27 Feb 2015 - ArcelorMittal will idle its Indiana Harbor Long Carbon (IHLC) facility beginning with the electric arc furnace on 1 March 2015, followed by the rolling mill operation in Q2 2015, pending customer requirements.
27 Feb 2015 - Terex Material Handling has launched the Demag V-type crane design, a revolutionary crane that sets a new industry standard and weighs up to 17% less than comparable box-section profile girders.
27 Feb 2015 - The metals sector recorded a significant increase in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity during the fourth quarter of 2014, but the year overall saw a decline in deal value compared to 2013, according to Forging Ahead, a quarterly analysis of the global deal activity in the metals industry by PwC US.
27 Feb 2015 - Olympic Steel Inc., a national metals service center, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2014.
27 Feb 2015 - In its 214th report, the SteelBenchmarker released nine steel products and three USA scrap prices. Of these, here are four benchmark prices for hot-rolled band for 23 February 2015:
26 Feb 2015 - Tenaris will temporarily suspend operations at its welded tubes mill in Conroe, Texas, resulting in the layoff of approximately 230 employees, effective 24 April 2015.
26 Feb 2015 - Russia’s NLMK Group made a saving of 425 million rubles in 2014 through the use of pulverized coal injection (PCI) technology at two blast furnaces at its Novolipetsk production site in Lipetsk.
26 Feb 2015 - United States Steel Corporation announced the promotion of Colleen M. Darragh to the position of vice president and controller, effective immediately.
26 Feb 2015 - Alberto Iperti has been appointed CEO of Tamini, a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and service of energy transformer and a subsidiary of Terna, the company that transmits and dispatches electricity on the high voltage grid throughout Italy.
26 Feb 2015 - OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) increased 2014 shipments of metal products to automotive producers by 18% y-o-y to 415,000 tonnes from 353,000s tonnes in 2013.