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Wuppermann Orders Economical Pickling and HDG Line from SMS Siemag

10 July 2014 - At the end of June, Wuppermann Group, Germany, a family business with 140 years of experience in steel processing, awarded SMS Siemag the contract to deliver a hot-wide-strip pickling and hot-dip galvanizing line for its new plant in the Hungarian town of Győr-Gönyű.

SMS Siemag Supplying Hot-Dip Galvanizing Line to Bengang

10 July 2014 - Chinese Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. (Bengang) awarded SMS Siemag the order for the supply of a continuous hot-dip galvanizing line.

Lincoln Electric Licenses NanoSteel's Weld Overlay and Thermal Spray Technologies

09 July 2014 - Lincoln Electric and The NanoSteel® Co. announced that Lincoln Electric has been granted an exclusive worldwide license to NanoSteel's proprietary steel coatings technology for weld overlay and thermal spray applications.

JP Steel Plantech to Supply China Steel with Cold Leveler and Pre-Leveler

09 July 2014 - JP Steel Plantech Co. (SPCO) has received orders from China Steel Corp. Group (CSC) in Taiwan for one cold leveler and one pre-leveler to carry out CSC’s plate mill improvement plans to produce direct quenching plates.

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.

Grupo Sarralle Will Install Complete Steel Mill for Siderùrgica Latino-Americana (Silat) in Brazil

30 June 2014 - Once in operation, the Greenfield project will allow for the production of 700,000 tpy of finished product (namely rebar, wire rod and mesh).

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.

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.

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.

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