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Hollowing Out Innovation With Profile Rolling Mill

29 January 2025 - Austria’s voestalpine Tubulars has successfully commissioned and integrated a new profile rolling mill engineered by KOCKS into its hot tube rolling mill in Kindberg, Styria.

thyssenkrupp Commissions New NGO Annealing, Isolating Line

29 January 2025 - thyssenkrupp Steel Europe is starting up a new electrical steel processing line at its Bochum, Germany, plant, reports project contractor SMS group. 

Nucor Reports Profitable Q4 — And a Very Safe 2024

29 January 2025 - Nucor Corp. posted a fourth-quarter profit and reported its safest year on record, saying that accomplishment came in the context of many active year construction projects and ramp-ups. 

Trump Targets Key Imports With New Tariffs

28 January 2025 - President Donald Trump has targeted steel, aluminum and copper imports with new tariffs in an effort to ramp up U.S. production.

Volvo CE Goes Green on Serial Production of Articulated Haulers

28 January 2025 - Volvo CE has introduced low-carbon-emission steel into serial production of all their articulated haulers built in Braås, Sweden.

Partnership Forms to Produce Green Steel Tower for Wind Turbine

28 January 2025 - ENERCON, Salzgitter AG and TMGROUP are collaborating to produce a green steel tower which will be part of the Diepholzer Bruch wind farm project in Lower Saxony, Germany, early this year.

Former Steel Research Building to Become Ceramics Plant

28 January 2025 - EI Ceramics has broken ground on the US$21 million renovation project to transform the old Armco/AK Steel Research building in Middletown, Ohio, USA into a ceramic refractory plant.

Investment Firm Seeks to End Nippon Steel Merger

27 January 2025 - A Cleveland investment firm has launched a proxy battle over United States Steel Corporation, arguing that the Nippon Steel merger should be abandoned and that its future should be as a stand-alone entity. 

AISI Outlines Key Steel Industry Priorities

23 January 2025 - Enhancing existing trade measures and favorable tax policy top the U.S. steel industry’s list of policy priorities, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). 

SDI Reports Profitable Q4, Begins Commissioning of Aluminum Plant

23 January 2025 - Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) posted a fourth-quarter profit of US$1.36 per diluted share and said it expects to see healthy demand in the year ahead. 

SMS group Lands Order for Turkish Strip Mill Modernization

23 January 2025 - Turkish steelmaker Colakoğlu Metalurji AS has contracted SMS group to upgrade its 1,850 mm strip mill in Dilovası. 

ABB to Provide Automation, Control Tech to Swedish Ironmaker

23 January 2025 - Swedish startup GreenIron has selected ABB to provide automation and control system solutions for its first commercial facility in Sandviken. 

Danieli Wins Order for JSPL Quench System

21 January 2025 - Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. has decided to install a Danieli Exstream II direct quench system at its Steckel mill in Raigarh, India, Danieli has announced. 

U.S. Mill Places Order for H2 Electrolysis Equipment

21 January 2025 - Hydrogen electrolysis equipment maker Nel ASA has received a US$7 million order for two containerized electrolysis units from an unidentified U.S. steel mill. 

Hyundai Steel Sales to Outside Automakers Tops 20% 

21 January 2025 - Hyundai Steel has reached a new sales milestone, selling more than 1 million metric tons of automotive sheet in 2024 to foreign automakers other than affiliates Hyundai and Kia, reports The Korea Economic Daily.

Pacific Steel Group Lines Up US$200M for Micro-Mill

20 January 2025 - Pacific Steel Group (PSG) has secured a US$200 million loan from Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure investment firm, to support the construction of its planned California micro-mill. 

New HBIS Slab Caster Enters Service 

20 January 2025 - China’s HBIS XuanHua Iron and Steel Group successfully has started up a new single-strand slab caster at its low-carbon-emissions plant in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. 

Nucor Climate Goals Receive Global Steel Climate Council Certification 

16 January 2025 - The Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) has certified Nucor Corp.’s science-based emissions targets, the company announced Thursday.  

Metinvest Shuts Down Ukrainian Coking Coal Mine

16 January 2025 - With Russian forces advancing, Ukraine’s Metinvest has halted operations at its Pokrovske Coal unit and is evacuating employees and their families, the company has said. 

Chinese Mill Completes Production Trial on New Mill

14 January 2025 - China’s Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel has successfully trialed production of 0.7 mm strip on its new Danieli QSP-DUE plant in Hebei province.