SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH lowers guidance for fiscal year 2019

Lucerne – SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH has today lowered its earnings forecast for the 2019 financial year on the basis of business developments since the beginning of September. Adjusted EBITDA is now expected to be below the range of EUR 70 million

23 Oct 2019

More transparency and process efficiency

Essen – To meet rising demand from its customers for online solutions, thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe has added new in-house developments to its portfolio of digital applications: Amongst these are the web-based information platform mpe connect.

23 Oct 2019

European Steel Buyers Expect Further Price Cuts Before Year-End

Sheffield – Despite the regional steelmakers’ attempts to lift basis values, in order to restore profit margins, European strip mill product prices moved downwards, in October. Market activity deteriorated noticeably.

23 Oct 2019

All-in-One Scan System for Multi-Head Laser Machines

Puchheim - OEM scan solution producer SCANLAB GmbH is unveiling a new additive-manufacturing scan head at formnext 2019 tradeshow.

22 Oct 2019

Global Steel industry groups call for urgent action on steel excess capacity crisis CAPACITY CRISIS

Brussels – Nineteen steel industry associations in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia today called for the governments of steelmaking economies to step up efforts to effectively tackle persistent global excess capacity in the steel sector

22 Oct 2019

Tata Steel invites visitors to discuss mutual future challenges and opportunities

Ijmuiden - With this year’s motto ‘Let's talk about the future’, the company invites customers and other visitors to its Blechexpo stand.

22 Oct 2019

Unicompact takes logistics to new heights for the steel trade

Achern – Ever-shorter delivery times and fluctuating batch sizes prompted the multi-metal distributor Debrunner Acifer to put its logistics processes to the test. The company decided to optimise its storage technology to ensure a high level of supply readiness.

22 Oct 2019

Lucia Morselli appointed Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal Italia

Taranto - Lucia Morselli will replace Matthieu Jehl, current President and CEO, who will take on new responsibilities within ArcelorMittal.

21 Oct 2019

Little reaction to mixed China data

Frankfurt - According to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), GDP grew by 6.0% in the third quarter, slightly slower than expected.

21 Oct 2019

U.S. countermeasures in the Airbus dispute

Brussels – Following the move by the U.S. today to apply countermeasures against imports from the EU in consequence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Airbus dispute, Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström made a statement.

21 Oct 2019

From professionals for professionals

Grevenbroich/Stuttgart. The 14th Blechexpo fair will take place in Stuttgart from 05 to 08 November 2019. On this occasion stahlnews.de will organise the Blechexpo-ExpertsMeeting on the evening of the first day of the fair (05 November 2019) from 6.15 p.m. onwards.

18 Oct 2019

EU safeguards come under fire at EUROMETAL conference

Brussels - Former EUROMETAL director general Georges Kirps: The safeguards are a “… Mission Impossible”.

18 Oct 2019