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Hyundai Steel Orders RH Plant for Secondary Metallurgy from SMS Mevac

13 February 2014 - South Korea's Hyundai Steel Co. has awarded SMS Mevac a contract for the supply of a fast vessel exchange RH (Ruhrstahl Heraeus) unit for its secondary-metallurgy facilities in Dangjin.

Siemens to Modernize Çemtaş Bar Rolling Mill in Turkey

13 February 2014 - Çelik Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Çemtaş), a Turkish steel producer, has awarded Siemens Metals Technologies an order to modernize its bar rolling mill in Bursa.

SMS Siemag Modernizes Coiler at Wuhan Iron & Steel

12 February 2014 - Wuhan Iron & Steel (WISCO) has placed an order with SMS Siemag to modernize a coiler in its No. 2 hot strip mill.

IREPAS Provides Short Range Outlook for Long Products Markets

11 February 2014 - In its short range outlook for February 2014, IREPAS says difficulties in emerging markets are adversely impacting long steel business.

voestalpine Reports Solid Financial Results in Challenging Economy

11 February 2014 - The voestalpine Group reported its results for the nine months ended 31 December 2013 and also provided an update on its DRI project in Texas.

JSW Plans Revamp of Dolvi Blast Furnace

11 February 2014 - Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. (NSENGI)’s Plant and Machinery Division and Marubeni Corp. were awarded a contract by JSW Steel Limited, for the revamp of a blast furnace at its Dolvi Works in India.

Air Liquide Signs Major Contract with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

10 February 2014 - Air Liquide is further strengthening its position in Germany by signing a major long-term supply contract with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG in the Rhine-Ruhr area, one of the largest and leading industrial basins in Europe.

Kennametal Receives Carnegie Science Honor for Digital Engineering Breakthrough

07 February 2014 - Kennametal Inc.’s Vice president of product engineering, Fred Patterson, representing a team of product and software engineers, will be honored with a 2014 Carnegie Science Award in the Advanced Manufacturing category at a ceremony on 9 May 2014.

FerrouSouth Solves Riddle of Wide, Heavy Gauge, High Strength CTL Flatness

07 February 2014 - Independent toll processor, FerrouSouth announced the completion and successful start-up a new 3-roll, coil set, crossbow, pre-flattener at the front end of The Eliminator — the company’s heavy gauge stretcher leveling line.

ArcelorMittal Modernizes Seamless Pipe Mill in Czech Republic

06 February 2014 - ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Ostrava (AMTPO) has completed a major investment project to modernize the manufacture of seamless small diameter pipes and increase its production capacity in the Czech Republic.

Siemens to Modernize Continuous Slab Caster for HKM

05 February 2014 - Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM) has awarded Siemens Metals Technologies an order to modernize slab caster No. 3 in its Duisburg-Huckingen plant in Germany.

SYSTEMS Spray-Cooled Provides Update on Nucor-Yamato Single Bucket Charge Work

04 February 2014 - SYSTEMS Spray-Cooled, Inc. provided an update on the work it is doing for Nucor-Yamato Steel's EAFs in Blytheville, Ark.

CMI Industry Commissions Arcelormittal Eisenhüttenstadt Skin Pass Mill

04 February 2014 - On 17 January 2013, CMI Industry finalized the commissioning of a new skin pass mill for ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt in Germany.

Pangang Orders Continuous Galvanizing Line from Siemens

03 February 2014 - The Pangang Group has place an order with Siemens Metals Technologies for a new continuous galvanizing line for its Chongqing, China, plant.

Tejas Tubular to Build New OCTG Facility in Nebraska

03 February 2014 - Tejas Tubular Products is set to build a new facility in Norfolk, Neb.

Praxair to Supply Industrial Gases to New Steel Mill in Brazil

31 January 2014 - Praxair, Inc. has signed a long-term contract to supply industrial gases to a new steel mill being built near the Port of Pecém, Ceara, Brazil.

Chinese SBQ Maker Places New Order with Friedrich Kocks

31 January 2014 - Friedrich Kocks is set to supply Beiman Special Steel with a new reducing and sizing block for its SBQ mill in China.

Report: U. S. Steel Seeks Permit to Build EAF at Fairfield Works

30 January 2014 - On a conference call Tuesday with analysts, United States Steel Corporation CEO Mario Longhi announced the company has filed a permit requesting to construct an electric arc furnace at its Fairfield Works in Alabama to replace its existing blast furnace, the Pittsburgh Business Times reports.

SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant Doubles Production Capacity with New SMS Siemag Slab Caster

30 January 2014 - In 2013, SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in Orissa, India, successfully cast the first slabs on the X-Cast® continuous caster supplied by SMS Siemag.

Siempelkamp Recovers Stored Energy with Pipe Forming Presses

29 January 2014 - At TUBE 2014 Siempelkamp introduced pipe forming presses with an innovative energy-efficient drive system.