Tata Steel Ltd (TISC.NS) posted a smaller-than-expected third quarter profit on Tuesday partly due to high costs in its main European market which squeezed margins.

AK Steel AKS +5.09% said today that the company's Middletown (OH) Works coke plant has received the Max Eward Safety Award from the American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCCI), a leading industry trade organization.

Reuters reported that a trade union has demanded Japan's largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation hike basic wages for the first time in 14 years and share the profits generated by the government's Abenomics stimulus policies.

the world's aluminum production reached 46.5 milli

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Spain’s output of crude steel in 2013 was up by 1.5% year-on-year, totaled at 13.8 million tons, but the figure is similar to the level back to 1997.