Steel News

SSAB Auto Steel Receives OK from Indian Government

10 September 2019 - SSAB’s line of hot- and cold-rolled Docol® automotive steel has received its Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification, the company reports.

Zekelman Industries Chooses Arkansas for US$150M Mill

31 July 2019 - Zekelman Industries will build its new electric-weld tube mill in Blytheville, Ark., USA, next to its existing Atlas Tube facility, the company has announced.

SSAB Eyes Lifting Machine Market for New High-Strength Grade

11 April 2019 - SSAB has introduced a new grade of hot-rolled strip grade designed for applications that require welded joints, particularly lifting equipment.

Endless Mill Sets New Hot Rolling Record

15 January 2019 - A Chinese endless cast-roll mill has set a new world record for the thinnest hot-rolled strip made on such equipment, according the mill’s builder, Primetals Technologies.

Japanese Mill Launches Production of Spooled Rebar

06 November 2018 - Japan’s Topy Industries Ltd. has started up its new spooled rebar line and a new finishing block at its Toyohashi bar plant, reports the equipment supplier on the project.

SSAB Adds to Roster of Steel Products

25 October 2018 - Specialty steel producer SSAB has added a new type of steel to its product mix, one that it says is geared for product manufacturers that have stamping, punching, slitting and complicate die forming operations in its production lines.

Third-Gen Automotive Steels Have Arrived

02 August 2018 - Third-generation steels that are at once strong and formable are now being sold into the automotive market and can readily substitute components made from earlier advanced steels with lower tensile strengths, reports Repairer Driven News.

CMC Winds Up First Spool of Rebar

07 June 2018 - Commercial Metals Company’s new micro-mill in Oklahoma has begun producing spooled rebar, according to the plant’s technology supplier, Danieli.

AK Steel Rolls Out New Electrical Steel

31 May 2018 - AK Steel Corp. is bringing to market a new family of high-permeability grain oriented electrical steels (GOES) designed for high- and ultrahigh-voltage transformers.

SSAB Brings Third-Generation Automotive Steel to Market

08 May 2018 - Swedish steelmaker SSAB is rolling out a family of coated, third-generation advanced high-strength steels and has product ready for customer trials, the company announced Tuesday.

German Steelworks Turns on New Cooling System

06 March 2018 - SMS group has successfully retrofitted a German slab caster with a new secondary cooling system, the equipment supplier reported Tuesday.

Gerdau Upsizes Blooms at Michigan Mill

29 January 2018 - In an effort to improve steel cleanliness and better serve customers, Gerdau’s special bar quality mill in Monroe, Mich., USA, plans to begin producing 240-mm square blooms this fall.

SSAB Introduces Water-Quenchable Steel Grade

22 November 2017 - Sweden’s SSAB has begun selling a new type of steel than can be quenched in water, but doesn’t need to be immediately tempered, it has announced.

The Gears Turn, and TimkenSteel Unveils a New Line of Steel

24 October 2017 - TimkenSteel has introduced a new line of special bar quality steels that combine strength and toughness.

Ovako Launches New Line of Steels

18 September 2017 - Swedish special bar quality maker Ovako has introduced a new family of steels that it says combines the characteristics of tool steel, maraging steel and stainless steel with the production economy of special bar quality steel.

Research Team Says It Has Developed a Formable 2 GPa Steel

25 August 2017 - A University of Hong Kong professor and a team of mechanical engineers say they have created a new ultra-high-strength steel that can be made through conventional process routes.

German Steelmaker Lays Claim to World's Thickest Slab

27 July 2017 - Germany’s Dillinger Hütte said it set a new world record on Tuesday, casting a slab with a thickness of 600 mm, or more than 23.5 inches.

Nucor CEO: It's Time to Support the American Steel Industry

25 July 2017 - As Nucor Corp. chairman and chief executive John Ferriola sees it, the United States is in a trade war. And it’s losing.

Steel Dynamics Takes One to the Snout

21 July 2017 - A bad line component forced Steel Dynamics Inc.’s (SDI) new Galvalume and paint lines to go down in the second quarter, contributing to an estimated US$30 million impact on earnings, SDI chief executive Mark Millett said on Thursday.

This Is Heavy News: Mechel Casts a 50-Metric-Ton Ingot

20 July 2017 - Mechel PAO’s Chelyabinsk works in Russia has cast its first 50-metric-ton ingot, officially marking its entry into the oversized special steel market.