The Indian government has slapped a 5% export duty on iron ore pellets to counter flight of the material out of the country, which was resulting in its shortage at steel mills. Pellet-makers and the pro-mining lobby say this is a retrograde step. Meanwhile, demand for pellets has increased from the steel-makers, which is pushing up prices of the material.

Self-Reliance push to Steel
A deep look at the sectors that can revive steel demand by turning self-reliant.

Also read:
• India steel demand likely to fall steeper than most developing markets: NMDC head
• Steel, iron ore prices on a roll: Steel makers have continued raising prices in line with surge in iron ore quotes
• India’s steel mills supporting global met coal demand
• Iron ore shortage hurting industry

Read Steel Insights September 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Steeling back to recovery: Hope for better H2
Pricing power returns but iron ore availability key challenge

Also read:
• Will the eagles dare? Webinar discusses coal block auction
• ArcelorMittal sees signs of recovery 
• Vale sees steel recovery in H2 of 2020
• JSW realisation drops 12%
• Moody’s sees 10% drop in demand for top Indian steel makers

Read Steel Insights August 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Iron Ore: A new paradigm
From abundance to scarcity: steel makers are staring at a new normal

Also read:
• Coal blocks auction: Steel makers set to benefit
• Government nudges steel sector to raise usage
• Tata Steel to revisit capex plans in second half
• Oversupply to drive price correction in 2QFY21
• Implied steel output loss seen at 14% in FY21: Analyst’s report

Read Steel Insights July 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Charting post-Covid world
Pick-up in exports & policy support to lift Indian steel industry

Also read:
• Government to chalk out action plan for post-Covid steel sector
• Extreme lockdown to hit steel recovery in India: World Steel
• As Brazil falters, iron ore exports from Australia jump
• How steel can emerge stronger from Covid crisis: Experts’ take
• Rating agencies see 15-20% demand shrinkage in FY21

Read Steel Insights June 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Steeling up to a new normal
High costs, low demand to haunt steel makers post lockwdown.

Also read:
• Industry views:  How steel sector is coping with corona
• Indian Steel Association revises steel demand forecast
• Study sees up to 70% drop in realty deals in key markets
• Will need for personal mobility drive post-lockdown auto demand?  
• Fortescue sees strong demand from China rebound

Read Steel Insights May 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Steely resolve: Needed to break Covid lock
A deep look at the comprehensive impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the metal industry.

Also read:
• Industry views on Covid impact on domestic steel and allied industries 
• Graphite electrode makers up for challenging time
• World tumbles into recession
• Hustling to minimize India’s coking coal imports 
• Corona to severely impact housing and office sales

Read Steel Insights April 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

Metallics in steel: Achieving the right mix
Growth of steel industry hinges on metallics availability

Also read: 
• Anti-dumping duty on China coated flats likely    
• Corona pandemic to delay steel sector revival
• NMDC sees iron ore demand surge post lease expiry    
• Fitch downgrades JSW on sector challenges
• Steel demand, DFC to drive orders: Titagarh Wagon

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Flat Makers: Shrugging off downturn with special offerings
Drop in import and increment in export of Flat Products implies good quality of production. 

Also read: 
• Union Budget proposal to boost steel sector 
• China crisis infects global trade and manufacturing. 
• Motown starts 2020 on a low key 
• High financial commitment key concern over commercial mining norms 
• Global steel makers set CO2 emission targets

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses.

RINL bets on Flats in Phase II 
“Our expansion will hinge on consumption and demand,” CMD, P.K. Rath

Also read: 
• Task force aims major infrastructure push of $1.4 trillion
• Draft policy on greenfield investments in steel targets 25-30 mtpa capacity by 2025
• Integration issue crops up in British Steel takeover deal
• 2020 to infuse growth in real estate sector
• Iron ore prices set to drop in 2021 as markets find balance

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses.

Cost + Efficiency: Need of the hour 
Steel companies fight low demand with low cost, operational efficiency

Also read: 
• Iron ore mine auction to cause short-term disruption
• Steel ministry proposes integrated steel hubs
• Thyssenkrupp fires blast furnace with hydrogen
• Arjas Steel plans investment to operations, expand capacity
• Rating agencies paint gloomy 2020 outlook for steel companies

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses.

