Steel News

Three Atlas Tube Facilities Achieve STINA Certified Producer Status

12 October 2011 - Atlas Tube's manufacturing facilities in Chicago, Ill.; Harrow, Ont.; and Plymouth, Mich. are among the first steel tubular producers in North America to earn the right to display the Steel Tube Institute of North America's Certified Producer Mark on its products.

Tata Steel and Dutch Government Sign Green Deal

06 October 2011 - Tata Steel signed a new agreement with the Government in the Netherlands committing Tata Steel’s IJmuiden plant to further improvements in its sustainability performance. The three Green Deal projects will be carried out in IJmuiden’s blast furnaces, steel meltshop, and wide hot strip mill.

ArcelorMittal Offers Tour of Secondary Dedusting Project in Argentina

03 October 2011 - Members of the Environment Office of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, recently visited ArcelorMittal’s Villa Constitución plant to learn more about its environmental project aimed at improving the efficiency of the canopy hoods and filters in the EAFs.

JFE Steel to Supply ERW Pipe for North Sea and Norwegian Sea Oil Projects

29 September 2011 - JFE Steel has received an from Statoil to supply 3500 tonnes of MightySeam® electric-resistance-welded steel pipe for oil projects in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea. Both projects will use the reel-based method to lay the line pipes.

Steel Tube Institute Recognizes First Companies to Achieve Certified Producer Status

28 September 2011 - Six steel tubular product manufacturers have passed the Steel Tube Institute of North America audit process and earned the right to display the STINA Certified Producer mark on their products.

OSHA Cites ABC Coke Following Worker Fatality

27 September 2011 - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited ABC Coke for 27 safety and health violations following the death of a worker in March. Proposed penalties total $124,000.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih Restarts Overhauled Sinter Machine

27 September 2011 - PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih recently put into operation the overhauled sinter machine #5 in its steel production sinter shop.

Outokumpu Signs Final Agreement with Tubinoxia on Tubular JV

26 September 2011 - Outokumpu and Tubinoxia, an Italian company controlled by Andrea Gatti, have signed the agreement on the joint venture (JV) for Outokumpu's tubular unit (OSTP). Tubinoxia will become a minority owner of OSTP with an option to become a majority owner in three years.

ArcelorMittal Iasi Commissions New Cold Mill

22 September 2011 - The Tubular Products Division of ArcelorMittal has commissioned a new 120,000 tonne/year cold formed mill in their Iasi, Romania facility.

EPA Recognizes Nucor Jewett for Environmental Stewardship

21 September 2011 - The EPA recognizes Nucor Steel’s Jewett, Texas, facility for its achievements in reducing mercury and lead as part of its participation in the EPA’s National Partnership for Environmental Priorities.

Construction Milestones Met at ArcelorMittal Jubail

19 September 2011 - ArcelorMittal has achieved some important milestones in the construction of its seamless tubular products mill located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jubail, including more than six million hours worked on site without any lost time injuries as of August 2011.

USITC to Uphold Antidumping Orders on Seamless Pipe from Japan, Romania

12 September 2011 - Existing antidumping duty orders on imports of carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from Japan and Romania following the USITC’s determination that revoking the existing antidumping duties on these products would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.

NLMK Commences Hot Tests at New Cogeneration Plant

08 September 2011 - NLMK’s new 150-MW Recovery Cogeneration Plant has started receiving and processing BF gas from Blast Furnace No. 7 currently being hot tested. With the new plant, Novolipetsk’s (NLMK’s Lipetsk site) generation capacity will increase by 45% to 482 MW.

NLMK to Increase Power Generation Using By-Product Gases

01 September 2011 - NLMK announced plans to increase its use of by-product fuel gases from metallurgical processes at the main Novolipetsk site in Lipetsk by the end of the year.

Tata Steel to Build Automotive Tubes Facility at Zwijndrecht

24 August 2011 - Tata Steel plans to build a new steel tubes manufacturing and processing facility at its Zwijndrecht plant in the Netherlands to serve the automotive sector. It is expected to be in operation by July 2012.

Metinvest’s Krasnodon Coal Defines Safety Enforcement Measures

23 August 2011 - The Administration of Krasnodon Coal has identified a set of safety enforcement measures above the safety requirements provided for in the current legislation, including additional air cooling, maximum automation of underground location control systems, and additional training.