Steel News

Broken Contract Leads to Mothball of Teesside Plant

07 December 2009 - Corus says that an international consortium has broken a binding contract that has led to the partial implementation of a proposal announced in May 2009, mothballing some of the facilities belonging to the Teesside Cast Products business in northeast England.

Ruukki Signs Two Infrastructure Construction Contracts

07 December 2009 - Ruukki has signed a steel structure contract for the delivery of the foundation piles for the Särkijärvi bridge in Tampere, Finland. The company will also deliver almost 6 km of large diameter steel pipe piles fitted with rock shoes for the foundations of more than 20 bridges in the highway 5 improvement project in Kuopio, Finland.

ZPSS Receives Environmental Incentives from City Government

07 December 2009 - Zhangjiagang Pohang Stainless Steel recently received environmental incentives from the Zhang Jiagang Municipal Government. The grant is given by provincial or municipal governments to companies with leading environmental protection practices.

ThyssenKrupp MetalServ Established

04 December 2009 - ThyssenKrupp Group has, within the Materials Services business area, reorganized and merged its central domestic materials trading business activities under ThyssenKrupp MetalServ GmbH, effective October 15.

Redaelli Opens Wire Rope Production Facility in Italy

04 December 2009 - Redaelli has opened a new manufacturing facility in Trieste that will produce what it claims to be the largest wire ropes in the world. The facility will have the capacity to produce cables that weigh over 550 tonnes and are 175 mm in diameter.

Anti-Noise Screens Significantly Reduce Noise in Bartovice

04 December 2009 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava has erected three anti-noise screens that separate the Bartovice marshalling yard from the residential zone. A second stage of noise-reduction actions, planned for 2010, will include the erection of a fourth screen.

Mechel Announces Three Year Continuation of VTB Bank Loan

04 December 2009 - Mechel OAO and VTB Bank reach agreement for a three-year prolongation of the 15 billion rubles loan granted to Mechel in 2008.

Posco Sustainability Report Wins Gold Prize

03 December 2009 - Posco’s 2008 sustainability report has received the gold prize for the 2009 Spotlight Awards from the League of American Communications Professionals. The company also won a bronze prize in the Most Creative area.

Severstal, SAP Form Long-Term Partnership

02 December 2009 - Severstal has launched an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) project across the company to implement SAP software. A fully functional ERP solution is planned to be rolled out over the next 24 months.

Baosteel COREX-C3000 Project Awarded Luban Prize

02 December 2009 - The 2009 Luban Prize, which recognizes Chinese construction and engineering quality, was recently awarded to Baosteel Group’s Luojing Step One Project COREX-C3000 project.

BlueScope to Boost Capacity at Indonesian Plant

02 December 2009 - BlueScope Steel plans to complete construction of its second metallic coating line, with inline painting capability, at its plant in Cilegon, Indonesia. The company expects to commission the facility around mid-2011.

Posco-Nippon Steel Joint Venture Completes RHF Factory

02 December 2009 - Posco-Nippon Steel RHF Joint Venture, Co., Ltd. completes construction of the Pohang-Gwangyang Rotary Hearth Furnace factory. The RHF factories constructed in the dump area of Pohang-Gwangyang Steelworks will use dust and sludge to produce 280,000 tonnes of direct reduced iron and hot briquetted iron.

Startup of Simetal Gimbal Top Charging System at Tata Steel

01 December 2009 - The rebuilt blast furnace ‘C’ at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur works India has been operating with new Siemens Simetal Gimbal Top charging systems since the end of September. Tata Steel is the first steelmaker to utilize this new charging system on a blast furnace.

Mechel Commissions New Equipment at Subsidiary

01 December 2009 - Mechel OAO announces the completion of several investment projects at Mechel Campia Turzii plant in Romania, which is part of its East-European Steel Division. Three new production lines were launched at the plant.

JFE Receives Pipe Orders for SWQP Stage 3 Expansion Project

01 December 2009 - JFE Steel has been awarded a line-pipe order for about 42 KMT of API5L X70 ERW (electric resistance welded) for the South West Queensland Pipeline (SWQP) Stage 3 Expansion Project operated by Epic Energy in Australia.

Corus Pilot Plant to Test CO2-Reducing Technology

01 December 2009 - Corus will test a new iron-making technology, called “Hisarna,” in a pilot plant project at its IJmuiden steelworks in the Netherlands. The technology reportedly has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions in blast furnace steelmaking by more than 50%.

Nippon Steel Sheet Piles Adopted for Large-Scale Infrastructure Project

30 November 2009 - Nippon Steel’s 38-m-long “straight web-type sheet pile" has been adopted for the collision-protection structures of the second connecting bridge between the Inchon International Airport and the Songdo special free economic zone.

SAIL to Present the Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010

30 November 2009 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) and Hockey India announced recently that the Steel Authority of India Ltd. will be the Presenting Partner for the Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010, to be hosted by India in March 2010.

New President at Plannja; Other Appointments

30 November 2009 - Per Olof Stark assumes the position of President of Plannja AB beginning January 1, 2010. Stark is currently Head of Marketing at SSAB Plate in Oxelösund. The current President of Plannja, Anders Berg, will become Head of Supply Chain in the APAC business area.

Rio Tinto Enters Two Agreements with IOH

27 November 2009 - Rio Tinto reaches an agreement with Iron Ore Holdings, enabling the sale of ore from IOH's Phil's Creek deposit to Rio Tinto under a mine-gate sale process. Rio Tinto has also entered an exclusive agreement with IOH to examine its Iron Valley deposit.