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Tenaris Expands Payroll at Texas Facility

26 March 2021 - As Tenaris brings its seamless tube mill in Texas up to full capacity, it is scaling up operations at its Conroe, Texas, facility, adding crews to the heat treatment and finishing areas, the tubemaker has said. 

Steel Plant Issues Final Acceptance on Revamped Degasser

26 March 2021 - SMS group has received the final acceptance certificate related to work on an RH degasser at China Steel Corp.’s Kaohsiung works in Taiwan. 

Danieli Completes Slitter Improvements

26 March 2021 - Danieli Fröhling has wrapped up work on a slitting shear and exit guide at Becker Stahl Service GmbH in Germany, the equipment manufacturer reports. 

Nucor Chooses Kentucky as Home for New Tube Mill

25 March 2021 - Nucor Corp. will set up a planned US$164 million tube mill at its Gallatin sheet mill in Kentucky, the company announced Thursday. 

SSAB Selects Site for Planned DRI Plant

25 March 2021 - SSAB and its partners in its HYBRIT initiative have chosen a site in northern Sweden to build a fossil-free, direct reduced iron plant, the company has announced. 

New Air Separation Unit Planned for Ohio Mill 

23 March 2021 - Industrial and medical gas supplier Messer will build a new air separation unit to support an Ohio steelmaker and a growing merchant customer base in the Midwestern U.S. 

SSAB Cold Mill Set for Automation Upgrade

23 March 2021 - Primetals Technologies has been contracted to modernize the process automation system for a Finnish tandem cold mill, the equipment manufacturer has announced.

SMS group Receives Order for Wire Rod Mill Improvements

23 March 2021 - China’s Zenith Steel Group Co. Ltd. has contracted SMS group to upgrade the wire rod mill at its Changzhou works, a project that will take the mill’s rolling speed up to a blistering pace of 42 m/second.  

Danieli Lands Order for Wire Rod Mill

19 March 2021 - Hoa Phat Hai Duong Steel has awarded two contracts to Danieli for new rolling equipment at its Kinh Mon steel complex in Vietnam, Danieli has announced. 

Ukrainian Mill Signs Off on Newly Installed Downcoiler

18 March 2021 - Primetals Technologies recently received the final acceptance certificate for a new downcoiler installed at a Ukrainian mill, the equipment supplier has said. 

thyssenkrupp Orders Danieli Reheat Furnaces 

12 March 2021 - Danieli Centro Combustion has won an order for two slab reheat furnaces from thyssenkrupp, the OEM has announced. 

Nucor Board OKs US$164 Million Tube Mill Project 

10 March 2021 - Nucor Corp.’s board of directors has approved a plan to build a US$164 million tube mill somewhere in the Midwest, the company said on Tuesday. 

Danieli Reports Successful Installation of Bar Processing Unit 

10 March 2021 - Japanese long products maker Topy Industries Ltd. has put a new Danieli-built bar straightener into service at its Toyohashi plant. 

Ohio EAF Returns to Service   

08 March 2021 - After a half-year hiatus, JSW Steel is set to resume steelmaking at its Mingo Junction, Ohio, plant, reports commodities news and pricing service Argus. 

U. S. Steel Snaps Up IP Rights to High-Strength Grades

04 March 2021 - United States Steel Corporation has acquired the patents and trademarks related to proprietary sheet steels developed by Rhode Island-based The NanoSteel Co.

Sarralle Steel Melting Plant Electrifies AM/NS Calvert Facility

02 March 2021 - Steel mill solutions specialist Sarralle has been awarded a contract to build an electric arc furnace for the AM/NS Calvert re-rolling facility in Alabama. 

USW Ratifies Contract with NLMK Pennsylvania

02 March 2021 - Union workers at NLMK Pennsylvania have accepted a new labor contract, officially ending a strike that began last summer, reports The (Sharon, Pa.) Herald newspaper. 

Cleveland-Cliffs Sets Middletown Maintenance Outage

01 March 2021 - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is bringing up a blast furnace at its newly acquired Cleveland Works in Ohio as it idles another for a planned maintenance outage.

Primetals, Midrex Ink Deal for 2M-Metric-Ton HBI Plant 

01 March 2021 - Consortium partners Midrex Technologies and Primetals Technologies have won a contract to build what they say will be the world’s largest hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant in Russia’s Kursk region. 

Salzgitter Earns Low-Carbon Certification

01 March 2021 - Steelmaker Salzgitter said certain of its hot-rolled and galvanized strip grades have received low-CO2 certification under German testing, inspection and certification specialist TÜV SÜD’s VERIsteel standard.