Steel News

SMS Concast to Deliver Three-Strand Billet Casting Plant to Turkey

12 September 2013 - Asil Celik of Orhangazi, Turkey, has commissioned SMS Concast of Switzerland with the supply of a new three-strand billet caster.

JFE Steel's Earthquake-Resistant Linepipe Wins 2013 R&D 100 Award

11 September 2013 - JFE Steel Corporation announced that its earthquake-resistant linepipe HIPER® won the 2013 R&D 100 Award for Mechanical Systems, presented by the U.S. science and technology publication R&D Magazine.

Praxair India Signs Two Contracts with JSW Steel

11 September 2013 - Praxair India Private Limited, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., announced it has signed two long-term contracts with JSW Steel, to operate small on-site nitrogen plants in support of the company’s expansion efforts in the cities of Kalameshwar and Tarapur, located in the state of Maharashtra. The nitrogen will be used in the manufacturing processes for both cold rolled and galvanized steel at these locations.

Amsteel Mills Brings Modernized Wire Rod Mill from SMS Meer On Stream

11 September 2013 - SMS Meer has successfully upgraded the core components of a wire rod mill at Amsteel Mills in Banting, Malaysia. The modernization will enable the company to boost its productivity and to roll surface-quenched and tempered rebars at a speed of up to 105 meters per second.

CMI Industry Replaces Two Sinter Hoods for ArcelorMittal Asturias

10 September 2013 - CMI Industry is currently performing the replacement of the two sinter hoods at the ArcelorMittal Asturias steelmaking site in Gijon, Spain.

EUROFER: Decision on EU ETS Increases Unilateral Cost Burden for EU Industry

10 September 2013 - EUROFER has strong concerns about the European Commission’s decision on Member States' national implementation measures (NIMs) for the third EU ETS trading period.

New Ruukki Ramor 550 Steel Enables Increasingly Lighter Structures

10 September 2013 - Ruukki is expanding its range of Ramor protection steels with a new Ramor 550 grade designed for ballistic protection.

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Wins Global Orders for Metal Treatment Vacuum Systems

09 September 2013 - Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum recently won several orders globally for vacuum systems out of the metal treatment field, optimized for customer specific needs. Advantage of these vacuum solutions is the high flexibility due to the use of standard vacuum pumps in a versatile skid.

SunCoke Energy Extends Cokemaking Agreement with ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor

09 September 2013 - SunCoke Energy, Inc. and ArcelorMittal have agreed to a 10-year extension of their existing contract, under which SunCoke provides 1.22 million tons of metallurgical coke annually to ArcelorMittal from its Indiana Harbor cokemaking operation located in East Chicago, Ind.

OMK's Trubodetal Plant Patents Unique Stamping Technology

06 September 2013 - Trubodetal JSC (Chelyabinsk, part of United Metallurgical Company, CJSC OMK) has been issued a patent for a unique technology for stamping T-bends to be used under high pressure.

Tata Steel's Lightweight Armor Steel Can Take a Punch

06 September 2013 - Tata Steel has received orders for more than 200 samples of its perforated armor steel, which has been exported to a number of countries worldwide, including Germany, France, the U.S. and India.

Nippon Steel and Baosteel Plan Capacity Expansion at Automotive Sheet JV in China

05 September 2013 - Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) and Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (Baosteel) are planning to construct a fourth hot-dip galvanizing line at their Baosteel-NSC Automotive Steel Sheets Co. (BNA) joint venture in China. Start of operations is planned for 2015.

Plain Dealer: ArcelorMittal Cleveland to Invest $55 Million in Blast Furnace

05 September 2013 - The ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland will invest US$55 million in one of its two blast furnaces, according to Mark Granakis, president of Local 979 of the United Steelworkers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.

Arch Coal's Mine Rescue Teams Capture Top Spots in Kentucky Safety Competition

05 September 2013 - Arch Coal, Inc. announced that mine rescue teams from two subsidiaries captured top honors at the 2013 Harlan County Safety Days recently held on the campus of the Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College in Cumberland, Ky. 

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to Modernize Converter Plant and Waste-Heat Boiler at Duisburg-Bruckhausen

04 September 2013 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is investing € 20 million in one of its core facilities in Duisburg. From 3 August to 17 September 2013 the company will be replacing the first of two converters and parts of the associated waste-heat boiler system at the Bruckhausen oxygen steelmaking plant (Ox 1).

SMS Siemag Receives Order for Integrated Steelworks for Greenfield Project in Venezuela

04 September 2013 - SMS Siemag has been awarded a major order by Siderúrgica Nacional in Venezuela for the supply of a new integrated plant complex for the production and processing of steel.

St. Louis Cold Drawn Cited By OSHA After Worker Electrocuted

04 September 2013 - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited St. Louis Cold Drawn for 26 safety violations after a worker was electrocuted 15 May 2013 when he reached into an energized electrical panel box to retrieve work gloves stored in the box at the company's St. Louis steel bar manufacturing facility.

Tenova LOI Thermprocess to Supply Galvanizing Equipment for Poland

04 September 2013 - LOI Thermprocess — a company of the Tenova Group — has received through its Polish subsidiary a contract from the Polish/German company Metalcynk to supply a variety of equipment for a new galvanizing plant.

PTC Seamless Tube Corp. to Establish Manufacturing Operations in Kentucky

03 September 2013 - Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced PTC Seamless Tube Corp., a subsidiary of PTC Group Holdings Corp., plans to create up to 283 jobs in Hopkinsville, Ky., where the company expects to invest more than US$102 million to establish a manufacturing operation.

Outokumpu Stainless Steel Efficiently Removes SO2 Emissions at Power Plant

03 September 2013 - Outokumpu has delivered austenitic 4565 stainless steel grade and quarto plates to a power plant in Boxberg, Saxony, Germany. The plant is being constructed by Babcock Noell GmbH and its subcontractor Heinz Gothe GmbH & Co. KG.