Mill Upgrades & Capital Investments
New mills, mill upgrades and other projects requiring an expenditure of capital.
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Uttam Galva, POSCO Ink Technology-Sharing Agreement for Indian Joint Venture
29 December 2015 - India’s Uttam Galva Group has signed an agreement to incorporate POSCO’s steelmaking technology in their proposed joint venture plant in Maharashtra, reports The Hindu BusinessLine newspaper.
Minnesota Governor Gives Taconite Producer Final Offer to Repay Loan
29 December 2015 - Essar Steel Minnesota is reviewing a newly proposed timetable for repaying a US$66 million public loan on a project that hasn’t panned out the way officials had hoped.
Keystone Consolidated Industries Expands Reinforcing Wire Mesh Capacity
28 December 2015 - U.S.-based Keystone Consolidated Industries Inc. is adding welded wire reinforcement (WWR) mesh production to its Sherman, Texas, facility, the company has announced.
Baosteel Pulls the Plug on Multi-Billion-Dollar Iron Ore Project
23 December 2015 - China’s Baosteel and its partners are mothballing a proposed US$5.4 billion iron ore project in Australia on account of market conditions, reports BloombergBusiness news service.
U.S. Steel Hits the Pause Button on Its New EAF
22 December 2015 - United States Steel Corporation is halting work on its new electric arc furnace (EAF), saying that the steel and energy markets are simply too weak to support the project.
Cascade Steel Upgrades Oregon Rolling Mill
21 December 2015 - Danieli has won a contract to modernize the finishing end of Cascade Steel Rolling Mill’s Oregon rebar facility, the company has announced.
Fives Wins Contracts for Upgrades at ArcelorMittal Plants
21 December 2015 - Industrial engineering group Fives has won contracts for upgrades to ArcelorMittal facilities in China and Romania, the company has announced.
Nucor Awards Contract for Rod Mill Upgrades
17 December 2015 - Primetals Technologies has won a contract to upgrade coil handling equipment at Nucor Corp.'s Norfolk, Neb.,USA, coiled bar and wire rod mill, the company has announced.
Upgrades to OneSteel Wire Rod Mill Pass Muster
15 December 2015 - Australia’s OneSteel Market Mills has issued a final acceptance certificate for upgrades to its Laverton wire rod mill, according to the contractor on the project.
Tenaris Opens New Service Center in Argentina
14 December 2015 - OCTG manufacturer Tenaris has opened a new service center in Senillosa, Neuquén, Argentina, to better serve customers in Latin America’s largest shale play.
Primetals Completes Caster Modernization at German Slab Mill
10 December 2015 - Primetals Technologies has completed upgrades to the second strand of a twin-slab continuous caster in Germany, Primetals has announced.
Vietnamese Steelmaker Planning New 200K-Ton Rolling Mill
09 December 2015 - Vietnam’s Hoa Sen Group has been awarded an investment certificate for a new US$89-million cold rolling mill in the Binh Dinh province, according to The Saigon Times.
Butech Bliss Wins Order for Hydraulic Roller Leveler
08 December 2015 - U.S.-based Ferralloy Inc. is adding a Butech Bliss Synergy® hydraulic roller leveler to its Decatur, Ala., facility.
Continuous Casters Switched On at New Baosteel Facility
02 December 2015 - Two new continuous slab casters have been put into service at Baosteel’s Zhanjiang works in southern China, according to the supplier.
Primetals Setting Up Briquetting Plant at New HBI Facility
30 November 2015 - Primetals Technologies has won an order for a residuals briquetting plant to be installed at voestalpine’s new hot briquetted iron (HBI) facility in the United States.
Equipment Upgrade Helps ArcelorMittal Expand Piling Products Portfolio
23 November 2015 - ArcelorMittal’s Belval sheet piling mill in Luxembourg has put a new SMS group Compact Roller Straightener into service, allowing the mill to expand its product portfolio, SMS has announced.
POSCO Orders Vertical Annealing Furnace for New Galvanizing Line
19 November 2015 - The Fives engineering group has won a contract to design and build a high-performance vertical annealing furnace for a POSCO plant, the company has announced.
With Steelmaking Still Months Off, Tata Steel Dedicates New Integrated Plant
18 November 2015 - Tata Steel has inaugurated its new 6-million-metric-ton integrated steelworks in India, even though it will be a few more months before steelmaking begins.
Big River Steel Continuing to Push Toward 2016 Start-Up
16 November 2015 - The founder of a new U.S. mill has died and the governor who initially supported the project is no longer in office, but the Big River Steel project is continuing to progress toward a planned start-up in late summer or early fall of 2016, reports the weekly business journal Arkansas Business.
Japan's Kobe Steel Plans Capacity Increase at Wire Rod Processing Mill
10 November 2015 - Kobe Special Steel Wire Products Co. Ltd. said it will invest 1.3 billion yen in new pickling equipment and expects to boost capacity by about 40 percent per month.