Steel’s constructive way to growth 
Role of construction sector in journey towards a $5-trillion economy

Also read:
• Steel prices drop below dumping duty levels on muted demand
• Core sector September output contracts, steel production growth falls to 4-year low
• Sanjeev Gupta sets up Liberty Steel Group, plans IPO
• Vehicle scrapping facility draft guidelines issued
• Graphite electrode sector’s woes not over yet

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses.

Raw Material Security in Steel: Proactive steps required
As steel sector aims for NSP targets, raw material requirements to jump manifold.

Also read:
• India’s met coke dilemma
• Domestic steel demand to grow in 2nd half of FY20: Rating agencies
• RINL achieves higher EBIDTA, net profit
• China launches stainless steel Futures contract on Shanghai Stock Exchange

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Met Coal demand: Steel makers need to build up capacities
As domestic steel makers raise capacities, demand to shoot up

Also read: 
• Coal India eyes coking coal mines in Russia
• Rating agencies predict bearish steel trends
• Steel makers’ profitability to decline on slowing demand: Moody’s
• SAIL extends disinvestment EoI deadline for better response
• ArcelorMittal, Nippon Steel plan production, capex cuts

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses

Need for a tech-tonic shift
Digitalization of steel-making technology to enable touching optimum efficiency.

Also read: 
• Performance analysis of JSW Steel
• Global steelmaking capacity report by OECD
• India may face iron ore shortage in H1 FY21
• SAIL modernisation, expansion project on verge of completion
• Steel sector margins to shrink in FY20

Read Steel Insights August 2019 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian steel value chain...!

The ‘Long way’ forward 
With government focusing on infrastructure development, long products are up for quantum growth.

Also read: 
• Steel ministry comes up with draft steel scrap policy
• Expert Speak: SAIL’s flat product portfolio and expansion program for FY31
• India to turn net steel exporter in 2 years: Care Ratings
• Union Budget: Infrastructure, housing and EVs key focus 
• Next round of Stressed asset sale could see lower recovery rates

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses

NDA 2.0: Need for a Steely Resolve
What are the major challenges ahead for the new government? An in-depth look. 

Also read: 
• Domestic iron ore supply to shrink in a year’s time
• CARE cuts FY20 steel production growth estimate by half
• Global crude steel output up 1% in April
• Linde sees revival in demand from new steel capacities

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics, international news & price analyses

Indian steel: Growth story intact in FY20
Steel consumption set to cross psychological 100 mt mark in current fiscal 
 
Also read: 
• Expert speak: In search of employment opportunity in the Indian steel industry 
• Interview: Indian mills should adopt JSM strategy of joint coal procurement
• Interview: JSL Lifestyle bets big on stainless steel home décor segment 
• Interview: Steady pipeline of infra projects to drive CASE India’s growth 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Construction ahead!
Traction seen in select infrastructure segments that seems to be keeping steel consumption buoyant

Also read: 
• Cover interview: 6-7% steel consumption growth should be sustainable in India: ICRA 
• Feature: Mills explore new product lines to reach retail consumer 
• Feature: Lease expiry next year may hit iron ore supplies
• Feature: Seaborne coking coal prices may average $185/t in CY19

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Safety latch
Despite a strong regulatory framework, India’s steel industry has not yet achieved zero accident level. What should be the way forward?
 
Also read: 
• Cover interview: ‘Accident statistics should be compiled on the basis of uniform definition’
• Feature: Iron ore output may touch record 225 mt in FY20
• Feature: Transit hubs on stainless steel radar
• Feature: Demand spurs steel price hike 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Refractory feels the heat
Weak market, raw material concerns, lack of quality human resource and environmental concerns are burning issues for the industry today

Also read: 
• Cover interview: IRMA joins hands with JPC to draft refractory white paper
• Interview: ‘Key areas of steel innovation are raw materials, process optimisation & operations’
• Interview: India likely to add 24-26 mt steel capacity over next 5 yrs
• Feature: JSL sees bigger kitchenware play, focuses on eastern market

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Logistics logic   
Domestic bottlenecks and ore grades mismatch are leading to rising iron ore imports. How can steel mills overcome transportation challenges?


