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January 21, 2025 Press Release BHP´s Operational Review For Half Ended 31 December, 2024 BHP has announced its operational review for H1 of the year ended 31 December, 2024. It reported a strong underlying operational performance, with copper production up by 10%. BHP´s Chief Executive Officer, Mike Henry, said: “BHP delivered safe and reliable performance […]
January 18, 2025 Steel Market Summary – Australia Steelmaking Resumes At Whyalla – For Now GFG Alliance, the parent company of the Whyalla steelworks, has announced steelmaking resumed at the plant on January 5. GFG´s global chief manufacturing officer, Theuns Victor, said bringing the four-month shutdown of the blast furnace to an end had been […]
January 16, 2025 Industry News Rio Tinto Closes 2024 With Solid Q4 Operations Rio Tinto has today released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Operations Review. Chief Executive, Jakob Stausholm, said: “Our operating performance in 2024 was good, consistent with our ongoing commitment to strengthen the business as we execute our strategy to deliver profitable growth. The […]
January 6, 2025 Steel Market Summary – International Overcapacity And Trump To Dictate Steel Market In 2025 A Danish politician in the 20-century famously said: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”. He was referring to the difficulty in making accurate predictions. However, after China´s steel exports approached record levels in 2024, […]
January 6, 2025 Steel Market Summary – Australia Where To Whyalla And Australian Steel In 2025? On Christmas Eve, when the South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, declared to the assembled media that it would be a “national disaster” if the Whyalla steelworks were to close, he was in effect speaking directly to Sanjeev Gupta, the […]
January 6, 2025 New Zealand News Hope More Than Expectation For Steel Market Recovery In 2025 The downward trend of the New Zealand economy in 2024 became official in mid-December when the government announced that gross domestic product (GDP) had declined by 1.0% in the September quarter. Coupled with the June quarter´s revised 1.1% fall […]
