Coke, Iron and Alternate Iron Production
News items including recovery and non-recovery coke production as well as blast furnace, iron ore, DRI and other sources of iron.
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Yenakiieve Steel Installs New Blast Air Turbine-Compressor Unit
25 October 2013 - Metinvest Group’s Yenakiieve Steel installed a new turbine and compressor unit to provide additional blast air to the plant’s blast furnaces last week.
Metalloinvest Grows Pig Iron Production Capacities
24 October 2013 - Metalloinvest is implementing a program for growing merchant pig iron production at Ural Steel, which includes modernization of the pig iron smelting facilities at the blast furnace plant.
EAF with DRI Charging System from SMS Siemag Brought Into Operation at Jindal Steel
22 October 2013 - On 7 August 2013, SMS Siemag successfully commissioned an electric steelmaking plant for Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSPL).
ArcelorMittal Announces €92m Investment for Blast Furnace in France
09 October 2013 - ArcelorMittal announced a €92m investment in a complete revamp of the blast furnace no. 2 at its Dunkirk plant in France.
Siemens Modernizing Blast Furnace at Vizag Steel in India
30 September 2013 - Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from the state-owned Indian Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) to thoroughly modernize blast furnace No. 2 at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (Vizag Steel).
POSCO to Export FINEX Steelmaking Technology Overseas for First Time
27 September 2013 - POSCO has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with China’s Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. to construct a FINEX integrated steel works with an annual capacity of 3 million tons.
Storage Dome Collapse at Nucor Steel Louisiana Delays Start-Up of DRI Facility
26 September 2013 - Nucor Corporation announced that on the afternoon of 25 September a storage dome collapsed at Nucor Steel Louisiana in St. James Parish. There were no injuries and no environmental impact. Nucor Steel Louisiana is finishing construction of its new direct reduced iron (DRI) plant on the site and had planned to begin production within a few weeks. Based on a preliminary assessment, the company is currently forecasting the start-up of operations to be delayed until the end of the year.
ArcelorMittal Ostrava Gains EU Funding for Environmental Investments
26 September 2013 - ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in the Czech Republic is co-funding its environmental projects through European Union funds, for the first time in the company’s history. ArcelorMittal Ostrava will use the funding to commission new, cleaner technologies worth CZK 2.6 billion (US$136.7 million) by 2016.
Danieli Corus to Modify Stack Cooling System of BF No. 7 at SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant
24 September 2013 - Danieli Corus has received an order from the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for the modification of the stack cooling system of blast furnace No. 7 at the Bhilai Steel Plant.
Metalloinvest Holds Conference on HBI Applications In Steelmaking
20 September 2013 - Metalloinvest, the only HBI producer in the CIS and the largest producer in Europe, recently held its first “HBI Application in Steelmaking: Technology, Financing and Markets” conference which was organized at Lebedinsky GOK (part of the Metalloinvest group).
AUMUND to Supply DRI Hot Transport Conveyor to JSW in India
18 September 2013 - AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH is supplying a hot transport conveyor (HTC) for the direct charging of hot DRI into the electric arc furnace at JSW Toranagallu in Karnataka Province, India.
New Millennium Iron Announces First Shipment from Tata Steel Minerals Canada's Direct Shipping Ore Project
17 September 2013 - New Millennium Iron Corp. (NML) announced that Tata Steel Minerals Canada (TSMC), in which NML has a 20% interest, has made the first shipment of products from its Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) Project.
Reuters: Hyundai Steel Fires Up 3rd Blast Furnace Amid Fears of Oversupply
13 September 2013 - South Korea's Hyundai Steel fired up its third blast furnace on Friday as it seeks to grasp market share from POSCO and Japan in the alloy used to make cars and ships, sparking fears about over-supply amid weak demand, Reuters reports.
CMI Industry Replaces Two Sinter Hoods for ArcelorMittal Asturias
10 September 2013 - CMI Industry is currently performing the replacement of the two sinter hoods at the ArcelorMittal Asturias steelmaking site in Gijon, Spain.
SunCoke Energy Extends Cokemaking Agreement with ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor
09 September 2013 - SunCoke Energy, Inc. and ArcelorMittal have agreed to a 10-year extension of their existing contract, under which SunCoke provides 1.22 million tons of metallurgical coke annually to ArcelorMittal from its Indiana Harbor cokemaking operation located in East Chicago, Ind.
Plain Dealer: ArcelorMittal Cleveland to Invest $55 Million in Blast Furnace
05 September 2013 - The ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland will invest US$55 million in one of its two blast furnaces, according to Mark Granakis, president of Local 979 of the United Steelworkers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Platts: Russia's Severstal Opts Out of Two Iron Projects to Cut Capex
02 September 2013 - Russian steel and mining group Severstal has withdrawn from further participation in Amapa, its iron ore mining joint venture in northern Brazil with SPG Mineracao, and an iron plant project in North America to cut capital expenditure, chief financial officer Alexei Kulichenko, told a press conference Thursday, Platts reports.
Paul Wurth Performs 24-Hour Preventative Maintenance for ThyssenKrupp CSA
22 August 2013 - On 8 July 2013, the service experts of Paul Wurth do Brasil performed a 24-hour preventive maintenance program at blast furnaces No. 1 and 2 and at the INBA® slag granulation facilities of ThyssenKrupp CSA’s integrated steel plant at Sepetiba Bay in Brazil. It was the first time ever that Paul Wurth was in charge of such a servicing package.
Report: ArcelorMittal Blast Furnace in East Chicago Goes Down
19 August 2013 - A blast furnace has gone down at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor, the largest steelmaking complex in North America, according to a report for the Times of Northwest Indiana.
Report: Japanese Steel Industry to Build Hydrogen Blast Furnace
14 August 2013 - Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and three other steel companies said they will construct an experimental hydrogen-fueled blast furnace to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report on Nikkei.com.
