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            <description><![CDATA[Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), environmental services company Veolia and Norwegian developing country investment fund Norfund have entered into a development agreement to advance a portfolio of practical, investable energy, water and resource-efficiency projects across AMSA’s operations. The structured project development programme aims to convert identified decarbonisation and resource efficiency opportunities into technically sound, commercially viable and potentially bankable projects.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has released preliminary determinations arising from the second phase of its wide-ranging steel tariff review, which has so far attracted significant public interest. The preliminary determinations were published on September 18, and Itac has set aside four weeks for public comment.]]></description>
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            <title>Call made for extended long-steel rebate coverage amid reports of shortages</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are fresh moves under way to persuade government to implement additional duty rebates on long-steel products being imported into South Africa amid reports of supply shortages that have arisen after the closure by ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) of its longs business. Following the first phase of a wide-ranging steel tariff review, duties were increased from 0% to 10% in May across all long-steel imports, including on bars, rods, wire, sections and structural steel.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Melville Sugar Mill in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province is a sign of what used to be and what the future might hold. Trees have grown through the two brick chimneys of the mill, which closed in 1978. The sugar-cane trucks now wend their way past it on a gravel road as schoolchildren snatch up the falling stalks to suck out the sweet juice. Consolidation and struggling businesses have seen a wave of mills close.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industry organisation the Recycling Association of South Africa (RASA) has called for the suspension of the Price Preference System (PPS), under which South Africa recyclers must first offer scrap at a 30% discount to local steel mills and pay the freight to a domestic mill before being permitted to export it. In July, South Africa exported 113 000 t of primary steel products, of which 25 862 t was semi-finished steel products, including billets, blooms and slabs.]]></description>
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            <title>IDC approaches National Treasury for explicit guarantee to bolster development mandate</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has confirmed that it has approached the National Treasury for an explicit guarantee, which it says will enable it to attract more concessional funding to meet its development mandate. The State-owned development financier has also approached the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to explore the prospect of being granted tax exemptions similar to those in place for the Development Bank of Southern Africa.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Tsingshan may triple output at its Zimbabwe steel plant</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tsingshan Holding Group is considering as much as tripling output at a Zimbabwe steel plant it started in 2024, an expansion that could add to pressure on South Africa’s struggling steel industry as much of its production is exported to that country. Output of the Manhizhe steel plant, 205 kilometers (128 miles) southeast of the capital Harare may be raised to as much two-million tons from 600 000 t currently, said Benson Xu, chief executive officer of Tsingshan’s Zimbabwean unit.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) insists that it is fundamentally stronger than was the case 18 months ago and that “profitability is within reach”, after reporting a headline loss of R1.49-billion during the first half of 2026. The JSE-listed company had, over the past 18 months, placed its longs business into care and maintenance, leading to the closure of the Newcastle Works in KwaZulu-Natal, which contributed to some of the nonrecurring costs during the period.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) said on Thursday its half-year loss widened by 47%, with the business weighed down by weak steel prices and an influx of steel imports, mainly from China. The South African unit of global steelmaker ArcelorMittal posted a headline loss of R1.49-billion for the six months ended June 30, from a headline loss of R1.01-billion previously.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industry organisation the Recycling Association of South Africa (RASA) has lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission about the alleged extended blocking of export permit applications in the ferrous scrap metal market by dominant buyers, as well as the alleged use of brokers to signal and coordinate significant price movements. This conduct appears to have been designed to suppress prices at the collection gate through the manipulation of market conditions, RASA says.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Opinion: South Africa’s steel debate is still too narrow</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this article, South African Iron and Steel Institute secretary general Charles Dednam writes that South Africa must look beyond only the volumes of steel being imported into the country and should also consider how much of the country's manufacturing base is being displaced by imported goods made from steel elsewhere?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) hosted its AGM this week and also released its annual report. As the recognised voice of South Africa’s PV industry, representing almost 500 members across the value chain, Creamer Media’s Terence Creamer used the opportunity to pose some questions to CEO Dr Rethabile Melamu on the state of the industry and its outlook. The questions and Melamu’s responses follow.]]></description>
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            <title>BMI lower 2026 steel price forecast, owing to weaker demand</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Market research and analysis company BMI has lowered its 2026 forecast for the global steel price slightly to $620/t, down from $625/t in its previous forecast, owing to weaker expected steel demand outside Mainland China following the deterioration in the global macroeconomic backdrop since March. As a result of the US-Iran conflict, BMI's Macro team has lowered its 2026 global growth forecast to 2.4%, down from 2.8% before the conflict began.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Delays to green steel projects are growing and government support is far short of what is needed, jeopardising the industry's drive to cut emissions, steel associations warned at an annual meeting in Singapore this week. About half of the world's planned green steel projects have already been delayed, while governments have committed just $20-billion of the $1.5-trillion needed to decarbonise the sector, according to the World Steel Association.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the release of a new Industrial Development Strategy at a time when the metals sector is warning that it is at a worrying crossroads.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African steel industry – encompassing the full value chain, from upstream producers to downstream manufacturers and fabricators – has been described as being at a deindustrialisation ‘inflection point’. The dire state of the sector, as well as the ineffectiveness of the prevailing interventions being pursued under the Steel Master Plan to arrest the sector’s decline, came into sharp focus during a Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition meeting on Wednesday.