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Reliance Steel & Aluminum Provides Year-End Earnings Guidance

21 January 2010 - Reliance Steel & Aluminum provides earnings guidance for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.

Nucor Foundation Reaches New Milestone in Support of Education

20 January 2010 - Nucor’s Nucor Foundation celebrates a new milestone support of education by awarding $4.4 million in scholarships to nearly 2000 students.

MMK, TMK Extend Partnership

20 January 2010 - MMK and TMK have extended their partnership until 2015 in agreement with a memorandum on strategic cooperation signed in February 2007. Further cooperation was also discussed during a recent meeting, including collaboration regarding Mill 5000 products.

Handan Orders Wire Rod Outlet from Siemens

20 January 2010 - Handan Iron & Steel Co. has ordered a wire rod outlet from Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for a rolling mill in its Handan Works. The new equipment will enable Handan to produce rods from 5 to 22 mm in diameter, with the capability to expand to 25-mm rod, and rebar from 6 to 16 mm.

Yichang Three Gorges Orders Continuous Annealing Lines from SMS Siemag

20 January 2010 - Yichang Three Gorges Quantong Colored and Galvanized Plate Co., Ltd. has placed an order with SMS Siemag for the supply of two continuous annealing lines. Both lines will process ultra-thin sheet, which will then be electroplated and used as packaging material.

ArcelorMittal, BHP Billiton Discuss Combining Iron Ore Interests

20 January 2010 - ArcelorMittal has entered into initial discussions with BHP Billiton to potentially combine their respective iron ore mining and infrastructure interests in Liberia and Guinea within a joint venture.

ArcelorMittal Supports Emergency Intervention in Haiti

19 January 2010 - The ArcelorMittal Foundation supports an intervention from the organization Médecins sans frontières for the victims affected by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Foundation will donate US$100,000 to enable this intervention, which aims to address the needs of around 70,000 people.

Carrington Wire to Wind Down Business

19 January 2010 - Carrington Wire will implement a managed wind down of the business due to continuing losses resulting from a contraction of the steel-wire market. This move includes the closure of the Elland manufacturing plant over the coming months.

Siemens Upgrades Plate Mill at Xiangtan Iron & Steel

19 January 2010 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. to supply equipment for a PowerEdger and a pre-leveler. These new plant components will be installed in the 5-meter plate mill, located in Xiangtan, Hunan Province.

Latrobe Specialty Steel Wins AIST Award for VIM-VAR Expansion

19 January 2010 - The Association for Iron & Steel Technology will present Latrobe Specialty Steel with its 2009 Project Excellence award for the company’s VIM-VAR expansion project.

Blast Furnace Construction Progressing at NLMK

19 January 2010 - Installation of the basic structures at Novolipetsk Steel’s new blast furnace #7, with 3.4 million tonnes annual capacity, has been completed. More than 30% of the work is finished.

Corus to Extend Teesside Operations

18 January 2010 - Corus agrees to the Trade Unions’ request to extend operations at Teesside Cast Products until all the raw materials currently on site have been consumed, or until the end of February, whichever is first.

Stainless, Specialty Imports Still Down More than 50% through October

18 January 2010 - Total stainless imports reached 308,874 tons through October 2009, a 52.5% decrease compared to YTD October 2008 according to the latest report from SSINA. Total specialty imports reached 396,033 tons through the same period, a 52.5% decrease compared to YTD October 2008.

Severstal to Restart Martins Ferry Coating Line

18 January 2010 - Severstal NA recently announced that the Martins Ferry, Ohio, coating line of Severstal Wheeling will return to operation on January 25. The number of recalled employees will vary from week to week based on order entry levels.

Kobe Steel Begins Production using ITmk3 Process

18 January 2010 - The world's first commercial plant using Kobe Steel’s ITmk3 process successfully began production of iron nuggets in the United States on January 12. Production is expected to reach the facility's annual design capacity of 500,000 tonnes in mid-2010.

Harsco Receives Two Mill Services Contracts in the U.S.

18 January 2010 - Harsco Corp. is the recipient of two multiyear specialty metal processing services contracts, including one at a new operating location for Harsco, worth as much as $70 million over their duration. Both contracts are with specialty metals producer ATI Allegheny Ludlum.

AHSS Featured on North American Car and Truck of the Year

15 January 2010 - AISI's Steel Market Development Institute is celebrating the selection of the Ford Fusion hybrid and Ford Transit Connect as the 2010 North American Car and Truck of the Year, respectively. Both vehicles feature advanced high-strength steel technologies.

ArcelorMittal Awards MORE an EAF Equipment Contract

15 January 2010 - MORE srl signs an agreement with ArcelorMittal South Africa for the installation of Module Technology chemical energy package equipment at the company’s Vanderbijlpark Works’ three electric arc furnaces. The contract was won by MORE in cooperation with Linde.

Siemens to Upgrade Caster Capacity at Nizhny Tagil

15 January 2010 - Nizhny Tagil Iron & Steel Works contracts Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to increase the casting capability of its existing two-strand beam-blank/bloom combi-caster, CCM3, by an additional 300,000 tonnes/year.

Posco Selects Employees to Work Abroad

15 January 2010 - Posco completes its selection of workers to be assigned to its overseas global units, including those in China, Japan, India, and Mexico, by the end of this year.

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