06 Jun 2023 - Germany is preparing to support thyssenkrupp’s plans to build a green iron plant in Duisburg with EUR2 billion in funding, reports the Reuters news service.
06 Jun 2023 - CNC steel processing machine builder Voortman Steel Machinery has acquired Germany’s Müller Opladen GmbH, a maker of pipe processing machines.
05 Jun 2023 - SSAB and Finnish energy company Fortum will undertake a front-end engineering design of a potential industrial-scale, hydrogen-reduced sponge iron plant, the companies have announced.
05 Jun 2023 - Brazil’s Villares Metals has installed PSI Metal’s production management software on a hot rolling mill as part of an effort to improve quality control, reduce operational failures and better synchronize the equipment with other assets.
02 Jun 2023 - SSAB’s board of directors has greenlighted construction of an electric arc furnace at its Oxelösund mill, a SEK6.2 billion (US$575.6 million) investment that is projected to reduced Sweden’s national CO2 output by 3%.
01 Jun 2023 - The country’s steel ministry is seeking proposals for research and development of green hydrogen use in iron and steel production, Argus Media reported yesterday.
01 Jun 2023 - InfraBuild, an Australian long products producer owned by Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, has secured financing that will allow it to buy three U.S. wire rod operations also owned by GFG Alliance.
31 May 2023 - A Sarralle-built hot-charging system has passed its factory acceptance test and is being installed at the customer’s plant in Spain.
30 May 2023 - POSCO is set to break ground on a pilot-scale direct reduction plant that utilizes hydrogen, reports The Korea Economic Daily newspaper.
25 May 2023 - Organizers of the Global Steel Dynamics Forum are finalizing what is looking to be a world-class agenda for the conference’s inaugural year, and more of the steel industry’s bold-faced names are soon to be announced as speakers.