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>South Africa proposes extending auto incentives to battery materials</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa plans to add to its automotive incentive programme minerals used in the manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries to boost local EV production and support related supply chains. The government is reviewing its automotive policy to address the global shift toward electric and hybrid vehicles, tightening emissions rules and rising competition from low-cost imports, particularly from China and India.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The key to rescuing South Africa’s ailing steel industry, in which a unit of ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) is feuding with smaller competitors, is by growing demand rather than fixating on export controls, the country’s chief trade regulator said. AMSA last year shut a steel mill, citing competition from so-called mini-mills that use scrap metal as their feedstock rather than iron ore. The company, which still runs Africa’s biggest steelmaking plant south of Johannesburg, has demanded the government end a 20% tax on the export of scrap, which it says reduces the cost of the material for its rivals.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global demand for steel is estimated to grow by 0.3% this year to 1.72-billion tonnes, and by 2.2% in 2027 to reach 1.76-billion tonnes, global organisation the World Steel Association (worldsteel) reports in its latest ‘Short-Range Outlook’. “Global steel demand is bottoming out over the 2025 to 2026 period. This follows a protracted and challenging phase of global structural adjustments that has suppressed demand since 2022.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industry organisation the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC) has raised concerns about the unintended consequences of the recent implementation of antidumping tariff measures on selected steel imports, as published by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) on March 20. The SAISC has recommended that consideration be given to a phased or delayed implementation of the tariffs, allowing the market to adjust without disrupting supply chains or ongoing projects.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has gazetted recommendations by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) on new import taxes for steel from China, Japan and Taiwan. Steel imported from these countries is now subject to new import duties of 74.98%, while imports from Thailand are subject to duties of 20.32% for certain products, for a period of five years.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ferrochrome producer Samancor Chrome has issued a retrenchment notice in terms of Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA). It envisages that about 2 400 employees may be retrenched at its smelting operations, including Dikwena Chrome, Ferrometals, Middelburg Ferrochrome, TC Smelter, Tubatse Alloy and Tubatse Ferrochrome, as well as at its corporate offices.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Lion Smelter in Steelpoort, Limpopo, achieved its first ferrochrome production tap on February 16, following the successful recommissioning of 50% of its operating capacity, says natural resources and mining company Glencore. This milestone follows the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s approval of a 12-month interim electricity tariff of 87.74c/kWh. The Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture anticipates that the smelter will return to full operational capacity by the end of March.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African steel processors have approached the country’s biggest development-finance institution with a proposal to help take control of ArcelorMittal SA’s struggling local unit. The industry group, which has six members including labour unions, made a proposal to the state-owned Industrial Development Corp. and includes local processor Allied Steelrode, according to people familiar with the matter.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE-listed industrial minerals and construction materials producer Afrimat, in a pre-close operational update for its financial year ending on February 28, said trading conditions were expected to remain difficult until fair trade protections across critical industries in South Africa were adequately addressed. Afrimat is feeling the impact of pedestrian economic growth and customers who are contending with cheap imports. To counter this, Afrimat is assessing projects where international or local partners and technology can help advance timelines and unlock value for shareholders.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Competition Commission conducted search and seizure operations at the premises of four scrap metal purchasing companies operating in Germiston, Nigel, Vanderbijlpark and Hammanskraal on February 13. The commission says it has reasonable grounds to suspect that the companies have engaged in fixing the purchase price of shredded or processed scrap metal.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In parallel to “expedited” negotiations with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) over its future corporate structuring, ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) is considering partnership and sale opportunities relating to noncore assets and assets currently in care and maintenance. CEO Kobus Verster says the group’s valuation of assets under care and maintenance is “easily north of R5-billion”, and that it intends to begin monetising those assets to reduce its unsustainable net debt of R6.8-billion.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) reported a smaller headline loss of R3.4-billion in 2025 relative to the loss of R5.1-billion posted in 2024 after having closed its long-steel business during the year ended December 31, 2025. The group’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) loss was narrowed by 63% from R2.947-billion in 2024 to R1.1-billion in 2025, which AMSA said had been an exceptionally difficult year for the steel industry. This, owing to weak domestic economic activity, persistent global overcapacity, high import penetration, elevated administered input costs, and continued pressure on steel prices.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[AMSA flags sharply narrower losses for 2025 Steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) expects its losses for the year ended December 31, 2025, to narrow significantly.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the big trade and industrial policy decisions that loom as key minerals processing and manufacturing sectors bend under the weight of high electricity tariffs and surging import competition. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's energy regulator on Thursday approved an application by Eskom to reduce electricity tariffs by 35% for two distressed ferrochrome operations battling high power costs. More than a dozen smelters have shut down in South Africa in recent years, leading to thousands of job losses, largely due to high electricity costs which have surged by more than 900% since 2008.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The World Steel Association (worldsteel) reports that global steel production had reached 1.85-billion tonnes in 2025, a 2% decrease from the 1.89-billion tonnes produced in 2024. The Association notes that China ranked first in global production, having produced 960.8-million tonnes in 2025. The Asian country’s crude steel output was 4.4% lower year-on-year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[ArcelorMittal and South Africa’s biggest development finance institution have resumed talks over the potential acquisition of the Luxembourg-based steel giant’s operations in the African country, after failing to lure other suitors. The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) will submit a nonbinding offer for the business, said the people, who asked to not to be identified because the information is still private. Late last year, talks between the parties fell apart without a deal after ArcelorMittal didn’t accept an informal proposal of about R8.5-billion, which would have included the repayment of R7-billion in debt to the South African unit’s parent.]]></description>
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