23 Apr 2014 - Kobe Steel Ltd. of Japan and FLSmidth Private Limited of India have entered into an exclusive license agreement enabling the Indian partner to market, design and construct iron ore pellet plants using Kobe Steel’s pelletizing process called the KOBELCO Pelletizing System.
22 Apr 2014 - Kobe Steel Ltd.’s new hot-metal treatment plant has gone into operation at its Kakogawa Works in western Japan.
22 Apr 2014 - World crude steel production for the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 141 million metric tons (million metric tons) in March 2014, an increase of 2.7% compared to March 2013.
22 Apr 2014 - TMK has supplied large diameter pipe (LD pipe) for the compressor station at Yurkharovskoye field in Russia.
21 Apr 2014 - Metinvest Group’s Azovstal Iron & Steel Works is working on a challenging order — the company will produce 10,000 tons of X70 rolled pipe plates with improved mechanical properties for an Indian customer.
21 Apr 2014 - China Steel Corp. (CSC), located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has successfully commissioned a 270-ton twin-ladle furnace No. 3 supplied by SMS Mevac.
18 Apr 2014 - The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ United States HRB spot price for 14 April 2014 surged 5.2% to US$749 per metric ton for the second consecutive time.
18 Apr 2014 - Taigang Group International Trade Co. Ltd. and the end user Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co. Ltd., both located in Taiyuan, China, have successfully put into operation a new 80-metric-ton duplex RH-TOP plant (Ruhrstahl Heraeus process) supplied by SMS Mevac, and its consortium partner SMS Siemag Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
18 Apr 2014 - General Steel Holdings Inc., a non-state-owned steel producer in China, announced that its principal manufacturing facility, Shaanxi Longmen Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., has signed a supply agreement with Rio Tinto Iron Ore Asia Pte. Ltd. for procurement of imported iron ore in 2014, commencing from 1 April 2014.
18 Apr 2014 - OEMK (part of Metalloinvest) has confirmed the compliance of its occupational health and safety management system with the requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007.