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  1. Taranto's hot end survives on a decree, not a plan: inside Acciaierie d'Italia's three-clock restructuring
  2. A Narrow US–Canada Tariff Deal Is Being Chased for Political Reasons, Not Industrial Ones
  3. Gerdau's Q3 2026: Profit Up 43% on a Shrinking Volume Base — What the Headline Number Hides
  4. Severstal's 10 Mt pellet plant enters heat-up phase: the strategic case behind a routine commissioning milestone
  5. RINL's Rebar Restart Is a Coke-Oven Story, Not a Steelmaking Recovery
  6. Prysmian's Alessandro Volta enters sea trials: what a 19,000-tonne cable layer says about the offshore grid build-out
  7. Studsvik Sells inDRUM to Japan by Proxy: What the ReNu Deal Actually Is, and What It Isn't
  8. One Million Tonnes of Canadian Billet for Swiss Steel: A Framework, a Funding Case, and an Unresolved Chemistry Problem
  9. Energy Drilling's $87m CPOC Follow-On: A Rate Story Hiding Behind a Backlog Headline
  10. Price Undertakings, Not Duties, Are the Real Story in Korea's Chinese Galvanised CRC Ruling
  11. East Anglia Three Closes Its Offshore Installation Phase — and Exposes the Supply Chain Behind 1.4 GW
  12. Cronos enters execution: Eni places the contracts, but the interesting part is the architecture
  13. Fortescue's September quarter: the tonne that hasn't been sold is a commercial problem, not a mining problem
  14. Germany's September Steel Slump Was a Blast-Furnace Story, Not a Demand Signal — But the 35.4 Mt Run-Rate Is Fragile
  15. Istanbul Summit Confirms the Steel Industry's Structural Problem: Capacity Is Being Built Faster Than Demand Can Absorb It
  16. Keppel's S$500m rig completion is really a value-recovery trade on a decade of stranded work-in-progress
  17. Colombia reopens the L and U section dumping case — this time against Türkiye, and against its own 2021 verdict
  18. Norway's 2.8-Billion-Barrel Problem: Why Equinor and Aker BP Are Pooling Their Tight-Reservoir Portfolios
  19. Liberty Steel Newport's liquidation closes a file opened by Greensill, not a steel mill
  20. A Seabed Sweep, Not a Milestone: What GEOxyz's East Anglia Two Survey Actually Signals
  21. Punch-Through at Dussafu: What the Loss of Prospector 5 Exposes About Jack-Up Preload Risk and BW Energy's Growth Plan
  22. Gamsberg Phase II Is a Supply Event Arriving Just as China's Zinc Prices Crack
  23. What a Dainan scrap yard's 2507 pricing formula reveals about China's duplex alloy recovery market
  24. China's wear-plate market is quietly diverging — and the spread, not the price, is the story
  25. US Outbound Investment Rules Go Statutory: What the COINS Act NPRM Actually Changes — and Why Beijing's Response Is Broader Than the Rule
  26. Berlin v. Brussels: The Legal Fight Over Who May Buy Europe's Scrap
  27. China's coal tar chain is flat — but the capex underneath it is not
  28. SGE Brings in OPG's Origin Nuclear to Operate Its 14-Unit UK BWRX-300 Fleet — What the Deal Actually Does and Doesn't Settle
  29. Etango's FID: Namibia's Next Uranium Mine Is Really a Chinese Supply Play
  30. The Flat Global Steel Headline Hides a Violent Regional Reshuffle: Reading worldsteel's September 2026 Data
  31. Seela Energies: why Eni and PTTEP folded two 10% Ghasha stakes into one balance sheet
  32. Aibel wins Wisting topsides FEED — but Equinor's Barents Sea project is still a cost problem looking for a concept
