Global crude steel production in 2020 slipped 0.9% year over year to 1.86 billion mt as rising output in Iran, Turkey and China almost fully offset losses in most other major steel-producing countries, the World Steel Association said in a Jan. 26 report.

The slab import market in East Asia has gone quiet after prices reached peaks earlier this month, Kallanish notes.

Ukraine is expected to attract $10 billion to mine key minerals

Colombia shows a year-on-year increase in crude steel production in the last two months of 2020

German crude steel production drops by 10% in 2020

Owner of Angola's Longonro Rare Earth Project will build a rare earth processing plant in the UK

Ukraine is expected to attract $10 billion to mine key minerals

The roofs of some factories in Ukraine’s ferroalloy plant collapsed due to heavy snow, which will reduce manganese alloy output