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NLMK Annouces System-Wide Changes to Corporate Safety Practices

17 June 2013 - In an effort to streamline business processes, NLMK Group has announced changes to its occupational health and safety management practices, including setting up a single management system covering all the Group’s sites and divisions.

Tangshan Orders Cold Rolling Complex from Siemens

17 June 2013 - Siemens Metals Technologies has won an order worth more than € 100 million from the Chinese Tangshan Iron and Steel Group to supply a complete cold rolling complex.

Jersey Shore Steel Awarded 2013 Governor's Environmental Excellence Award

14 June 2013 - The Jersey Shore Steel Co. was recently named a winner of Pennsylvania’s 2013 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for “Making and Marketing the World’s Greenest Steel.” Its facility is located in Clinton County, Pa.

Mechel Reports Successful Sample Production of Rail Rolls at Chelyabinsk Rolling Mill

13 June 2013 - Mechel OAO reported that hot testing of rail rolls production at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant's universal rolling mill has begun.

ArcelorMittal Introduces Door Ring Solution to European Car Manufacturers

13 June 2013 - ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks recently welcomed four of the main European carmakers at ArcelorMittal’s Global R&D research center in Montataire, France, to discover the door ring, a very interesting solution that is already in use in the U.S.

SMS Siemag to Supply Cold Rolling and Strip Processing Lines for Record Strip Width to Benxi

12 June 2013 - Chinese Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. (Benxi) has placed an order with SMS Siemag for the supply of a pickling line/tandem cold mill and two continuous annealing lines.

Jim Lang of Konecranes Training Institute Named AIST Crane Innovator of the Year

11 June 2013 - The Association for Iron & Steel Technology has given Jim Lang of Konecranes Training Institute its 2013 Crane Innovator of the Year Award.

Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery and CONCAST India Form Partnership

11 June 2013 - Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. and CONCAST (INDIA) LIMITED have decided to enter into a strategic partnership together to capitalize on the individual strengths of both companies.

Kobe Steel Expanding Aluminum Business

11 June 2013 - Kobe Steel, Ltd. has entered into a technical cooperation agreement with Germany’s Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH for aluminum sheet used in automotive body panels.

Metinvest-SMC Expands Steel Processing Service

11 June 2013 - Metinvest-SMC, Metinvest Group’s retail sales network in Ukraine, has installed a cutting and slitting line for processing uncoated and galvanized steel coils.

Indev Wins Contract to Supply Coating Weight Gauge to ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor

11 June 2013 - Indev Gauging Systems has won a contract to provide a coating weight gauge for ArcelorMittal’s Indiana Harbor aluminizing line.

Desulfurization of Coke Plant at ArcelorMittal Ostrava Nearing Completion

10 June 2013 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava has launched the final stage of its coke oven gas desulphurization process optimization. By the end of the year the company plans to commission two new pieces of equipment at the coke plant that will reduce concentration of hydrogen sulfide in cleaned coke oven gas.

Tata Steel Completes Upgrade of UK Automotive Coating Line

10 June 2013 - Tata Steel has completed an upgrade of its corrosion-resistant coating line in South Wales to improve and expand the company’s range of high-value, high-formability automotive steels.

Large-Scale Environmental Project Successfully Implemented at Metalloinvest

07 June 2013 - Metalloinvest announced that a new gas purification unit has been launched at electric arc furnaces 3 and 4 at OEMK (part of Metalloinvest) in Russia.

Metinvest Switches to Railway Transportation in Mariupol

07 June 2013 - Metinvest Group reached an agreement with Ukrainian Railways State Enterprise that starting 1 June 2013 the company will begin transporting Azovstal’s and Ilyich I&SW (MMKI) products by rail.

Danieli Automation Provides First Q-ROBOT to Mexican Market

06 June 2013 - In December 2012, the Gerdau Corsa electric meltshop in Tlalnepantla, Mexico, ordered from Danieli Automation a Q-ROBOT Melt system for its EAF, to enhance safety during EAF operations.

ANDRITZ to Supply HDG and Annealing Equipment to Chinese Mill

06 June 2013 - ANDRITZ has received an order from Tangshan Iron and Steel Group in China to supply furnaces and process equipment for a hot-dip galvanizing plant with an annual capacity of 415,000 tons and a continuous annealing line with an annual capacity of 770,000 tons.

NLMK Joins National Environmental Campaign

05 June 2013 - NLMK joined the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s Zero Environmental Impact national environmental campaign.

Borusan Mannesmann Pipe Partners with Siemens for First U.S. Manufacturing Facility

04 June 2013 - Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish steel pipe manufacturer and leading player in the European market, has turned to Siemens for the expansion of its operations in the U.S.

Ruukki Provides Eco-Efficient Metal Components for Biofore Concept Car

04 June 2013 - Ruukki is providing eco-efficient metal components for the Biofore Concept Car being built by UPM and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.