Open / Close Advertisement

World

All the latest headlines from all regions of the world outside the NAFTA market.

Latest News

ANDRITZ Bags Forging Furnace Order

13 January 2021 - ANDRITZ has landed an order from a slewing bearings maker thyssenkrupp rothe erde for eight chamber-forging furnaces. 

LIBERTY Steel Restarts Polish Heavy Plate Mill

12 January 2021 - LIBERTY Steel Group is leasing one of Poland’s largest steel mills and has resumed production, the company has announced. 

Tenaris Lays Plans for Italian Hydrogen Electrolyzer 

11 January 2021 - Tenaris and two other companies will work together on a project to bring hydrogen-based steelmaking to Tenaris’ Dalmine facility in Italy. 

Salzgitter Heavy Plate Mill Starts New Heat-Treat Line 

11 January 2021 - Salzgitter Group subsidiary Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH has processed the first heavy plate in a new heat-treat facility, according to the supplier of the equipment. 

China Sets Its Sights on Scrap 

07 January 2021 - China is opening up its borders to scrap steel imports, seemingly to support electric arc furnace steelmaking, reports industry publication Recycling Today. 

Paul Wurth Signed to Coke Plant Build

05 January 2021 - SMS group’s Paul Wurth subsidiary has won a contract to build a new cokemaking facility for China Steel Corp., Taiwan’s largest steel producer. 

Danieli Completes Coating Line Upgrade

05 January 2021 - Danieli Centro Combustion India has wrapped up an upgrade to a continuous galvanizing line in Vietnam, the equipment supplier reports. 

Duferco Closes Deal on Duferdofin-Nucor

21 December 2020 - Duferco today closed on a deal to fully acquire the Italian joint venture between Nucor and Duferco.

Fives Secures Intelligent Qualification Project

21 December 2020 - Stainless steel producer Acciai Speciali Terni has selected Fives for a quality qualification project as part of a digital technology improvement plan at its facility in Terni, Italy, the supplier has announced.

Russian Steel Producer Taps Danieli for New Rolling Mill

18 December 2020 - Danieli has been awarded a contract to build a special steel rolling mill for Russian steelmaker Severstal, the equipment supplier has announced. 

POSCO Lays Plans for Hydrogen Production

15 December 2020 - South Korea’s POSCO plans to ramp up hydrogen production capacity over the next 30 years and will begin laying investments in hydrogen infrastructure, reports South Korean business magazine BusinessKorea. 

Steel Plate Mill Employs Danieli Shear

15 December 2020 - French plate producer Laminoirs des Landes has commissioned a Danieli-built hydraulic hot shear at its Tarnos facility.  According to Danieli, the shear can cut hot plate up to 50 mm thick and 3,500 mm wide.

SMS group Company Awarded Contract for Laser Measurement System

14 December 2020 - SMS group’s TBK Automation und Messtechnik GmbH has received an order for a laser-based measuring system from China’s Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Masteel), the company has said.

ArcelorMittal Reaches New Agreement on ILVA 

11 December 2020 - ArcelorMittal will partner with an Italian state-owned company to run the former ILVA and its steel works in Taranto, the company has announced. 

Tata Steel Plans Environmental Investments in IJmuiden Plant

11 December 2020 - Tata Steel Europe has unveiled a EUR300 million plan to reduce emissions at its IJmuiden plant in the Netherlands.

Primetals Technologies Upgrades Its Original Arvedi ESP Line

11 December 2020 - Acciaieria Arvedi has restarted its cast-roll strip mill following upgrades that will put it on a path to reach 3 million metric tons of annual production.

Danieli: HBIS Direct Reduction Plant Will Be in a Green Class of Its Own 

10 December 2020 - China’s Hebei Iron & Steel Group’s (HBIS) planned direct reduction plant, when completed in 2021, will be the lowest carbon-emitting direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in the world, according to one of its technology partners. 

thyssenkrupp Signs with Primetals Technologies for Strip Mill Improvement 

09 December 2020 - Primetals Technologies has been contracted to replace drives on a German hot strip mill, the company has announced. 

ANDRITZ Receives Order for Sheet Processing Equipment 

07 December 2020 - Chinese flat and long steel producer Guangxi Shenglong Metallurgical Co. Ltd. has ordered a cut-to-length line and leveler from ANDRITZ, the technology supplier has said. 

AIC Looks to Enhance Customer Service Through New Partnership 

07 December 2020 - Industrial automation systems specialist Automazioni Industriali Capitanio (AIC) has struck up a partnership with a European maker of instrumentation and control technology for the iron and steel industry. 

Page 48 of 486