Blogs by worldsteel experts and occasionally by guest bloggers. The blogs cover a wide variety of issues affecting the steel industry. We hope you will find this section useful and look forward to your comments.

30 April 2020

Blog: COVID-19 and steelmaking raw materials

Baris Çiftçi, Head, Strategic Initiatives at worldsteel looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the steel industry’s upstream sectors.

Blog: The future of global scrap availability

worldsteel’s Head of Raw Materials Markets, Baris Çiftçi, discusses global ferrous scrap availability projections and what this means.

13 February 2018

Blog: Is it time for China to switch to electric arc furnace steelmaking?

Frank Zhong, worldsteel Beijing office Chief Representative and Advisor on economics, raw materials and markets, discusses the future of electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking in China.