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Big River Decides to Expand Arkansas Mill, Considers Additional Automotive Sheet Investment

02 July 2018 - Big River Steel has decided to double down on its investment in Arkansas and expand its existing facility to 3.3 million tons annually. Meanwhile, it separately is considering whether to build an advanced coating line, the company has announced.

Tata, thyssenkrupp Shake Hands on European Joint Venture

02 July 2018 - After more than two years of negotiations, India’s Tata Steel and Germany’s thyssenkrupp have agreed to combine their European steel business through a 50-50 joint venture.

Steel Dynamics Closes on Acquisition of Sheet Processing Facility

02 July 2018 - Steel Dynamics Inc. has finalized its acquisition of the former Heartland Steel sheet processing plant from Companhia Siderurgica Nacional.

Steel Dynamics Plans New Galvanizing Line for Mississippi Sheet Mill

28 June 2018 - Steel Dynamics Inc. plans to add a third galvanizing line to its Columbus, Miss., USA, sheet plant and make US$90 million to US$100 million in other improvements there.

Cleveland-Cliffs Expects HBI Plant to be Producing by Summer of 2020

27 June 2018 - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is ahead of schedule on its hot-briquetted iron plant and expects to put it into service by July 2020, Cliffs chairman and chief executive officer Lourenco Goncalves said Wednesday.

JSW Steel Looks to Grow Domestically and Internationally

26 June 2018 - India’s JSW Steel is allocating US$1 billion toward capital improvements at its plants in Texas and Ohio as it looks to increase its companywide capacity, company officials said Tuesday.

GFG Alliance Restarts a South Carolina Mill, and Eyes Other U.S. Acquisitions

26 June 2018 - The Gupta family’s GFG Alliance is targeting 5 million tons of American EAF capacity in the next two to three years and is looking to acquire supporting scrap operations, executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta said Tuesday.

'Profiteering' Not to Blame for Steel Price Increases

26 June 2018 - Strength in demand, and not speculative activity induced by the Section 232 tariffs, is driving the run up in steel prices, Steel Dynamics Inc. chief executive Mark Millett said Tuesday.

Ferriola: The World Wouldn't Act on Overcapacity, So the U.S. Did

26 June 2018 - Nucor Corp. chief executive officer John Ferriola vigorously defended the Section 232 steel tariffs on Tuesday, saying that the U.S. imposed the trade measure only in the absence of multinational action on excess capacity.

AI Emerging as a New Steelmaking Benchmark, Silicon Valley Executive Says

25 June 2018 - Mills that hesitate on deploying machine learning technologies will do so at their own peril, according to Noodle.ai chief executive officer Stephen Pratt.

Hydrogen Steelmaking Is Feasible...If the Industry Comes Up With a Feasible Way to Produce Hydrogen

25 June 2018 - As the steel industry looks to lower its carbon footprint, investments in hydrogen-based steelmaking research and development are surfacing. However, the process itself isn’t necessarily the biggest hurdle to overcome.

Revised CAFE Standards Probably Won't Hurt Demand for Auto Steel

25 June 2018 - The Trump administration’s proposal to roll back the 2025 vehicle fuel economy standards likely won’t have a significant impact on the market for lightweight automotive steels, according to a Nucor Corp. official.

ArcelorMittal Launches Initiative Aimed at Improving Steel Building Design

21 June 2018 - The world’s largest steelmaker has created a program that aims to change the way builders think about steel in building construction.

Idled U. S. Steel Blast Furnace Back in Production

21 June 2018 - United States Steel Corporation has restarted one of two idled blast furnaces at its Granite City Works in Illinois and is again producing hot metal.

Nissan to Expand Use of Advanced High-Strength Steel

21 June 2018 - Nissan Motors Co. Ltd. said it plans to use more advanced high-strength steel in its vehicles and aims to have the material account for 25% of components by weight.

SMS group Secures Orders for Finishing Blocks

21 June 2018 - SMS group has landed two separate orders for its MEERdrive PLUS finishing blocks from Italian wire rod producers Arlenico SpA and Feralpi Siderurgica SpA.

Tata Steel Modernizes Continuous Annealing Line

21 June 2018 - The No. 12 continuous annealing line at Tata Steel Packaging in IJmuiden, Netherlands, has been restarted following upgrades to its automation system and electrics, according to the equipment supplier on the project.

'We're Going to Make Sure that American Steel Is There ... for Generations to Come,' Says U.S. VP Pence

20 June 2018 - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Nucor Corp.’s Auburn bar mill in New York on Tuesday and declared that “steel is back.”

SSAB Sets Price Tag on Mill Fire at More Than US$10 Million

20 June 2018 - A transformer fire that damaged SSAB’s Hämeenlinna mill in Finland is expected to cost the company somewhere between SEK100 and SEK120 million (between US$11.2 million and US$13.5 million) in repairs and lost deliveries, the steelmaker said.

U.S. Mills Expand Circumvention Claims Against Processed Sheet From Vietnam

14 June 2018 - U.S. producers are accusing their South Korean counterparts of circumventing anti-dumping duties by shipping coils to Vietnam for processing into cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant sheet, reports Metal Bulletin.

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