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China crude steel production flat on April 2024, net exports +16%

May 23, 2025

Worldsteel reported crude steel production in China at 86.0 million metric tonnes in April with no change compared to April, 2024. Chinese production in the first four months of 2025 was 1.0% lower than in the same period last year. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs show net finished steel exports (exports minus imports) […]

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World crude steel production -0.3% on April 2024, -0.6% on first four months of 2024

May 22, 2025

Worldsteel published April world crude steel production today. World crude steel output was 155.7 million metric tonnes, 0.3% lower than in April, 2024. China produced 86.0 million tonnes in April, accounting for 55% of world output with no change compared to April, 2024. World crude steel production outside of China rose 0.7% on last April, […]

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Michael Rion from Emirates Steel discusses his company’s decarbonization targets and successes on the newly-released Green Steel Challenge podcast

May 20, 2025

The Green Steel Challenge presents its first podcast about steelmaking decarbonization with a Middle Eastern steelmaker: Emirates Steel. Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer Michael Rion explains how they were the first steelmaker in the world to adopt carbon capture and how they are investing heavily to scale up hydrogen production following the government’s push to make […]

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US flat products imports down 45% on April 2024, -22% on first four months of 2024

May 14, 2025

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports fell 45% from 830,000 short tons in April, 2024 to 457,000 tons in April, 2025. The decline was mainly due to lower hot rolled imports from Canada and South Korea, as well as lower hot dip galvanized imports from a number of countries including Vietnam, Mexico, […]

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Adina Renee Adler discusses The Global Steel Climate Council’s technology-neutral framework for measuring and verifying green steel in the latest episode of The Green Steel Challenge

May 9, 2025

What exactly is green steel? Which steelmakers actually produce steel using a process that emits little carbon? How can we trust that the reported emissions are real? In the latest Green Steel Challenge podcast, Adina Renee Adler explains how the Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) is addressing these questions by offering a decarbonized steel standard […]

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China crude steel production +4.6% on March 2024, net exports +7.4%

April 28, 2025

Worldsteel reported crude steel production in China at 92.8 million metric tonnes in March, 4.6% higher than in March, 2024. Chinese production in the first three months of 2025 was 1.3% lower than in the same period last year. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs show net finished steel exports (exports minus imports) in […]

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