China’s nickel giant Tsingshan Holding Group has started production at its $1 billion steel plant in central Zimbabwe, a company official said on Thursday.

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) announced the release of its 2023 Annual Statistical Report (ASR), which provides comprehensive data on the American steel industry and select data on the North American steel industry as a whole.

A comparison of shipments year-to-date in 2024 to the first four months of 2023 shows the following changes: cold rolled sheet, up 4 percent, corrosion resistant steel, down 2 percent and hot rolled steel, down 2 percent.

Regarded as the birthplace of China's steel industry, Ansteel stands as the first iron and steel giant established after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Pig iron, also referred to as crude iron, is an intermediate product used in the iron industry for steel production. It is created by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace.

An admission letter from the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) made from steel as thin as a cicada's wings has impressed many.

The Smederevo steel plant in Serbia, once on the verge of closure, was revitalized by a 2016 partnership between China's HBIS Group and the Serbian government under the Belt and Road Initiative.

To serve China's dual carbon goals, "greening the process" has become a crucial issue facing the high-quality development of the steel industry.