Steel News

Nippon Steel, WISCO Formally Establish Tinplate Joint Venture

07 November 2011 - Nippon Steel and Wuhan Iron and Steel Group have formally established WINSteel, a new joint venture that will manufacture and sell tinplate in Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

Sumitomo Metals Receives “Best Partner Award” from Panasonic

04 November 2011 - The Sumitomo Metals Group received the Best Partner Award, the highest of its kind, at the recent Panasonic Excellent Partners Meeting. The Group also received the Gold Award and the Bronze Award for ECO-VC (Value Creation) Initiatives.

POS-InfraAuto Conducts Groundbreaking Ceremony

04 November 2011 - POS-InfraAuto, a joint venture among Posco-CSPC, Korean Fine Blanking manufacturer MR-InfraAuto, Dongkuk Industries, and SK Networks established in the Huaqiao Business Park in Kunshan, jiangsu of China, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 31.

Severstal Receives GOSGRANT Support for Social Projects

03 November 2011 - OAO Severstal has been recognized at the 2nd Congress of Nonprofit Organizations of Russia and All-Russia Conference (GOSGRANT) awards based on the company’s Road Home program.

Tata Steel to Begin Commissioning Stocksbridge Furnaces

03 November 2011 - Trials are due to begin by the end of 2011 on new equipment at Tata Steel’s Stocksbridge steelworks in South Yorkshire in the UK following a £6.5 million investment program to increase production of aerospace steels. Engineers are currently carrying out the final installation work.

SAIL Launches Vigilance Awareness Week

02 November 2011 - Steel Authority of India Ltd. inaugurated Vigilance Awareness Week 2011, to be observed from October 31 to November 5, by pledging "to bring about integrity and transparency, and eradication of corruption in all spheres of life."

Rebar from ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih Used to Construct New Stadium in Lviv

02 November 2011 - PJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih” supplied 20,000 tonnes of reinforcing bar for the construction of the new sports complex Arena Lviv, at which the final part of the European football championship Euro-2012 will take place.

NLMK Expands Secondary Metallurgy Capacity at Novolipetsk

02 November 2011 - NLMK has commissioned a new two million tonne/year ladle furnace (LF) at Novolipetsk, the company’s main production site in Lipetsk.

Color-Coated Steel Sheet Manufacturing Operations Established in Hanoi, Vietnam

01 November 2011 - Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet Corp. and Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., along with two local Vietnamese partners, have formed a joint venture for the production of color-coated steel sheets in Vietnam: Fujiton Color Coating Steel Joint Stock Co.

Posco Develops Heat-Radiating Steel Plates for LED TVs

01 November 2011 - Posco has developed a surface-prepared steel sheet coated at a thickness of one-fiftieth of a strand of hair, with excellent heat radiation performance, to be used as an internal panel material for LED TVs.

NLMK Launches New Quench and Temper Line at Clabecq Plant

01 November 2011 - NLMK’s Europe Management team recently opened its new Quenching &Tempering Steel transformation line at the NLMK Clabecq plant in Belgium.

JFE Steel Group Advances Plan to Integrate Electric Furnace Operators

31 October 2011 - JFE Steel announced details for a merger plan to consolidate operations for four group companies that produce steel using electric arc furnaces.

ArcelorMittal Appoints Chief Marketing Officer for ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih

28 October 2011 - ArcelorMittal announced the appointment of Debasish Dhar as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih.

PT. Gunung Orders Slab Caster from SMS Siemag

28 October 2011 - SMS Siemag has been contracted to supply a single-strand slab caster to PT. Gunung for operation at its Bekasi works in the Indonesian province of West Java.

Mechel Launches Biochemical Cleansing Equipment at Mechel-Coke

28 October 2011 - Mechel OAO celebrated this week the launch of a biochemical cleaning facility to treat phenolic wastewater from Mechel-Coke OOO’s coke and chemicals production process.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to Fund Young Researchers

27 October 2011 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG will fund a group of young researchers from Ruhr University Bochum starting January 1, 2012. The computer scientists and mathematicians will carry out research jointly with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation over a period of six years.

Former worldsteel Director General Receives Bessemer Gold Medal

27 October 2011 - Ian Christmas, former Director General of worldsteel, recently received the Bessemer Gold Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in London.

ArcelorMittal Poland to Idle Dabrowa Górnicza Blast Furnace

26 October 2011 - ArcelorMittal Poland announced plans to temporarily shut down Blast Furnace No. 3 at its plant in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

ArcelorMittal Accepts PEAMCoal Offer

26 October 2011 - ArcelorMittal provided notice to Peabody Energy that following its acceptance of PEAMCoal Pty Ltd.’s offer for Macarthur Coal Ltd., it has terminated the Co-Operation and Contribution Agreement between the two companies. ArcelorMittal will remain a shareholder in PEAMCoal until the termination arrangements are completed in approximately 90 days.

ArcelorMittal Ostrava Completes Installation of Deduster System

25 October 2011 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava has completed the installation of a new deduster system at its sinter plant three months before the scheduled date. The investment will cut dust emissions from the Sinter Plant North to less than 20 mg/m3 (from the present 50 mg/m3).