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📢 We would like to thank the attendees and our esteemed sponsors—İçdaş, Belgian Scrap Terminal - BST, Ege Çelik, Link Inspection, and Metalfer Group—for their contributions to the SteelOrbis 2026 Fall Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting, held in Belgrade between September 27-29! ✔️ The three-day conference brought together 302 registered delegates from a total of 41 different countries, including 96 representatives from 36 different manufacturers. Additionally, 75 registered participants representing 43 different raw material suppliers attended the conference. ▶️ Videos of the conference presentations will be available on the SteelOrbis YouTube channel, and photos will be featured in the October issue of SteelOrbis Prime Magazine. 📌 SteelOrbis 2027 Spring Conference &The 96th IREPAS meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria!

On the third and final day of the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting in Belgrade, Alex Gordienko, F.D. Baysal and Jens Björkman, representing the raw material suppliers, steel producers and traders committees, respectively, met with the participants to share the conclusions of their closed-door committee meetings and then answered questions from the audience. Alex Gordienko: Producers remain somewhat more optimistic than current market conditions might suggest Jens Björkman: Higher freight, energy and financing costs, together with potential restrictions on scrap exports, are putting pressure on steelmaking raw material trade F.D. Baysal: Steel trade is becoming more regional as tariffs, freight risks and additional import requirements complicate transactions

"Geopolitical risks are expected to play an increasingly important role in determining freight costs alongside the underlying balance between vessel supply and cargo demand." Geopolitical disruptions are increasingly affecting steel trade flows, voyage lengths and freight costs, according to Maria Bertzeletou, senior market analyst at The Signal Group, speaking at the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting in Belgrade.

"Steel has become a strategic asset rather than merely a tradable commodity, as geopolitical competition increasingly extends to tariffs, sanctions, export controls, energy, logistics and financial systems" Geopolitical fragmentation is reshaping global steel trade, with market access, supply chain reliability and regulatory compliance becoming increasingly important competitive factors alongside production costs and prices, according to geopolitical strategist and FACE founder Velina Tchakarova, speaking at the SteelOrbis 2026 Fall Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting held in Belgrade on September 27-29.

Jerónimo Casas: Early planning for CBAM reporting is particularly important for iron and steel supply chains. Jerónimo Casas, global product manager for Climate Change and Sustainability Solutions at SGS, discussed verifier accreditation, emissions monitoring, data integrity and reporting deadlines in his “Spotlight on CBAM” presentation at the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting.

"DRI should be considered a supplement to scrap rather than a substitute." Global demand for direct reduced iron (DRI) is expected to increase significantly over the coming decades, driven by the steel industry's decarbonization efforts, growing electric arc furnace (EAF) production and constraints in the availability of high-quality scrap, according to Vincent Chevrier, general manager at Midrex Technologies, Inc, speaking at the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting held in Belgrade on September 28.

"Small and fragmented domestic markets combined with limited import protection had exposed the Balkan steel industry to lower-priced imports." Branko Zecevic, president of Serbia-based steelmaker Metalfer Group, focused on rising protectionism that is structurally changing global steel trade, requiring producers to focus increasingly on their domestic and nearby markets, during his presentation at the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting in Belgrade. In a presentation titled “The Tide Has Turned”, Zecevic stated that three decades of trade liberalization had encouraged the development of subsidized steelmaking capacity geared towards exports, while higher-cost producers in mature markets lost market share to cheaper imports.

"Traditional global steel cycle is breaking into many regional cycles." Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2026 Fall Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting held in Belgrade on September 27-29, Alex Gordienko, export director of Spain’s CELSA Group, stated that the global steel industry continues to operate under significant pressure from oversupply and weakening long steel consumption, despite the relatively resilient outlook for the global economy.

"Demand is not currently determining the direction of the market, with rising costs instead becoming the key factor." Ioannis Manessis, chairman of IREPAS, the global association for longs producers and exporters, has delivered the welcome speech at the SteelOrbis Fall 2026 Conference & 95th IREPAS Meeting, being held in Belgrade, Serbia, on September 27-29. The conference has attracted 300 participants, including 96 representatives from 36 steel producers coming from 15 countries and 75 delegates from 43 raw material suppliers. Icdas was the main sponsor of the event, while the other sponsors included BST, Ege Çelik, Link Inspection and Metalfer Group.

⏳ 2 Days to SteelOrbis and IREPAS Conference Join the gathering of the world long steel market in Belgrade! SteelOrbis is excited to announce that the second gathering of SteelOrbis and IREPAS in 2026 will be held at the Metropol Palace Belgrade on September 27-29. While gathering its members and participants together at the world's number one event for long steel products and creating unique networking opportunities, the SteelOrbis and IREPAS Conference will also offer you the chance to listen to informative presentations about the latest developments in the markets! ✔️ Over 250 Participants Have Registered - Join Them Today: event.steelorbis.com/en/95th…

🌍 World crude steel output down 1.2 percent in August 2026 Global crude steel production in August this year decreased by 1.2 percent year on year to 144.2 million mt, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In the January-August period this year, global crude steel production decreased by 0.7 percent year on year to 1.22 billion mt. In August, crude steel output in Asia and Oceania amounted to 106.7 million mt, down 1.4 percent, with China's output at 74.6 million mt, down 3.7 percent, with 6.7 million mt produced by Japan, increasing by 0.4 percent, 14.8 million mt produced by India, rising by 4.6 percent, and 5.4 million mt produced by South Korea, moving up by 2.6 percent - with all comparisons on year-on-year basis. EU-27 countries produced 8.9 million mt of crude steel in August, down by 1.0 percent year on year. In the given month, Turkey's output amounted to 3.4 million mt, down 0.4 percent year on year. Germany produced 2.6 million mt of crude steel in August with a 1.7 percent increase compared to the same month in the previous year. The CIS registered a crude steel output of 6.3 million mt, falling by 5.6 percent on year-on-year basis, with Russia's estimated output at 5.5 million mt, down 0.3 percent year on year. In North America, in August, crude steel output totaled 9.4 million mt, up by 3.9 percent year on year, with the US producing 7.3 million mt, rising by 3.0 percent, both year on year... 🔗 Visit steelorbis.com to read more