton)?

Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) has lost some production this month at its sheet mill in Columbus, Miss., on a combination of planned and unplanned outages, according to sources familiar with the matter.

U.S. Steel will take a 16-day planned outage beginning next week on the No. 6 blast furnace (BF) at its Gary Works in northwest Indiana.

Commercial Metals Company (CMC) has unveiled its new branding as "CMC," reflecting its growth beyond metals.

Construction spending in the US increased in August, according to the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

Algoma Steel Group has extended its iron ore purchase agreement with U.S. Steel for another two years.

U.S. Steel is laying off ~300 workers at its Granite City Works in Illinois, a company spokeswoman told SMU on Tuesday.

Cleveland-Cliffs has signed a non-disclosure agreement with U.S. Steel as the latter continues with its strategic review sales process.

US raw steel output took a downward turn during the week ending Sept. 30, according to data released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) on Monday, Oct. 2.

General Motors has announced layoffs at its Parma Metal Center in Ohio and Marion Metal Center in Indiana as a result of the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

Algoma Steel Inc. plans to ramp up production at its modernized plate mill toward the end of the year. Operations Update The Canadian sheet and plate producer said it in the meantime continues hot commissioning at the upgraded facility and has begun cold commissioning as well. The company said it has also run trials through […]

Electrode producer GrafTech International announced on Thursday, Sept. 28 that its president and CEO is stepping down.

Nucor Corp. will keep plate prices unchanged with the opening of its November order book.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain is scheduled to make an announcement on Facebook Live, according to the UAW International Union's Facebook page.

While lead times for sheet again had mixed movements this week, those for plate collapsed, according to SMU’s most recent market survey.

US President Joe Biden is set to meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel on Oct. 20 in Washington ahead of a deadline for an agreement on steel, according to a report in Reuters.

Nucor has announced a collaboration with fusion power company Helion to develop a 500-megawatt nuclear fusion power plant.

Ford Motor Co. said on Monday that it has stopped work at its $3.5-billion project for an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Michigan, according to media reports.

The United Steelworkers International (USW) executive board on Tuesday appointed David McCall as the union’s new international president. He will fill the remainder of Tom Conway’s term.

Despite economic headwinds in the headlines, the near-term future could prove brighter than expected, according to members of the Heating, Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) speaking on the Tuesday, Sept. 26, meeting of its Sheet Metal/Air Handling Council.

Worthington Industries announced on Tuesday the names and branding for the two companies resulting from its planned separation, which could happen earlier than previously stated.

Tom Conway, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW) union since 2019, has died at age 71.

Domestic raw steel output was up slightly for the week ending Sept. 23, according to data released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) on Monday, Sept. 25.

Global steel production tapered off in August vs. July, according to the latest figures from the World Steel Association (worldsteel).

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has more leverage than the Detroit Three automakers in the current strike that started Sept. 15, according to Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics.

Demand will be the determining factor in what happens to steel sheet prices globally for the remainder of the year, and most risks right now are to the downside. An autoworkers strike has started in the USA and could increase price volatility in the domestic sheet market. The longer and more severe this strike is, […]

The LME aluminum 3-month price was up 0.8% on the morning of Friday Sept. 22. It was last seen trading at $2,238/metric tons, remaining above the $2,200/t mark for most of the past week.

Zekelman Industries has announced an expansion of its its ZI-Strut™ metal framing and accessories product line.

Canadian steelmaker Stelco Holdings Inc. is now in the mix to purchase U.S. Steel, according to an article in Bloomberg on Thursday, which cited people familiar with the matter.

After a quiet couple of weeks, the futures market has recently come to life over the last three days, and is starting to show some bullish signals.