Contributor: Laura Miller

The US Department of Commerce has published its preliminary findings in the antidumping (AD) trade case investigating tin mill products from China and Canada.

Resonac announced this week it plans to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares in Monterrey, Mexico-based AMI Automation.

Sims Metal is expanding its extensive network of scrap recycling facilities in the US with the addition of Baltimore Scrap Corp. (BSC).

Longview, Texas-based steel processor Friedman Industries is anticipating steady demand in the current quarter.

Despite reporting the third highest quarterly revenues in its history, Greenwave Technology Solutions still posted a loss for the quarter ended June 30.

Stellantis is apparently not thrilled with the demands of the United Auto Workers as the parties make their way through this year’s labor negotiations.

US plate producers were successful in their most recent effort to have the suspension agreement on cut-to-length plate imports from Russia removed and replaced with antidumping duties.

U.S. Steel has an upcoming mill outage planned for routine maintenance at its Big River Steel mill in Osceola, Ark.

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Russel Metals posted solid second-quarter earnings. The Toronto-based company anticipates a continuation in steady demand for its service centers and steel distributors.

Longs producer and metal recycler Gerdau reported lower second-quarter production and shipments due to several mill outages.

After a sunset review, antidumping and countervailing duties on cut-to-length carbon-quality plate imports from India, Indonesia, and South Korea will remain in place for another five years.

While Canadian integrated steelmaker Stelco remains committed to decarbonization its steelmaking operations, it has no plans to convert to electric-arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking, nor to buy an EAF steelmaker anytime soon.

A former leader of Ford Motor Co. recently spoke out on the potential for a United Auto Workers (UAW) strike at the Big Three Detroit automakers.

Certain welded pipe and tube products being exported from Vietnam to the US are not circumventing antidumping duties on Taiwanese pipe products, the US Department of Commerce said this week.

A strike at the Big Three Detroit automakers continues to loom on the horizon, and that potential is increasing as the United Autoworkers (UAW) union is pushing for big changes to labor contracts in the wake of soaring profits from the automakers.

Nucor Corp. announced it will be providing steel to help build a new solar project in Kentucky. In addition, the steelmaker has agreed to purchase power from the project.

Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector contracted for the ninth month in a row in July, according to the latest report on business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

The US Department of Commerce has updated antidumping duties on several welded pipe and tube products, according to Federal Register filings reviewed by SMU.

The spread between hot-rolled coil (HRC) and galvanized coil base prices widened over the last month as hot rolled prices declined faster than prices for galvanized product.

US steel imports look to have fallen significantly during the month of July, based off license data from the US Department of Commerce collected through July 31.

Despite an uncertain economic outlook, Olympic Steel is expecting demand to remain steady in the current quarter.

Movements in lead times were again mixed in SMU’s market check this week, with most products mostly sideways compared to two weeks ago.

Latin American steelmaker Ternium remains optimistic that positive trends in the Mexican market will help it to continue increasing its market share.

While Ternium is expecting an increase in shipments in the current quarter, a decrease in earnings is also anticipated due to lower international steel prices and higher unit costs.

The newly formed Hybar company has secured financing for its planned 630,000-tons-per-year rebar mini mill being built in northeast Arkansas.

Effective in September, former Goldman Sachs analyst Emily Chieng is joining U.S. Steel as the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker’s new investor relations officer.

Kloeckner Metals Corp. has completed the acquisition of National Material of Mexico.

In administrative reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on corrosion resistant (galvanized/Galvalume) steel from South Korea, the US Department of Commerce has preliminarily adjusted the duties downward.

Steel Dynamics Inc.’s hot strip mill in Sinton, Texas, is back up and running after a month-long unplanned outage.