Steel News

ArcelorMittal Steel Adding Sparkle to the Paris Skyline

16 April 2013 - ArcelorMittal is supplying 4,200 tonnes of steel for the D2 Tower, the first steel-framed tower in Paris’ business district of La Défense, and one of the first steel-framed skyscrapers in France.

Tata Steel Conferred Business Leadership Award

16 April 2013 - Tata Steel was conferred the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Award 2013 in the Metals category. The awards recognizes organizational excellence and is a reward for being a leading Indian business.

ArcelorMittal Ostrava Employees Reach Collective Bargaining Agreement

16 April 2013 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava in the Czech Republic has reached a final collective bargaining agreement with its employees for 2013–2015.

WorldAutoSteel: Steel Eliminates Weight Gap with Aluminum for Car Bodies

16 April 2013 - The latest in a continuing series of research studies strongly suggest that steel auto body structures in the near future can be as lightweight as today’s aluminum bodies, while meeting all crash performance standards and at comparable cost of current steel structures, WorldAutoSteel reports

LanzaTech Announces Energy Industry Veteran to Lead China Operations

15 April 2013 - LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, announced the appointment of Ken C. Lai as vice president of its Asia Pacific operations.

Mechel and Baosteel Sign Memorandum of Understanding

15 April 2013 - Mechel OAO announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Baosteel Resources in which a Mechel subsidiary will supply Baosteel with up to 960,000 tonnes of coking coal annually.

Swinburne Professor Awarded Metallurgy Honor

12 April 2013 - Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) engineering professor Geoff Brooks has been awarded the Association for Iron and Steel Technology's John F. Elliott Lectureship for 2013.

Jindal Stainless and POSCO Sign Strategic Memorandum of Understanding

12 April 2013 - Jindal Stainless Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with POSCO to mutually cooperate with each other for long-term joint business opportunities.

Severstal Launches New Finishing Press to Supply Pipes for the South Stream Project

11 April 2013 - The Izhora Pipe Plant, a producer of large diameter pipes using strips supplied by the Cherepovets Steel Mill, both business units within the Russian Steel Division of OAO Severstal, has commissioned a new finishing press.

Bloomberg: EVRAZ to Consider Sale of Czech Steel Unit After Weak Demand

11 April 2013 - Evraz Plc, Russia’s largest steelmaker by output, will study the potential sale of its lossmaking Czech unit where some operations were idled earlier this month because of weak demand, Bloomberg reports.

ArcelorMittal Provides Update on Atlantique and Lorraine Operations

11 April 2013 - ArcelorMittal announced another important step forward in its information and consultation period, part of the implementation of ArcelorMittal Atlantique and Lorraine’s industrial and commercial project.

worldsteel: Global Apparent Steel Use to Increase 2.9% in 2013

11 April 2013 - The World Steel Association (worldsteel) released its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2013 and 2014, forecasting that global apparent steel use will increase by 2.9% to 1,454 million tonnes in 2013, following growth of 1.2% in 2012.

Liepajas Metalurgs Stops Production Temporarily

11 April 2013 - Liepajas Metalurgs is temporarily stopping production for a five day period, from 10–15 April 2013, due to a decline in rebar orders caused by the economic situation in Europe.

Outotec to Deliver Technology for Iron Ore Pelletizing Plant in China

11 April 2013 - Outotec has agreed with Baotou Steel International Economic & Trading Co. Ltd on the design and delivery of an indurating furnace for a new iron ore pelletizing plant to be built in China.

Sandvik Launches New Delivery Model for Global Finance Transactions

11 April 2013 - Sandvik will implement a new shared service delivery model for parts of its transactional finance, which will likely cause redundancies, the company says.

SteelBenchmarker: Global Hot Rolled Band Prices Continue Slipping

10 April 2013 - As it released its 169th report, the bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ showed U.S. hot rolled band spot prices for 8 April 2013 slipped 0.7% to $673 per tonne, FOB the mill, for the second consecutive time.

NLMK Kaluga Commissions Energy Infrastructure Facilities

10 April 2013 - Earlier this year, NLMK Kaluga completed the construction and commissioning of the first stage of its step-down steelmaking plant substation and a 220 kW 47.6 km long transmission line.

SEAISI: Apparent Steel Consumption in ASEAN Region Rose 7.6% in 2012

09 April 2013 - According to the South East Asia Iron & Steel Institute (SEASI), apparent steel consumption in the ASEAN region (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) is estimated to have surged by 7.6% y-o-y to 56.4 million tonnes in 2012.

Gerdau Reused Over 2 Trillion Liters of Water in 2012

09 April 2013 - Gerdau reused 2 trillion liters of water across all of its operations in 2012 with a mean water recirculation rate of 97%.

Essar Steel Appoints CEO of its Odisha Operations

09 April 2013 - Essar Steel India Ltd announced the appointment of Rajendra Mittal as the chief executive officer for its Odisha operations.