A flat steel product is a plate product or a (hot or cold) rolled strip product.

Table 1. Steel's good years versus bad years

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Consumption of finished steel is smaller than production of crude steel due to losses in production of finished products (the discarded material is recycled).

Wire drawn products and seamless pipes are also part of the long steel products group.

Well, we don't make any steel anymore, and the people who used to make the steel are having a very tough time of it.

This permits relatively high profit margins to be earned by most steel companies.

The global steel industry has long suffered from persistent overcapacity.

Source International Iron and Steel Institute.

Experts called for the creation of a global steel agreement or a global steel accord to steady and guide the steel industry.

In 2004, 63 per cent of crude steel was produced by the integrated route, 33.8 per cent by the EAF method, and 3.2 per cent by the old open hearth technology.

Steel production and use have some advantages from an environmental point of view.

Alloyed steels account for a relatively small portion of all finished steel products, and their production and use are concentrated in developed countries and China.

Steel is completely recyclable, and its production requires relatively small amounts of energy, compared, for instance, to aluminium.

They noted that there was currently no body within the United Nations system that covered steel production and trade issues. They agreed on the desirability of creating a working group on steel under UNCTAD auspices that would provide a forum where producers and consumers could meet and address pressing issues affecting the industry.

In 2004, global crude steelmaking capacity was reported to be 1.18 billion tones, while the utilization rate was 88 per cent.

Steel and related specialty products

(iii) Steel and related specialty products

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The ACINOX Iron and Steel Industrial Group, which imports and exports products relating to the iron and steel industry and electric conductors, loses some 12 million a year as a result of the embargo, a sum which could be used to produce more than 45,000 tonnes of corrugated bars.

Mr. Wu Gang (China)

Tenaris Siderca (steel) is one of the successful Argentine companies investing abroad and is developing a global production network for seamless steel pipes.

The increase in demand and the fact that numerous developing countries produced iron ore should encourage those countries to go a step further into steel processing.

Despite China s lack of a comparative advantage for steel production, it has built approximately one thousand mills, with output accounting for roughly half of the global total. As early as 2004, China s government tried to clamp down on overinvestment and yet output increased dramatically, from 300 million tons that year to a billion tons in 2012, owing to strong demand generated by investment in infrastructure and real estate development.

Decided to use recycled content from cement and steel manufacturing.

And there's more plastics produced and consumed around the world on a volume basis every year than steel.

Efforts are being made to introduce improvements in cement and steel production to ensure that these processes are ecologically and environmentally friendly.

Since the 1960s, the steel industry has made considerable efforts to limit environmental pollution, reducing by half both energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per ton of steel produced.

The annual demand for steel bars in Tanzania has reached 1.83 million tons, but the quality of locally produced steel bars cannot fulfill the requirements of large buildings such as high rise buildings and bridges, so the country imports 70 percent of steel bars,

Crude steel is used to produce semi finished and finished products destined for internal consumption as inputs for further processing or for sale.

Mr. Zheng Guo, Bao Steel, Europe

Higher freight rates of course also affected the competitiveness of those steel producers that mainly depend on export markets.

The world steel industry remains highly fragmented, with the 10 largest producers (by size in 2003 Arcelor, Mittal Steel, Nippon Steel, JFE, POSCO, Shanghai Baosteel, US Steel, Corus Group, Nucor, and ThyssenKrupp) accounting for just 30 per cent of total world production.

Other relatively dynamic steel product groups include Iron and Steel in its Primary Form (SITC position 672) with growth of 5.7 per cent, and Steel, Steel Universal, Plate and Sheet (SITC position 674), with growth of 5.0 per centTable 2.

Of course, the effects spread through the economy as demand for cars falls, demand for steel also falls, and steel workers are laid off. But unemployment is most pronounced in the construction and automobile sectors, or in regions where house prices rose particularly rapidly.

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In 2004, production crossed the threshold of 1.0 billion tonnes for the first time ever (see figure 1).

Figure 1. World production of crude steel 1997 2004, million metric tons

Table 6 summarizes the main parameters and shows how China has emerged as the major force on both the production and consumption side of the industry.

Typical rod products are reinforcing rods for concrete, engineering products, gears, tools and a range of products used in building construction.

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Angang Steel Company (Hao Qingshun, Director of the Metallurgical Department of Liaoning Provincial Industry and Informatization Commission, said that metallurgy was the third largest pillar industry in Liaoning, with annual steel production capacity of 60 million tonnes, ranked third nationwide.

Experts considered that steel production was not necessarily a possible or desirable route of forward integration for every country with iron ore deposits.

It was agreed that the policy goals for the national steel sector were reducing energy consumption and waste of raw materials by adopting more efficient production methods, encouraging the consolidation of the highly fragmented national steel sector, modernizing outdated plants, and improving the geographical distribution of the industry.