The China steel dumping crisis has prompted president Obama to speak up against it.

Tata Steel embarked on the integral first step to a much needed restructuring of their steel plants.

Four major producers of stainless steel sheet and strip filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions in response to the ongoing influx of Chinese steel.

Despite all the battering global steel has taken, the outlook for 2016 is still quite positive compared to 2015.

Ricky Payling, application specialist at Dormer Pramet, outlines the growth of stainless steel, how the cutting tool industry has evolved to machine the material, as well as providing a summary of some of its most common grades.

China saw crude steel output shrank for the first time in a quarter century.

Overproduction and slumping demand led to Chinese steel firms losing big in 2015.

China saw their exports of steel products in 2015 rise 20 percent from the last year.

The Indonesian government has revealed plans to determine a reference price for foreign steel.

In a bid to combat the over-capacity in steel and iron production, the northern province of Hebei, which produces a quarter of China’s steel, has pledged to cut down iron production by 10 million tonnes and steel by eight million tonnes.

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