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AK Steel Introduces New Stainless Steel Product

19 September 2014 - AK Steel has introduced CHROMESHIELD™ 22, a new nickel-free stainless steel product with enhanced benefits and stable pricing for customers.

ArcelorMittal Unveils Range of New AHSS for Safer, Lighter Cars

03 September 2014 - ArcelorMittal has unveiled a new range of steels for the automotive industry that offers significant weight savings while improving safety.

Process Sensors Introduces Self-Contained Pyrometers for R&D and Industrial Applications

02 September 2014 - Process Sensors Corporation has introduced its newest self-contained pyrometer models, the stand-alone PSC-SR56N Series.

AIST Announces T.C. Graham Prize Contest

25 August 2014 - The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) is proud to announce the T.C. Graham Prize. This is a unique contest to recognize innovative applications for steel that may lead to the development of new markets. The winning entry will win US$20,000.

QuesTek's High Performance Ferrium® M54® Steel Qualified for Navy T-45 Aircraft Hook Shank Production

20 August 2014 - QuesTek’s Ferrium M54 steel has been qualified to be used in a demanding Navy aerospace application (T-45 hook shanks), in part because it showed more than twice the component life as the existing steel.

SKF Establishing US$30 Million R&D Center in Chicago

12 August 2014 - SKF announced plans to build a new 12,100 m2 (130,000 sq. ft.) facility in the greater Chicago area.

Tata Steel Launches New Automotive Steel Grade Combining Crash Protection with 15% Weight Reduction

06 August 2014 - Tata Steel has developed an innovative new product for automotive manufacturers in response to market requirements for stronger and lighter steels.

OMK Opens Second Engineering and Technology Center

01 August 2014 - Russia’s United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has opened its own engineering and technology center (ETC) in Ufa.

Ternium First in Mexico to Develop Steel with Improved Stress Resistance for Rims

18 July 2014 - Ternium Mexico is currently developing FB-540 steel grade, with a ferrite-bainite structure, used to manufacture rims for the automotive industry, thus, becoming the first company to produce this grade of steel in Mexico.

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal’s Ultrahigh-Tensile Steel Receives Nissan Global Supplier Award

17 July 2014 - Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) received Nissan’s Global Supplier Award for Innovation for the development of high-formability ultrahigh-tensile steel sheet of the 1.2GPa class.

Purdue Today: Federal Grant to Support Purdue Calumet Center's Steel Consortium

24 June 2014 - Purdue Calumet's Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) last week received a $480,000 federal grant to launch a consortium that will benefit the steel industry.

No One Should Doubt Steel Remains Auto Material of Choice, Mittal Says

18 June 2014 - Steel has all the capability to remain the preferred material for the automotive industry, ArcelorMittal chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal said yesterday.

FEI and University of Manchester Announce Collaboration Agreement for Metals Research

05 June 2014 - FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) and The University of Manchester announce their collaboration on the Metals Lab at The University of Manchester's Electron Microscopy Centre in the School of Materials.

ArcelorMittal's Largest R&D Center Unveils New Steels For Lighter Cars

02 June 2014 - ArcelorMittal has launched the first product in a new series of advanced high strength steels (AHSS), with 10 automotive steel projects set for launch in 2014.

worldsteel’s New AHSS Guidelines Support Use of the Latest, Lightest Steel Technologies

21 May 2014 - At the Great Designs in Steel automotive conference, WorldAutoSteel announced the launch of the Advanced High-Strength Steels Application Guidelines (AHSS Guidelines) Version 5.0, the largest and most comprehensive update since its first publication in 2004.

SMDI Honors GM for Innovative Use of AHSS at Great Designs in Steel Seminar

20 May 2014 - For its use of advanced high-strength steel (AHSS), the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), awarded General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 design team with the 2014 Automotive Excellence Award.

Quaker Chemical's Technical Center Supports Advances in Metalworking Technology

02 May 2014 - Quaker Chemical Corp., a global leader in process fluids, has a network of in-house CNC machining centers in technical hubs in U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.

ThyssenKrupp's New Zinc-Magnesium Coatings Offer Protection for Entire Car Body

30 April 2014 - With ZM EcoProtect and ZM PrimeProtect, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is the first steel producer in the world to offer two highly effective zinc-magnesium-based corrosion protection solutions that meet the high surface requirements for exposed body panels.

Abakan Subsidiary Receives EPA Funding to Develop CermaClad as Alternative to Galvanizing

23 April 2014 - Abakan Inc., an emerging leader in the advanced coatings and metal formulations markets, announced that its majority owned subsidiary, MesoCoat Inc., received a Phase One SBIR Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a six month project to develop CermaClad™, Abakan's environmentally friendly high-speed large-area metal cladding technology, as a replacement alternative for the highly toxic galvanizing process currently in use.