Essen - 9-month adjusted EBIT at €683 million was significantly down from the prior year (€1.3 billion).

London - Financial Times: UK government is in talks with Ataer Holding.

Hoa Phat - GL#2 in Vietnam will produce 350,000 tpy of high-quality GI and GL coils for construction and home appliance markets in Southeast Asia.

Mumbai - Company reports a 11 %YoY volume growth for production and 5%YoY plus for deliveries, despite challenging global environment.

London – During the trade fair METEC in Dusseldorf, the steel producer Gerdau and the full-line supplier of metallurgical plant solutions Primetals Technologies signed a strategic partnership for their digitalization journey.

Linz - Revenue for Q1 2019/20 3.8% lower than in the previous year (3.3 billion / 3.5 billion EUR), EBITDA fell by 27.7%, EBIT dropped by 51.6%.

Augsburg - KUKA Group posted orders received totaling €914.0 million in the second quarter of 2019. This corresponds to a 4.8% decrease on the second quarter of 2018.

Berlin – According to the Federal Statistical Office, incoming orders in the manufacturing sector rose by 2.5 % in June compared with the previous month. Orders from the non-Euroregion contributed to this, increasing by 8.6 % supported by large orders.

Düsseldorf – China Steel Corporation (CSC), Taiwan, has awarded SMS group the contract to supply three 160-ton converters for its No. 1 steel making plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The aim of the upgrade is to improve the availability of the converters and reduce the need for maintenance.

Lucerne  –  Schmolz +BIckenbach today reported a 16.2% decline in sales volume from 580 kilotons in the second quarter of 2018 to 486 kilotons. Due to higher sales prices, revenue decreased proportionally less sharply to EUR 807.6 million (11.1%) from EUR 908.3 million in the prior-year quarter.

Portaldn - Board of Directors of Schnitzer Steel declared a cash dividend of $0.1875 per common share.

Frankfurt – In the first six months of the current year, machine builders in Germany recorded a significant drop in their order books. In the first half of 2019, they recorded a 9 percent decline in orders in real terms compared with the previous year, with the decline being the same in Germany and abroad.