Aluminium prices hit highest level of 2025 – Stainless Espresso

Oct 16, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

15 October 2025 – Aluminium prices have been on a steady upward path all year, hitting their highest level yet on the LME yesterday. While the EU pressures the US government to lift tariffs on steel derivatives, it simultaneously plans to impose new import...

Brussels’ Steel Tariff Proposal Puts Europe’s Industrial Backbone at Risk – Press Release

Oct 15, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

Brussels / Berlin, 15 October 2025 – The European Commission’s new draft regulation on the successor to the EU Safeguard Measure on certain steel products is triggering strong criticism from European industry representatives. According to Gerber Group, the...

Steel: German Social Democrats call for nationalisation of steel mills – Stainless Espresso

Oct 15, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

15 October 2025 – Raise steel tariffs, expand CBAM, hand out billions in tax money as election gifts, nationalise steel mills: the Social Democrats (SPD) want to “save” Germany’s steel mills. But with their newly published position paper...

Is Sweden’s green steel mill facing collapse? – Stainless Espresso

Oct 14, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

14 October 2025 – Most European primary steel producers have already abandoned the idea of green steel production, effectively calling the EU Green Deal into question. Now, a Swedish project to produce “sustainable” green steel may also be in...

Stainless steel: Only contingents in the EU from mid-2026? – Stainless Espresso

Oct 13, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

13 October 2025 – Are EU stainless steel mills planning to sell only on a contingents basis from 2026 in response to the European Commission’s new steel protection plans? Meanwhile, a fire at a US aluminium plant has halted 40% of the country’s...