Arab World - 17.4Mt of imports for Arab countries in 9 months during 2009 Last Update 04/03/2010 12:33:18 ArabSteel - Imports to Arab member countries in AISU during the first 9 months of 2009 amounted to 12.7Mt of long products and 4.7Mt of flat products, as compared to 14.6Mt of longs and 6.8Mt of flats for the same period of 2008. That marked a decline by 13% in longs imports and 30% for flats according to figures «Arab Steel» [..More]Arab World - Rebar heads to stabilization in Arab markets, and rising in Saudi market Last Update 01/03/2010 09:24:06 ArabSteel – Hadeed SABIC announced a raise on its products of rebar by SR 100, while Ezzsteel of Egypt decided to fix its prices for March to equal the quotes announced in February. Meanwhile, Jordanian companies maintained their quotes of last week, and prices in Muscat, Oman, witnessed no change for locally produced rebar, whereas imports went down by around 10 US dollars. Abdul-Aziz bin Sulaiman, Executive Vice President of SABIC for metals, [..More]Iraq - Korean company signs MOU to build a new iron & steel plant in Basra, a cost of 3 billion US dollars Last Update 01/03/2010 09:22:10 ArabSteel – Iraqi Industry and Minerals Ministry announced the signing of a preliminary Memorandum of Understanding with STX of Korea to build a new iron & steel plant in Basra. [..More]Arab World - 42% The increase in Arab company's crude steel output for Jan 2010 Last Update 25/02/2010 18:17:52 ArabSteel - Arab steel companies achieved a 42% growth in crude steel output for Jan 2010 compared to the same period of 2009. [..More]World - January 2010 Crude Steel Production is 25.5% higher than January 2009 Last Update 22/02/2010 16:40:23 WAS - World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 109 million metric tons (mmt) in January. This is 25.5% higher than January 2009. [..More]