Also read:
• Interview: ‘SRMB aiming to produce safe, sustainable, innovative steel’
• Opinion: Outlook for 2019: Commercial, Affordable Housing sectors to show continued strength
• Interview: ‘Coking coal prices may touch $195-200/t in 2020’
• Feature: Odisha iron ore output to cross 100 mt in FY19

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Ferrous wheel  
India’s ferro alloy industry being squeezed by weak demand, high power cost and difficulty in accessing local mineral resources. 

Also read:
• Interview: IoT, AI the next big thing in construction technology industry. 
• Special Focus: Dry bulk cargo freight rates to stay flat in short term.
• Feature: Collaborative research required between coal, power & steel sectors.
• Feature: "India to become largest coking coal importer by 2022". 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

How to meet coking coal challenges?
300 mt of crude capacity by 2030 means increased coking coal demand in a country that imports 85% of its requirements. So what’s the way forward?

Also read: 
• Special focus: Improved steel volumes, mineral development & infrastructure support needed to achieve 2030 crude steel target 
• Special focus: India must address structural issues to reach 300 mt
• Special Feature: Indian states’ steel use pattern uneven: study 
• Interview: Voltas’ Mining & Construction Equipment Division is eying more revenues from services portfolio

Plus our regular features, focus on corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Long products rise from construction rubble
It is expected that long products will grow 8-10 percent for the rest of fiscal 2018-19, with consumption picking up post-monsoon

Also read: 
• Feature: ‘Demand-led growth model better for 300 mt steel capacity’
• Interview: Stainless steel ideal for water management solutions in India
• Looking ahead: Engineering & aerial transportation stalwart Shekhar Chakravarty stresses on small washeries as way forward
• Metals round-up: Domestic scrap prices to stay range-bound in October

Plus our regular features, focus on corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Indian steel: waiting for Industry 4.0
The Indian steel industry must innovate and continue to do so if it has to survive in a regime of diminishing returns to scale

Also read: 
• Special focus: ISSDA hopeful of duty removal on ferro nickel
• Expert Speak: Aluminothermy is better for making medium, low carbon & noble alloys 
• Metals roundup: Scrap demand push coming from secondary steel mills
• International: Coking coal price rise caused by shrinking domestic supply

Plus our regular features, focus on corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Indian steel: consumption challenges 
The industry is again showing signs of a rejuvenation but emerging demand requires existing profiles with additional features and value-added steel.

Also read:
Feature: India’s June crude steel output up 7.4%
Feature: Next steel recast wave to happen in secondary sector
International:  Will US sanctions really impact China?
Metals round-up: Supply tightness impact to continue into Q2 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

The Great Steel Shake-out
It could be a major league of big players’ post-NCLT. Also, it seems, infrastructure will drive steel demand for them. 

Also read:
• Logistics: SER gearing up for steel industry’s loading needs by 2030
• Special Feature: Coking coal in India is always a challenge!
• Interview:  Dr Edwin Basson, DG, worldsteel speaks on India’s prospects and how globally steel usage will level out because ‘circularisation’ will displace new demand
• Interview: KIOCL expects to cross  Rs 1,800-cr topline in FY19

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Beneficiate OR(E) lose competitive edge 
Iron ore producers must beneficiate low grade ore to stem imports and serve the domestic market better

Also read: 
• Feature: Sponge iron makers hit by rakes
• Corporate: NMDC’s Q4 iron ore production up 9% to 11.35 mt
• Logistics: First phase of Eastern DFC unlikely in 2018
• Interview: Techno-feasibility report for Tajpur Port expected in 3-4 months

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

Better get ‘moving’
Setting up efficient logistics infrastructure, not just locational advantage, will offer steel mills competitive edge

Also read:
• Cover: Roads to play important role in secondary movement of steel
• Cover: TMILL eyes investments in private freight terminals
• Feature: Global steel demand sustains broad recovery: WSA
• Interview: Danieli eyeing biz worth #400m in India by 2021 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

FY19: year of steel industry consolidation?
Mergers and acquisitions and brownfield expansion likely to be primary route of expansion in the short to medium term

Also read:
• Cover interview: Are we moving towards steel cartels?
• Special feature: Will Donald triumph in his trade tactics? 
• Interview:  RINL may turn profitable (after 3-yr gap) in FY19: CMD
• Feature: India pips Japan in crude steel production in Feb 

Plus regular features, corporate, logistics and other news & analyses.

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