Steel News

thyssenkrupp to Idle Electrical Steel Production in Europe

11 December 2025 - thyssenkupp’s steel unit will temporarily idle production of electrical steel in Europe due to cheap imports from Asia, Reuters reported.

GMH Gruppe Commissions Reducing and Sizing Block from KOCKS

11 December 2025 - KOCKS announced it has received an order from the GMH Gruppe for a reducing and sizing block (RSB®) to be used at its site in Georgsmarienhütte, Germany.

ArcelorMittal Poland Begins Production of Optigal Coating

10 December 2025 - ArcelorMittal Poland announced it has begun production of Optigal coating at galvanizing line No. 2 at its Krakow plant.

Tata Steel Taps ANDRITZ to Supply Acid Regeneration Plant

09 December 2025 - ANDRITZ announced it has received an order to supply Tata Steel’s Port Talbot Works in Wales, U.K., with an acid regeneration plant.

Jingjiang Yongjin Presents FAC to Primetals Technologies for Reversing Cold Mill Electrical Project

09 December 2025 - Chinese stainless steel producer Jingjiang Yongjin Metal Technology has awarded the final acceptance certificate (FAC) to Primetals Technologies for the supply and installation of a level 1 and level 2 automation system at its 20-high reversing cold mill No. 3 in Jingjiang City, China.

Danieli Selected to Replace DC EAF With New Digimelter for JFE BS Corp.

09 December 2025 - Danieli will replace JFE subsidiary JFE Bars & Shapes Corp.’s (JFE BS) existing DC electric arc furnace (EAF) with a new 120-metric-ton Danieli Digimelter featuring a Q-One system at Mizushima Works in the JFE Kurashiki facility of West Japan Works.

Greta Energy Taps Metso to Deliver Compact-Sized Pellet Plant

08 December 2025 - Metso signed a contract with Greta Energy Ltd. to deliver a traveling grate pelletizing plant in Chandrapur, India.

Fives Delivers Walking Hearth Reheating Furnace to Spanish Steelmaker

05 December 2025 - Fives has successfully commissioned a new walking hearth reheating furnace for Spanish steelmaker Rugui Squares & Special Profiles’ plant in Azkoitia, Spain.

ArcelorMittal France to Launch New Electrical Steel Production Line

04 December 2025 - ArcelorMittal France announced the first three lines of its new electrical steel production line at the industrial site in Mardyck, France, will come on-line by the end of 2025.

Danieli Corus Acquires NewFer

04 December 2025 - Danieli Corus B.V. and NewFer GmbH have signed an agreement in which NewFer will become a full Danieli Corus subsidiary, renamed Danieli NewFer GmbH, effective 1 December 2025.

Nucor Announces Change in Leadership

04 December 2025 - Nucor Corp. announced Stephen D. Laxton has been promoted to serve as president and chief operating officer (COO), succeeding David A. Sumoski, effective 1 January 2026.

Primetals Technologies Partners With SAIL Bokaro to Advance Green Steelmaking

04 December 2025 - Primetals Technologies and the Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) Bokaro Steel Plant have partnered to engineer a hydrogen gas injection system for a blast furnace at the facility in Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand.

Partner Companies Create a Way to Recover Iridium from Electrogalvanizing Electrodes

03 December 2025 - Salzgitter and specialty metals producer and recycler have unveiled a newly developed process that allows iridium to be recovered from anodes used in the continuous electro-galvanizing process.

Nippon Steel Enters Joint Venture Agreement With Nakayama Steel Works

01 December 2025 - Nippon Steel Corp. announced it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Nakayama Steel Works Ltd. to form a joint venture company to finance and build an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mill in Japan.

Primetals Technologies Delivers Scrap Cutting Machine to Konepeikko

01 December 2025 - Finnish recycling services provider Konepeikko Oy has turned to Primetals Technologies to deliver a torch-cutting machine to its facility in Imatra, Finland.

EMSTEEL Signs 20-Year Gas Supply Agreement With ADNOC Gas

26 November 2025 - EMSTEEL announced it has signed a 20-year natural gas supply agreement worth between US$3.5 billion and US$4.2 billion with ADNOC Gas, effective 1 January 2027.

Calderys Celebrates Successful Commissioning of New Basic Monolithics Line

25 November 2025 - Calderys announced it has successfully commissioned and started commercial production of its new basic monolithics line at its CAPES plant in Odisha.

SSAB Selects Fives to Upgrade Its Furnace Control

25 November 2025 - SSAB has selected Fives to modernize the control system of the reheating furnaces at its Raahe site in Finland.

Primetals Technologies to Deliver Hot-Dip Galvanizing Line for JFE Steel

25 November 2025 - Japanese steel producer JFE Steel Corp. has ordered a new continuous galvanizing line from Primetals Technologies for its West Japan Works in the Fukuyama district.

SSAB Prevails in Challenge to Environmental Permit for Luleå Mill

21 November 2025 - An environmental appeals court has upheld SSAB’s permit to build an electric arc furnace in Luleå, Sweden, ending uncertainty around the already-underway project.