World crude steel production for the 70 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) decreases in November 2025.

Combilift has celebrated a major manufacturing milestone by transforming its 100,000th forklift into a powerful force for good, raising and donating €100,000 to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to support children in crisis worldwide.

Metinvest has completed the acquisition of ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Iași, located in the Romanian city of Iași. The plant produces welded structural pipes for the construction, engineering, infrastructure and agricultural sectors. Its maximum production capacity is 240,000 tonnes a year.

JSW Vijayanagar Metallics, a subsidiary of JSW Steel, has commissioned a new 350-ton Ruhrstahl Heraeus unit from SMS group at Vijayanagar Works Steel Plant 4 in Toranagallu, India.

Tata Steel and Andritz have signed a multi-million agreement for the design, supply and commissioning of a new acid recovery plant (ARP) at Port Talbot, Wales.

Algoma Steel will lay off approximately 1000 workers, giving them four months notice in December 2025. The Ontario-based company said that the job cuts stem directly from unprecedented 50% tariffs imposed by the United States six months ago, rendering traditional blast-furnace steelmaking no longer viable.

The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced a £2.9m upgrade to its seven-tonne electric arc furnace (EAF), the UK’s only pilot-scale research EAF.

Stegra has been granted about €37 million from the Industrial Leap. The grant goes towards the establishment of Stegra’s fully integrated near zero emission steel production facility in Boden.

Global crude steel production falls in October 2025, a 5.9% decrease compared to October 2024.

Outokumpu is to enhance the production of critical carbon-free materials, such as chromium metal and enriched ferrochrome. The company will invest around $45 million in a new pilot plant in New Hampshire, USA.

Kingspan has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Meranti Green Steel, a Singapore-headquartered company building what is set to be a major green steel plant for Southeast Asia. 

Systems Spray-Cooled of The Systems Group received an order from SMS group for the design and supply of Spray-Cooled equipment for SSAB’s new EAF project located in Oxelösund, Sweden.

Tetiana Petruk, chief sustainability officer of Metinvest Group, the Ukrainian mining and steel producer, spoke about the key workforce challenges facing industry and ways to overcome them.

RATH Group, together with its Indian joint venture partner RATH Avanee, officially open a new production site in Visakhapatnam, southeast India …

Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel has increased its steelmaking capacity at Dung Quat 2 in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, by building a new BOF melting plant with a capacity of 300 tons per converter

Jindal Steel has marked a major milestone in India’s steelmaking industry by blowing in a 5mtpa blast furnace.

Preliminary information indicates that the explosion occurred during maintenance activities involving a gas isolation valve in the basement of the Battery 13/14 transfer area at the facility

The Hy4Smelt industrial-scale demonstration plant will combine hydrogen-based direct reduction (HYFOR) for ultra-fine iron ores with an electric smelting process