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Audit Confirms NLMK Quality Management Systems Meet International Standards

09 July 2014 - An annual audit by the British Standards Institution has confirmed that NLMK Lipetsk production site management systems comply with international standards.

AHMSA Orders RH Plant from Siemens

08 July 2014 - Siemens Metals Technologies has won an order from Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) to supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant with mechanical vacuum pumps for its converter steelworks No. 2 in Monclova.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Modernizing Converter Plant, Waste Heat Boiler in Duisburg-Bruckhausen

08 July 2014 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is modernizing its No. 2 converter and associated waste-heat boiler system in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen, Germany, steelmaking plant, one of the biggest in Europe.

Siemens and Baosteel Cooperate in Slag Granulation Solutions

30 June 2014 - Siemens Metals Technologies and Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Baosteel group, will be cooperating in future in the granulation of slag produced in BOF converters and electric arc furnaces.

Friedrich Kocks Introduces Next Generation of Reducing & Sizing Blocks

25 June 2014 - The independent and family-owned company FRIEDRICH KOCKS GmbH & Co KG located in Hilden/Germany, is proud to announce the launching of the next generation of its well-established Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB).

SMS Siemag Is Expanding the Hot Strip Mill at Xichang Steel With a Slab Sizing Press

24 June 2014 - PIETC Panzhihua Co., Ltd. has awarded SMS Siemag, Germany, the contract for expanding the roughing mill in its hot strip mill in Xichang City, China, through the addition of a slab sizing press.

Ferriola Hints at Second DRI Plant for Louisiana

23 June 2014 - A report by American Metal Market, sponsor of the New York Steel Success Strategies XXIX, organized by World Steel Dynamics, claims that American steelmaker Nucor Corporation is seriously considering a new Direct-Reduced Iron (DRI) plant in Louisiana, USA, as well as a new heat-treat line at its Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plate mill.

AHMSA receives international quality certificate for CR mill No. 2

23 June 2014 - Mexican steelmaker Altos Hornos de México has received an international quality certificate for its cold rolling (CR) mill No. 2.

SSAB Considers Expanding Iowa Facility

20 June 2014 - The potential expansion would increase melting and casting capabilities by up to 1.2 million tons above current melting capacity. This represents roughly an additional 800,000 tons per year of finished product along with 400,000 tons of melting capacity to be transferred as slab to SSAB’s Mobile facility for rolling and finishing.

AMM Article: DRI Output to Soar by 2020: Midrex

20 June 2014 - Midrex Technologies Inc. expects direct-reduced iron (DRI) output in the United States to surpass 10 million tons annually "sometime near the end of the decade," director of marketing Henry P. Gaines said.

SMS Siemag’s Converter-Vessel Changing Concept Successfully Implemented at PT Krakatau-Posco Company

19 June 2014 - PT Krakatau-Posco Company (PTKP), Indonesia, and SMS Siemag (www.sms-siemag.com), Germany, have successfully put into operation the efficient converter-vessel changing concept involving a 300 ton change-vessel converter, a changing car as well as highly effective environmental technology for the converter shop.

PSI Strengthens Arcelormittal Ties, With Production Management Master Agreement

04 June 2014 - PSI Metals has signed a Master Agreement with ArcelorMittal, defining the governance of the close collaboration with respect to production management solutions.

Acroni Orders Two Furnaces and the World's First MultiFlex-Quench® for the Heat Treatment of Heavy Plate

04 June 2014 - The Slovenian steelmaker Acroni has placed an order with SMS Siemag (www.sms-siemag.com), Germany, to deliver a heat treatment line and revamp a stainless-steel annealing and picking line.

Damping System From Siemens Reduces Vibrations of AOD Converters

04 June 2014 - A new damping system from Siemens Metals Technologies was brought into operation in March at the Steel Making Plant North of the Chinese producer, Taiyuan Iron & Steel.

Synthesis Energy, ZCM-SES, and Midrex Sign Marketing Agreement for Clean Coal-based DRI Facilities

03 June 2014 - Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) (NASDAQ: SYMX) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, SES Technologies, LLC, Shanghai-based ZCM-SES Sino-U.S. Clean Energy Technologies Limited (ZCM-SES), and Midrex Technologies, Inc. (Midrex), a subsidiary of Kobe Steel Limited (ADR-OTC:KBSTY), have entered into an exclusive agreement for the joint marketing of coal gasification-based direct reduced iron (DRI) facilities in China.

Broner’s Integrated Scheduling Solution Goes Live at CSN in Brazil

03 June 2014 - Broner Metals Solutions, worldwide specialist provider of integrated MES (manufacturing execution systems), supply chain and scheduling solutions for metals, announced its newly integrated casting and hot mill scheduling solutions are now live in production at CSN’s Volta Redonda steelmaking site in Brazil, which will enable them to achieve significant inventory reductions.

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