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EUROFER: European Steel Market Seeing Some Tailwinds At Last

30 October 2013 - EUROFER’s Q4-2013 Economic & Steel Market Outlook provides further evidence of the economic recovery in the EU gaining traction in the months ahead.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Puts Blast Furnace 9 in Duisburg Back into Operation

29 October 2013 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe’s blast furnace 9 in Duisburg-Hamborn has been fired up again and has started a new campaign.

Tata Steel Europe's Long Products Business to Restructure

29 October 2013 - Tata Steel's Long Products business announced restructuring proposals to help strengthen its competitiveness.

Metinvest to Upgrade Azovstal's Blast Furnace No. 4

29 October 2013 - Metinvest Group will invest over US$ 92 million to upgrade Azovstal’s blast furnace No. 4. The work will increase the furnace’s annual output by 25% to 1.1 million tons of iron.

voestalpine Commences Operations at Visionary Cold Rolling Center in Kematen

28 October 2013 - The voestalpine Group is opening one of the world’s most modern cold rolling centers for the production of high quality strip steel in Kematen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria.

Converter Successfully Revamped by SMS Siemag at ArcelorMittal Gent

28 October 2013 - ArcelorMittal Gent in Belgium successfully commissioned the converter modernized by SMS Siemag according to schedule.

SSAB Reports on Third Quarter 2013 Results

28 October 2013 - SSAB said global demand for steel during the third quarter was on the same level as during the second quarter, and SSAB's shipments were unchanged compared with the previous quarter.

NLMK's Stoilensky Improves System of Handling and Storing Iron Ore Waste

28 October 2013 - Stoilensky, NLMK Group’s iron ore producer, is going ahead with production testing the first stage of its thickening unit at the tailings department as part of the plant’s program aimed at enhancing the efficiency of its existing infrastructure.

Metalloinvest Confirms High Quality of Its Steel Products

28 October 2013 - Ural Steel (part of Metalloinvest) has successfully passed the audit of its steel products for compliance with European standards.

Yenakiieve Steel Installs New Blast Air Turbine-Compressor Unit

25 October 2013 - Metinvest Group’s Yenakiieve Steel installed a new turbine and compressor unit to provide additional blast air to the plant’s blast furnaces last week.

Interpipe Announces Start of Steel Billet Sales

25 October 2013 - Ukraine’s Interpipe Co. announced the launch of sales of steel billets which are produced by Interpipe Steel’s electric steel-melting complex.

Outotec Opens Unique Dewatering Technology Center in Finland

25 October 2013 - Outotec is establishing a Dewatering Technology Center in Lappeenranta, Finland.

Severstal Reports Q3 and 9M 2013 Operational Results

25 October 2013 - OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announced its operational results for the third quarter of 2013 and first nine months of 2013.

Siemens Modernizes Cooling Section of Hot Rolling Mill No. 2 at Wisco

24 October 2013 - Siemens Metals Technologies has won an order to modernize the cooling section in the hot rolling mill No. 2 of Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Wisco) in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Tata Steel Launches Long-Length Wear-Resistant Rail for the World Market

24 October 2013 - Tata Steel has launched a new state-of-the-art facility which will produce train track capable of lasting up to three times longer than standard rail.

Metalloinvest Grows Pig Iron Production Capacities

24 October 2013 - Metalloinvest is implementing a program for growing merchant pig iron production at Ural Steel, which includes modernization of the pig iron smelting facilities at the blast furnace plant.

Two Metinvest Enterprises Receive Environmental Awards

24 October 2013 - Metinvest Group's Azovstal and Zaporizhstal won the 12th Ukrainian "Environmental Quality and Safety" competition.

EVRAZ Reports Q3 Production and Operational Results

24 October 2013 - EVRAZ plc released its operational results for the third quarter of 2013.

voestalpine Builds Europe's Most Modern Wire Rolling Mill in Austria

23 October 2013 - By 2016, voestalpine Austria Draht will have completed construction of Europe’s most modern wire rolling mill at its Leoben-Donawitz site in Austria.

Tata Steel to Build New Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace in UK

23 October 2013 - Tata Steel announced it will build a vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnace at its Stocksbridge site in South Yorkshire, UK, to enable it to tap into new market opportunities and develop innovative new products for the aerospace and oil & gas industries.

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