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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Siemens to Install Secondary Dedusting Systems in Ilva Sinter Plants in Italy
12 August 2013 - Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from Ilva S.p.A to equip the company's two sinter plants at its Taranto steel mill in Italy with secondary dedusting systems.
Danieli Corus Commissions India's Largest Blast Furnace
08 August 2013 - Danieli Corus BV has commissioned the greenfield blast furnace No. 5 built for SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) at its Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha, India.
Republic Steel's Canton Facility Experiences Tranformer Failure
06 August 2013 - Republic Steel experienced a failure at the transformer that supplies power to the #7 furnace in its Canton, Ohio, melt shop on 2 August 2013. This failure is being investigated and will result in an outage of its #7 back-up furnace lasting between two and eight weeks.
Mechel Holds Successful Testing of Equipment for Coking Coal Equipment
05 August 2013 - Russia’s Mechel OAO announced it has successfully tested equipment that produces coking coal concentrate at the Elga coal deposit's seasonal washing plant in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
NLMK Installs Pulverized Coal Injection System
01 August 2013 - NLMK has started hot testing pulverized coal injection (PCI) into its blast furnaces at its main production site in Lipetsk, Russia.
Midrex and JSW to Convert DR Plant to Use Coke Oven Gas
29 July 2013 - Midrex Technologies and JSW Steel have announced the signing of a contract to modify the existing MIDREX® direct reduction plant located at JSW-Dolvi Works to utilize coke oven gas to supplement its natural gas supply for production of direct reduced iron.
Siemens Designs Sinter Plant for Ukrainian Steel Producer EMZ
29 July 2013 - Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from the Metinvest Group to carry out detailed engineering work on a new sinter plant for PJSC Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works (EMZ), a Ukrainian steel producer.
ArcelorMittal Zenica Makes Major Environmental Upgrades
24 July 2013 - ArcelorMittal Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has made good progress in the implementation of a number of large environmental projects, with a total investment of more than US$14.5m.
Dragon Steel Starts Up Second Siemens-Supplied Sinter Plant
23 July 2013 - Production operations recently commenced at the new 3.8 million tons per annum No. 2 sinter plant at Dragon Steel Corp. in Taiwan.
Danieli Corus Receives Order from Tata Steel
12 July 2013 - Danieli Corus has received an order from Tata Steel for a blow-down, salamander tap and blow-in services for blast furnace “G” at Jamshedpur.
China Steel Successfully Commissions New Paul Wurth INBA System
10 July 2013 - China Steel Corp. (CSC) has successfully commissioned the first of two new slag granulation systems with INBA® dewatering technology for its blast furnace no. 4 at the Kaohsiung steel works in Taiwan.
Global Direct Reduced Iron Production Sets New Record in 2012
09 July 2013 - Total production of direct reduced iron (DRI) topped 74 million tons globally in 2012, setting yet another new record for the industry, according to data compiled by Midrex Technologies, Inc. and audited by World Steel Dynamics.
voestalpine Signs Contract with Siemens and Midrex for Direct Reduction Plant
08 July 2013 - The voestalpine Group has announced the signing of a contract with Siemens Industry Inc. and consortium partner Midrex Technologies, Inc. to build a new MIDREX® direct reduction (DR) plant for its previously announced DR project in North America.
Latest Test Campaign to Develop HIsarna Technology Completed
08 July 2013 - The third campaign on a pilot low-carbon iron making plant at Tata Steel’s IJmuiden works in the Netherlands was successfully completed during the last week of June 2013.
Danieli Corus to Upgrade PCI System for Tata Steel
24 June 2013 - Danieli Corus has received an order from Tata Steel for the engineering, materials supply, supervision and erection services for upgrading the PCI system at its blast furnace “G” in Jamshedpur, India.
AK Steel Reports Incident at Middletown Works Blast Furnace
24 June 2013 - AK Steel Corporation said today that the blast furnace at its Middletown Works facility in Ohio experienced a mechanical failure in the charging apparatus internal to the furnace on 22 June 2013.
Metinvest Says Best Available Technology Will Be Used in EMZ's New Sinter Plant
18 June 2013 - Metinvest has signed a contract with the metallurgical equipment manufacturer Siemens VAI for the detailed engineering of a new sinter plant at the Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works (EMZ).
AUMUND Commissions New Conveyor at Tata Steel IJmuiden
17 June 2013 - The successful commissioning of an AUMUND metal plate conveyor type KZB-S 2400/250/6 has now been completed at Tata Steel's plant in IJmuiden in the Netherlands.
Desulfurization of Coke Plant at ArcelorMittal Ostrava Nearing Completion
10 June 2013 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava has launched the final stage of its coke oven gas desulphurization process optimization. By the end of the year the company plans to commission two new pieces of equipment at the coke plant that will reduce concentration of hydrogen sulfide in cleaned coke oven gas.
Pakistan's First Direct Reduction Plant Begins Operations
31 May 2013 - Saudi Arabia’s Al-Tuwairqi Holding announced that its new MIDREX® MEGAMOD® direct reduction plant at Tuwairqi Steel Mills, Ltd. in Karachi, Pakistan, began operating at the beginning of this year.
