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Events: Ironing out a Steel Action Plan for a green transition made in Europe

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Events: The Future of EU Industry: Value chain Resilience or Dependence

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Press release: European steel industry on the brink: the EU must act now or risk losing manufacturing, warns EUROFER

Brussels, 27 November 2024 – The European steel industry is at a critical juncture, facing irreversible decline unless the EU and Member States take immediate action to secure its future and green transition. Despite repeated warnings from the sector, the EU leadership and governments have yet to implement decisive measures to preserve manufacturing and allow green investments across Europe. Recent massive production cuts and closure announcements by European steelmakers show that time has run out. A robust European Steel Action Plan under an EU Clean Industrial Deal cannot wait or manufacturing value chains across Europe will simply vanish, warns the European Steel Association.

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Joint statement: EU Steel Action Plan now! Steel industry and steel workers unite to demand urgent action to restore the sector’s competitiveness and save thousands of jobs before it is too late.

Brussels, 12 November 2024 - Ahead of Commissioner-Designate Séjourné’s hearing in the European Parliament, European steel social partners, supported by cross-party MEPs, jointly call for an EU Steel Action Plan to restore steel’s competitiveness, and save its green transition as well as steelworkers’ jobs across Europe.

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Press release: Steel market outlook continues to worsen as demand and consumption decline amid high import shares

Brussels, 29 October 2024 – The European steel market faces an increasingly challenging outlook, driven by a combination of low steel demand, a downturn in steel-using sectors, and persistently high import shares. These factors, combined with a weak overall economic forecast, rising geopolitical tensions, and higher energy costs for the EU compared to other major economic regions, are further deepening the downward trend observed in recent quarters. According to EUROFER’s latest Economic and Steel Market Outlook, apparent steel consumption will not recover in 2024 as previously projected (+1.4%) but is instead expected to experience another recession (-1.8%), although milder than in 2023 (-6%). Similarly, the outlook for steel-using sectors’ output has worsened for 2024 (-2.7%, down from -1.6%). Recovery projections for 2025 are also more modest for both apparent consumption (+3.8%) and steel-using sectors’ output (+1.6%). Steel imports share rose to 28% in the second quarter of 2024.

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Press release: European steel industry on the brink: the EU must act now or risk losing manufacturing, warns EUROFER

Joint statement: EU Steel Action Plan now! Steel industry and steel workers unite to demand urgent action to restore the sector’s competitiveness and save thousands of jobs before it is too late.

Press release: Steel market outlook continues to worsen as demand and consumption decline amid high import shares

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Economic and market outlook: Economic and steel market outlook 2024-2025, fourth quarter

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Joint letter: Steel crisis: urgent meeting and EU summit needed to discuss urgent solutions

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