Europe (ex-CIS) is one of the major steel producing regions in the world with an average annual production of more than 150 MT steel and accounting for around 8% of the world steel production. On a comparison level it is second only to China and houses some of the biggest…

We have not posted a blog for quite a long time, but it has been a conscientious decision as we became more focused on highlighting our findings and announcements via the LinkedIn company page as short up to date posts. Why one more blog then? Because this merits a little…

The Chinese steel industry is the largest contributor for carbon emissions amongst their designated 31 manufacturing industry sectors, accounting for about 15% of the total emissions as per sources. So no surprise that, in recent times, we have seen lots of news on the country’s move to control or cut…

Almost 98% of the iron ore is used for steelmaking; therefore, tracking the iron ore in the major source or destination ports and the steel mills would be very good leading indicator of the overall crude steel production -> production of slab, billet, bloom ->production of plate, HRC, HRB, pipes…

The increase in industrial activity in manufacturing powerhouses like China and emerging nations has led to an enormous increase in steel demand and the resultant setting up of steel mills, big and small, in these countries. Traditionally there has been a vice versa relationship of these steel mills and the…

In this globalised world, economies all over are getting tightly coupled and performance of any country has a knock-on effect on other countries and this is especially strong when we consider China, the factory of the world. It is the world’s biggest exporter, second largest economy and accounting for more…

If you have read some of our previous blogs, you might have noticed that we have mostly written about how we are using alternative data such as satellite images to provide near real time insights on the production of major steel mills. Such near real time insights are one of…

The Steel Industry seems to be one of worst affected sectors due to the virus outbreak with multiple hammers hitting the backbone of industrial activity. Steelmakers have been cutting down production ever since the virus started affecting the market and governments declared lockdown of its citizens and business activities. In…

At Tathya.Earth, we have been trying to monitor the global steel production insights at near real-time basis using satellite imagery and provide this early information advantage to our clients such as investors, traders, banks and downstream dependent companies. …