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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the impact that the closure of the Newcastle Works and ArcelorMittal South Africa’s long-steel business is having downstream in the steel industry. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Demand for specialised stainless steel grades is showing signs of growth in several South African industries, although challenging economic conditions are making customers increasingly price-sensitive, says stainless steel supplier Valbruna South Africa GM Desmond Nundlall. There has been an increase in demand for precipitation-hardening stainless steels – including 17-4 and 15-5 grades, which are used in the mining sector, and 416R stainless steel for firearms manufacture – while smaller increases have been recorded in the mechanical seals industry.]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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            <title>Stainless steel demand remains project-driven</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s stainless steel demand remains resilient, but tends to fluctuate, with customers focusing on maintenance, plant reliability and projects where corrosion resistance and life-cycle costs can be justified, says industrial materials and engineering products supplier EMVAfrica business development manager Bradley Klassen. Demand remains strong in the sectors of mining and mineral processing, water and wastewater, food and beverage, petrochemicals, power generation, pulp and paper, as well as general processes.]]></description>
            <author>Devina Haripersad</author>
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            <title>Itac calls for comment on proposed new steel tariffs and rebates</title>
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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>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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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>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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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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            <title>Awards to highlight successes amid challenging environment</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 Steel Awards take place within a challenging operating environment and during industry body the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction’s (SAISC’s) seventieth anniversary year, which makes the event “particularly significant”, says SAISC CEO Amanuel Gebremeskel. “The steel construction sector is operating in a challenging environment. There are real concerns around material availability, tariff pressures, infrastructure delivery, competitiveness and consistent material quality, and SAISC is actively engaged in many of those discussions.]]></description>
            <author>Nadine James</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the Industrial Development Corporation’s recent loss and some of the big policy choices that could affect its role and outlook.]]></description>
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