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American Metal Market (AMM) is an online provider of industry news and metal pricing information for the U.S. steel, nonferrous and scrap markets. Products include a daily publication available electronically, live news on the publication's website, a hard-copy magazine and a series of weekly newsletters covering niche markets.
Cleveland Cliffs acquired AK Steel in 2019 right before steel prices began to spike and within a year, it acquired ArcelorMittal USA in 2020 for $1.4 billion. U.S. Steel bought Big River Steel the ...
Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel insist they are committed to a decarbonized operation by 2050. Yet they appear far from a path to get there, still more reliant on coal-fired furnaces.
Census Bureau data showed Canada, Mexico, and Brazil were the main suppliers of steel and iron imports to the US in 2024 by dollar value. Iron can be used to produce steel.
For each commodity they quote a range (low and high price) which reflect the buying and selling about 9-fold due to China's transition from light to heavy industry and its focus on manufacturing. [2] (China became the world's largest consumer of iron ore in 2003, [3] and accounts for over half of global metal consumption.) [4]
The United States is also a major importer of iron and steel, as well as iron and steel products. Employment as of 2014 was 149,000 people employed in iron and steel mills, and 69,000 in foundries. The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion. [2] About 0.3% of the US population is employed by the steel industry. [3]
But US iron and steel production dropped drastically during the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s. From a combined iron and steel production of 203 million tons in 1979, US output fell almost in half, to 107 million tons in 1982. Some steel companies declared bankruptcy, and many permanently closed steelmaking plants. By 1989, US ...
Nippon's $14.9 billion bid in late 2023 represented a nearly 40% premium to U.S. Steel's share price at the time. Most recently, President Biden blocked Nippon's $55-per-share cash bid on national ...