Mill Upgrades & Capital Investments
New mills, mill upgrades and other projects requiring an expenditure of capital.
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Nucor Announces Plans to Double Capacity of Gallatin Sheet Mill
07 September 2018 - Nucor Corp.’s board of directors has greenlighted a US$650 million expansion of its Kentucky sheet mill, the company said on Friday.
POSCO Plans Multibillion Investment in Steel Plants
04 September 2018 - The world’s fifth-largest steelmaker said it is planning to invest the equivalent of US$23.2 billion in its steel plants over the next five years as part of a broader capital spending program.
Primetals Technologies Bags Order for Wire Rod Mill
04 September 2018 - JSW Steel has awarded a contract to Primetals Technologies for a new wire rod mill to be built at the steelmaker’s Vijayanagar works in India.
thyssenkrupp Reveals Plans for 10th Galvanizing Line
04 September 2018 - thyssenkrupp will add a new hot-dipped galvanizing line to its Dortmund plant in Germany, the company has said.
SMS group Scores Contract for Plate Mill Upgrade
24 August 2018 - Denmark’s NLMK DanSteel has awarded a contract to SMS group to overhaul its heavy plate mill, the equipment manufacturer has announced.
Tata Steel Works Starts Up New Cooling System
24 August 2018 - Tata Steel Europe’s Port Talbot facility in Wales expects to gain 150,000 metric tons of annual capacity from new equipment installed on the hot strip mill, according to an announcement from Primetals Technologies.
ArcelorMittal Decides to Proceed With US$330M Plant Expansion
22 August 2018 - ArcelorMittal Brazil is dusting off plans for a long-shelved expansion of its sheet processing facility in state of Santa Catarina, saying that there is finally enough demand to support the automotive-oriented project.
Project Aims to Improve Energy Recovery at Cogen Plant
08 August 2018 - A Polish cogeneration plant is installing a pair of energy recovery turbines in between blast furnace flues and the cogen plant itself, essentially putting the exhaust gases to work twice.
Primetals Technologies, Danieli Tapped for Caster Improvements
02 August 2018 - Two Italian steelmakers are upgrading continuous casters in a bid to increase capacity and improve product quality, according to separate announcements from the equipment suppliers on the projects.
Severstal Plans Stamp Charged Coke Plant
30 July 2018 - Coke oven and blast furnace specialist Paul Wurth has won a contract to build two stamp-charged coke batteries for Severstal’s Cherepovets steel works in Russia, the company has announced.
Nucor Lays Bet on New Electroplating Process
27 July 2018 - Nucor Corp. is investing in a start-up company developing a chrome-plating process that substitutes toxic hexavalent chromium for a trivalent chromium, its safer form.
SMS group to Build Meltshop for New Austrian Mill
27 July 2018 - SMS group has been chosen to outfit the meltshop at a planned special steel plant in Austria, the equipment supplier said on Friday.
Danieli Awarded Contract for Chinese Micro-Mill
25 July 2018 - Chinese steelmaker Guilin Pinggang Iron & Steel has ordered a Danieli micro-mill, handing the equipment supplier its 15th order globally for such facilities.
Red Bud Industries Lands Order for Coil Processing Line
25 July 2018 - Red Bud Industries has won an order for a 60-inch, high-speed slitting line from an Illinois-based service center, the coil processing equipment manufacturer has announced.
Ohio Steel Processor Announces Expansion
23 July 2018 - Coil processor Fulton County Processing will add a fourth slitting line to its Delta, Ohio, facility, increasing its overall capacity to 1.2 million tons annually, the company has announced.
SeAH Returns Upgraded Converter to Service
11 July 2018 - South Korean stainless producer SěAH CSS has completed upgrades to the 100-ton converter at its Changwon mill, according to the contractor on the project.
Primetals Technologies Receives Final OK on German Furnace Improvements
10 July 2018 - German stainless and nickel alloy producer BGH Edelstahlwerke GmbH has signed the final acceptance certificate on upgrades to an electric arc furnace, according to the equipment supplier on the project.
Turkish SBQ Mill Plans Caster Upgrade
06 July 2018 - Turkey’s Diler Demir Celik has awarded a contract to Danieli for upgrades to a 19-year-old caster at its Dilovasi special bar quality plant near Istanbul.
Spanish Steelmaker Turns to MORE for Automated EAF Solution
06 July 2018 - Italian electric arc furnace equipment maker MORE has received orders for two of its automatic taphole filling and inspection systems.
Fives Bags Orders for Chinese Cold Mills
06 July 2018 - Equipment manufacturer Fives has won separate contracts for cold rolling mills from two Chinese mills, the company has said.
