Steel News

Durable, High-Temperature, Furnace Camera Monitors and Records Steel Making Processes

03 April 2015 - Lenox Instrument Company’s next generation, high-temperature, video camera system is specifically designed to be mounted directly through the wall of all types of industrial furnaces, heaters, or other combustion chambers. The durable, Furnace Camera HD provides steel mill engineers and operators clear, high-resolution images of burner flames, material alignment and movement inside the furnace, and other “high-heat” process conditions in iron and steel manufacturing.

Konecranes PLC’s President and CEO Pekka Lundmark to Leave the Company

02 April 2015 - President and CEO Pekka Lundmark has decided to leave Konecranes to pursue his career outside the company. The Board of Directors of Konecranes Plc will immediately start the search of a new President and CEO.

China’s Zenith Steel Revamps Complete Rod Outlet With Primetals Technologies

01 April 2015 - • Product line expanded into high carbon market. • First Optimesh system installed in China for increased cooling. • Upgrade increases rolling speed to 110 m/s for greater production.

Woodings Chosen to Fill Major Blast Furnace Order

01 April 2015 - Woodings Industrial Corp., a worldwide leader in the manufacture of metals industry equipment, has been selected to design, manufacture and install a substantial amount of equipment that will be a part of a leading steel producer’s rebuild of its “A” blast furnace at its southern Illinois facility.

Primetals Technologies to Modernize Rolling Mill Drives for AMAG Rolling in Austria

31 March 2015 - Primetals Technologies has won an order from AMAG rolling GmbH, located in Ranshofen, Austria, to modernize the entire drive technology on its four-high hot rolling stand.

Tosyali Toyo Orders High-Efficiency Tinning Line With Soluble Anodes From SMS Siemag

30 March 2015 - Tosyali Toyo Çelik A.Ş. (Tosyali Toyo Steel Co. Inc.), the Turkish-Japanese joint venture between Tosyali Holding and Toyo Kohan, has awarded SMS Siemag (www.sms-siemag.com) the contract for the supply of an electrolytic tinning line.

Ergonomic Crane Cabs for 24/7 Operation at Steel Facility

30 March 2015 - Fort Worth, Texas-based crane component specialist Flow in Motion LLC has supplied a second ladle crane cab to Nucor’s Hertford County facility in North Carolina, where the steel giant produces carbon steel plate.

Conductix-Wampfler’s New Spring Reel Motor Offers Three Times the Spring Life

30 March 2015 - Engineers at Conductix-Wampfler have developed a radically new spring motor concept: the Linear Spring.

SMS Mevac Commissions VOD Facility at Fujian Fuxin Special Steel

27 March 2015 - After the successful start-up of the stainless steel melt shop of Fujian Fuxin Special Steel (part of Formosa Plastics Corporation) in Zhangzhou, China, by the SMS group in 2014, last month the Duplex VOD X-eed unit supplied by SMS Mevac, Germany, was put into operation. This plant represents the extension phase of the melt shop.

EXO Technologies and Columbia Machine Works Form Strategic Alliance

27 March 2015 - EXO Technologies and Columbia Machine announce the formation of a strategic alliance for sales and marketing of their complementary product lines.

Finalists Named in 6th Annual AMM Awards for Steel Excellence

26 March 2015 - Following a highly competitive nomination process, 45 firms have been named finalists for the sixth annual AMM Awards for Steel Excellence, which honor world-class companies in, and in support of, the global steel industry.

Leader Named for Worldwide Activities of Terex Material Handling

26 March 2015 - With effect from 16 March 2015, Susanna Schneeberger leads the Terex Material Handling business group.

New Fine Dust Extraction Technology from SMS Group to Be Employed by Chinese Steelmaker

25 March 2015 - Shougang Qian'An Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. has placed an order with the SMS group to retrofit its steelworks with three hydro-hybrid filter systems.

Two Harsco Managers Honored with the Manufacturing Institute's Women in Manufacturing's STEP Awards

24 March 2015 - Harsco Corporation announced that two of its managers are among the honorees of The Manufacturing Institute's Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Awards.

Timken Awards Scholarships Valued at $540,000 to 17 Children of Employees Around the World

24 March 2015 - The Timken Co. awarded scholarships to 17 sons and daughters of Timken associates in 11 locations around the world.

Munroe Responds to Disaster, Turns Job in 10 Days

23 March 2015 - On 27 March 2014, a major U.S. steel producer in the Great Lakes region experienced a catastrophic failure of a giant collector duct pipe that collapsed and crashed through the roof of the company’s BOP shop.

Large Woodings Goggle Valve Bound for Detroit Steelmaker

23 March 2015 - A large steelmaking facility is going big, having placed an order for the design and production of a very large hydraulic goggle valve from Woodings Industrial.

SMS Siemag Supplying Continuous Pickling Line to Turkey’s Tezcan

23 March 2015 - Turkish steel service center Tezcan has placed an order with SMS Siemag for the supply of a continuous pickling line.

ThyssenKrupp Implements IDEAL Laser Welder into Existing HDG Line

20 March 2015 - The implementation of a laser welding machine into an existing hot dip galvanizing line (HDGL) a ThyssenKrupp in Germany (TKSE) set an example for IDEAL’s unique solutions.

EVRAZ ZSMK Signs Off on PCI Plant from Paul Wurth

19 March 2015 - EVRAZ ZSMK of Novokuznetsk, Russia has issued in favor of Paul Wurth a final acceptance certificate for the pulverized coal injection plant designed and delivered by the Luxembourg-based plant builder.