PRESS RELEASE

News portal expands coverage to end-use industries and specialty steels

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London, U.K. - October 25th 2005 Steelonthenet.com, the international steel industry news and information portal, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its newsfeed services, such that coverage is now broader and deeper.

Newsfeeds have been broadened to include market and industry news covering all the main high quality steel groupings, including alloy steels, electrical (silicon) steels, engineering steels, high speed steel, stainless steel and tool steel. To access these feeds, visit http://www.steelonthenet.com/qualities.php.

The news coverage has also been deepened, and now extends to all the main steel consuming industries. These include the latest world news reports from the automotive, construction, fabrication, oil and gas, packaging, and shipbuilding sectors. The view these feeds, site visitors should visit http://www.steelonthenet.com/industries.php.

Commenting on the expansion of the news coverage, CEO Andrew M Kotas said "The even better news is that all our new newsfeeds are also available as RSS feeds, for free syndication over the net. This means that these feeds can be accessed and displayed by any website, or displayed on any desktop using standard news aggregator reader software. This development thus makes use of the latest news distribution technologies for the benefit of our steel industry audience".

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For further information, contact: admin@steelonthenet.com
Press enquiries: +44 (0) 775-149-0885

Dr Andrew M Kotas
Steelonthenet.com
http://www.steelonthenet.com


NOTES FOR EDITORS

About Steelonthenet.com
Steelonthenet.com is a global steel industry news, statistics and information portal that also provides clients with iron and steel sector research, management consulting and other professional services. The site was launched in October 2001, and is owned by UK-based Metals Consulting International Limited.

About RSS
XML, developed in the late 1990s, is the widely used standard for information exchange between Internet applications. RSS denotes 'Really Simple Syndication', and uses a lightweight XML format for sharing text-based information. RSS is thus the standard that is emerging for publishing, distributing and updating regular updates to website content, including news headlines, articles, and blog postings.

If you have any comments concerning this press release (including questions about access to or free subscription the new RSS newsfeeds) please contact our website administrator.