  33. American Ships, American Steel: Why SMA Is Lobbying the NDAA for Shipbuilding Language — and What It Leaves Unsaid
  34. US Sunset Review Keeps OCTG Duties on Five Origins, But the Numbers Say More About Company Selection Than Country Risk
  35. Canada's C$8.7 Billion Steel Rescue: The Arithmetic Doesn't Close, and That Matters
  36. EnerMech's Undisclosed UK CCS Commissioning Award: What a Late-Stage Scope Tells Us About Britain's CO2 Infrastructure Build-Out
  37. UNESID's €43 Million Gap Is the Symptom, Not the Problem: Spain's Steel Sector Needs a Structural Energy Fix
  38. South Africa's State Steel Rescue: What the IDC–ArcelorMittal Deal Actually Buys
  39. CMRG and Rio Tinto: a deal reported, but not yet a settlement the market can price
  40. IFM Takes Control of Associated British Ports: A Pension-Fund Bet on Ports as Energy Infrastructure
  41. Fenix's Beebyn Ramp-Up Is the Real Test Behind Its Maintained 4.7–5.3 Mt Guidance
  42. Woodside's three-project ledger: Scarborough nears first cargo while Louisiana LNG quietly resets the steel supply map
  43. China's New Innovation Integration Opinion: What It Actually Changes for Metals and Materials
  44. The EU ETS Market Stability Reserve keeps its ratchet: what the 700 million threshold means for carbon-exposed industry
  45. The UK's £9.69 CBAM Steel Rate: A Small Number That Hides a Much Larger Pivot to Actual Emissions Reporting
  46. Gdańsk FSRU clears its marine substructure: what 500 driven piles actually signal for Poland's second LNG gateway
  47. Seoul's Nuclear Diplomacy Turns Defensive: What the Dukovany Steering Committee Meeting Reveals About Europe's Content Rules
  48. Europe's car CO2 deal gives green steel a compliance market — but the fine print will decide whether it works
  49. China's New Industrial Base Plan: What the 15th Five-Year Framework Actually Commits To — and What It Leaves for Later
  50. Boluo's RMB 8bn signing: reading a Pearl River Delta steel-structure price hub for what it actually signals
  51. Beijing Warns London Against 'Dancing to Europe's Tune' on Chinese EVs — and the Real Fight Is Legal, Not Tariff Rates
  52. China's scrap market on 19 October: flat indices, divergent mill signals — reading Mysteel's daily page correctly
  53. Korea Is Turning Corporate Restructuring Into an Investment Pipeline — and MK Steel Shows How Thin the Public Record Is
  54. POSCO and Hanwha Ocean Take High-Manganese Steel Into the Last Fortress of Nickel: The LNG Cargo Tank
  55. Berwick Bank B's Seaway7 deal is a bet on 60-metre monopiles — and a 2027 decision nobody has taken yet
  56. Five of 24: Europe's Scrap Export Map Is About to Shrink, and BIR Is Fighting the Clock
  57. FERC's LNG Blanket Authorization: What the Three-Tier Fast Track Does and Does Not Change
  58. Southern Italy's Dual Disruption: Trucker Blockades and the Ilva Endgame Are Now One Problem
  59. Five Unnamed Chinese Firms Sanctioned for Trade-Secret Theft: Reading MOFCOM's AI-Framed Rebuttal — and What It Leaves Unsaid
  60. Steel Dynamics' record quarter was a spread story, not a volume story — and that distinction matters
  61. Jackdaw Gets Its Consent Two Years After the Last Bolt Was Torqued — And That Is the Real Story
  62. Vale's "10% Underwater" Claim: A Marginal Cost Signal Buried Under a Bear Market in Iron Ore
  63. China's MIIT puts carbon, not energy, at the centre of industrial compliance: reading the 2026–2030 dual-control plan
