Current gas, electricity prices threaten European steelmaking viability: Eurofer

The EU needs to take immediate emergency measures to overcome the region’s current “life-threatening energy crisis,” European Steel Association Eurofer said Sept. 9. High energy prices are putting the viability of steelmaking in Europe at risk, and have forced numerous mills to halt installations, it said. Eurofer’s statement, coinciding with an extraordinary meeting of the EU Energy Council in Brussels,…