EU long steel mills seek further price rises as production costs climb

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European steel mills hope to achieve further price rises for long steelproducts, driven by rising production costs, sources told MetalBulletin on Wednesday October 4.Rising costs for graphite electrodes, refractories and ferro-alloys inrecent months have led to production cost increases of “almost ?50[$59] per tonne”, one Northern European producer source told MetalBulletin on October 4.