  64. The 20K Subsea Tree Becomes a Product Line: Reading BP's TechnipFMC MoU as a Standardisation Play, Not an Order
  65. Port Hedland's 2 Mt/y HBI Plant Clears Federal Approvals — Now the Hard Part Begins
  66. BHP's Record Quarter Is a Tonnage Story. The P&L Is a Price Story.
  67. Europe's Innovation Fund Is Quietly Buying Industrial Capability, Not Just Tonnes of CO₂
  68. UK Steel's £90.55/MWh number is the right warning, but the wrong headline: what the 2026-27 electricity gap really tells us about Britain's EAF transition
  69. MIIT Takes Its Solid Waste and Ecological Code Message to Tangshan — and the Audience Was Provincial Regulators, Not Mill Managers
  70. Australia's ATRC Kills a New-Exporter Review Over Missing Paperwork — and Why That Matters for Chinese HSS Exporters
  71. China Rewrites the Dual-Use "Doubt" Playbook: What Announcement No. 52 Changes for Exporters
  72. US steel output hits 80.9% capability utilisation: reading the 4.1% weekly jump correctly
  73. Brazil's HRC Export Machine Stalls: What a 2,300-Tonne Month Really Tells Us About Section 232 at 50%
  74. Sumitomo Opens the UK's First 525 kV HVDC Cable Plant at Nigg — What It Actually Changes
  75. Europe's downstream industries close ranks on CBAM — and the real fight is about where the carbon cost lands
  76. Berwick Bank B: Seaway7's Preferred-Supplier Nod Puts 90 Foundations — and a 60-Metre Water-Depth Record — on the 2027 FID Clock
  77. SMA Takes Its Permitting Case to the WSJ — and to a Congress That Has to Decide What 'Bipartisan' Means
  78. Russia's Steel Export Squeeze: Grain Takes the Ships, Rail Takes the Tonnage, Mills Absorb the Cost
  79. China Puts TBMs on the Export Control List: What Announcement No. 50 Actually Does
  80. Reading Mysteel's Hebei Rebar Hub: What a Post-Holiday Destocking Week Actually Tells Us
  81. The Super-Credit Squeeze: Why WV Stahl Fears Steel Will Lose the Green Premium in Europe's Car Market
  82. China's September Steel Data: A Weak Month Masked by a Softer Cumulative Decline
  83. Korea and Chile Restart Their FTA Machinery After Ten Years — With Minerals, Not Tariffs, as the Real Agenda
  84. Outer Dowsing moves from consent to steel: Wood Thilsted takes on detailed design of up to 100 monopiles
  85. Metinvest Bets on a Wartime Exception: Ukraine's Case Against Being Counted Among the EU's Steel Surplus
  86. Australia Opens a Bespoke Duty Channel for a Chinese Al-Zn Coater That Never Sold There
  87. Beijing Adds Tunnel Boring Machines to Export Control List and Reworks Dredger Rules — What the 30-Day Window Actually Implies
  88. Fugro's South Coast survey is done — now EirGrid has to turn seabed data into a deliverable grid
  89. China Rewrites Its Dredger Export Controls Around Component Parameters — and Forces Exporters to Self-Classify
  90. China's Long Steel Exports: Rebar Carries the Basket as Wire Rod Slips and Sections Turn Volatile
  91. Veja Mate's 200 MW Balancing Offer: What Offshore Wind's Largest Reserve Pool Actually Signals for the German Market
  92. US HRC imports jumped 64% in August — but the numbers say volatility, not a trend
  93. A 1 Yuan Move in Chinese Spiral Pipe Prices: Reading Mysteel's Ganzi Page for What It Actually Says
  94. China and the EU Buy a Truce, Not a Settlement: Reading the Second Trade and Investment Consultation
  95. Beijing scrap stainless drops 200–300 yuan/t on 16 October, but the story is regional co-movement, not a Beijing event
  96. China's Ductile Iron Market Is Flat Everywhere — Which Is the Story, Not the Detail
  97. Huainan's Flat Week: Why a Stable 1/3 Coking Coal Quote Says More About Supply Than Demand
  98. AISI Backs EPA's Power-Plant Carbon Rollback — But the Relief Is Narrower Than the Headline Suggests
  99. Acciona Wins Preferred Status on Gippsland Link — But Victoria Has Handed Over More Than a Transmission Line
  100. Interior Asks a Court for Permission to Reopen Revolution Wind's Approval — For a Farm Already Sending Power to the Grid