Steel News

Sidor Celebrates 50th Anniversary

11 July 2012 - Venezuelan steelmaker Sidor is celebrating 50 years of steelmaking.

ArcelorMittal Develops Safer Crash Barriers

11 July 2012 - ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions Czech Republic has introduced to the market a new, lighter and safer road safety barrier made from micro-alloyed steel.

ArcelorMittal Belval Recovers Used Tires in Steelmaking Process

11 July 2012 - By recycling used tires instead of coal in the EAF process, the ArcelorMittal Belval site in Luxembourg is preserving natural resources, decreasing costs, and reducing CO2 emissions and global warming.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Awards SMS Siemag Contract for Continuous Caster Revamp

10 July 2012 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has awarded SMS Siemag a contract covering the comprehensive and detailed planning for the revamp of its continuous caster no. 1 at the Duisburg-Beeckerwerth works.

SAIL, Kobe Steel Seal Pact to Bring Environmentally-Friendly Steelmaking to India

10 July 2012 - India’s largest steel maker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Kobe Steel of Japan today signed a memorandum of agreement to set up a 0.5 million tonne per annum iron nugget making plant using Kobe’s patented ITmK3 technology at SAIL’s Alloy Steels Plant in Durgapur, West Bengal, India.

Praxair China Starts Up New Air Separation Plant for Meishan Steel

10 July 2012 - Praxair China has started up a new air separation plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province for Meishan Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of the Baosteel Group.

Centro Combustion to Supply New Walking Beam Reheating Furnace to Jayaswal Neco

10 July 2012 - Indian steelmaker Jayaswal Neco Industries has awarded Danieli Centro Combustion Furnaces a contract to design and supply a new walking beam furnace for reheating billets and blooms.

Cliffs Natural Resources to Sell Its Sonoma Coal Mine Interest for AUD$141 Million

10 July 2012 - Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has entered into a definitive share and asset sale agreement to sell its 45% economic interest in the Sonoma joint venture coal mine located in Queensland, Australia, to QCoal Sonoma Pty Ltd.

Wuhan Iron and Steel Forms Information Technology Joint Venture

09 July 2012 - Camelot Information Systems Inc. and Wuhan Iron and Steel Engineering Technologies Group have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to create a platform upon which to develop and grow the IT applications business for the iron and steel industry.

Algeria and Qatar Ink MoU for Construction of New Algerian Steel Mill

09 July 2012 - Qatar and Algeria have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of an iron and steel production facility in Algeria which will have a production capacity of 5 million tonnes per year.

Siemens to Supply the First Compact Vacuum Degassing Plant to Indian Steelmaker

09 July 2012 - Indian steelmaker Jailaxmi Casting & Alloys Pvt Ltd. has awarded Siemens VAI Metals Technologies an order to supply a 35 ton vacuum degassing plant to its production plant in Aurangabad.

Hebei Steel Invests in Canadian Iron Ore Miner

09 July 2012 - Hebei Iron & Steel Group Co. received approval from China’s National Development and Reform Commission to invest in Canadian iron ore developer Alderon Iron Ore Corp.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Acquires Airport Metals of Australia

09 July 2012 - Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., through its newly-formed subsidiary Bralco Metals (Australia) Pty Ltd., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Airport Metals (Australia) Pty Ltd., a subsidiary of Samuel Son & Co., Limited.

Lucchini Group to Idle Piombino Blast Furnace During the Month of August

09 July 2012 - Italian steel producer Lucchini Group announced that its Piombino based blast furnace will remain idle for four straight weeks in August 2012.

Two New Environmental Projects Launched at ArcelorMittal Zenica

09 July 2012 - ArcelorMittal Zenica, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has started to implement two major environmental projects at its blast furnace and coke plant.

Metinvest Revamps MMKI Heat Station No. 1

06 July 2012 - At the first heat station of MMKI, part of Metinvest Group, large-scale construction of turboblower No. 3 was accomplished and commissioned on June 21.

Danieli Corus Receives Order for CSH Blast Furnace Reline

06 July 2012 - Danieli Corus has received an order from Chile's CAP Acero (Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato) for design and supply for the reline of its Talcahuano blast furnace No. 2.

NLMK Temporarily Reducing Pig Iron Production

06 July 2012 - NLMK announced it is idling the No. 2 blast furnace at its Lipetsk plant for a period of 60 days beginning today due to a deterioration in demand for pig iron in Russia and abroad.

SMS Siemag Receives Order for Record-Capacity Stainless Annealing and Pickling Line

05 July 2012 - Chinese stainless steel producer TISCO (Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Company) awarded SMS Siemag an order to supply the world’s highest-capacity annealing and pickling line for stainless hot strip.

TMK Announces New Executive Appointments

05 July 2012 - TMK, one of the world's leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has appointed Vladimir Oborsky as CEO of Trade House TMK and Andrei Parkhomchuk as Senior Vice President of Trade House TMK.