Steel Company POSCO (South Korea) published a report on the quarterly results of the production of stainless steel products and its marketing.

In the industrial base of the plant "Southern Urals Nickel" running pilot-industrial complex processing of nickel ore by smelting in an electric arc furnace DC.

The division of German group ThyssenKrupp AG, is engaged in sales of black and stainless metal

Since the beginning of this year and up to September 2011 (inclusive) Ukrainian unit AVISMA titanium released about 227 tons of titanium tubes (about 286.5 thousand. Meters of production).

According to previously published data «WBMS» International Bureau of Metal Statistics, in the first half of 2011 the apparent consumption of nickel has exceeded last year's level by 83 thousand. Tonnes.

According to analysts of Japan Iron & Steel Federation, representing more than 120 companies profiled steel market in August, Japan increased its exports of stainless metal.

Zaporozhye producer of special steels and alloys of PJSC "DSS" has published data on the volume of output in the past month.

In the Zhytomyr region again, "passions run high" around the titanium deposits: the former owner Fedorovsky magmatic apatite-titanomagnetite-ilmenite ores

Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia can block the holding of the share buyback procedures for MMC "Norilsk Nickel".

Steelmakers Land of the Rising Sun are concerned about the increase in imports of stainless steel in the domestic market.

At the largest titanium deposit "Central", located in the Tambov region, planned to create a Russian-American joint venture for the production of paints based on titanium dioxide.

Despite the instability of the nickel market, the mining group of Canadian First Quantum Minerals limited is planning to reopen a nickel mine Ravensthorpe. Already this year, according to statements by the company's administration, the work will be resumed at the mine, and in the plans of the company - a rapid access to volumes of production of about 40 thousand tons of nickel per year..

Manufacturers of special steels and traders who sell these types of metal, wary: the traditional autumn awakening of stainless steel in the European market after the summer lull has not happened.

State Property Fund of Ukraine has filed a lawsuit to recover from the private joint-stock company "Crimean Titan", included in the group of companies Dmitry Firtash, the amount exceeding 130 mln. Hryvnia. According to the initiator of the process, CHAO fund owes 117 mln. Hryvnia for rent Volnogorsk mining and metallurgical and Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant

In response to falling stock prices for nickel, the Russian company-producers of this metal are in a difficult socio-economic situation.

The global stainless steel market continues to develop in the spirit of the positive trends of the last year, but the volume of production of metals in this category is growing at a slower pace.