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U. S. Steel Vice President And Controller Greg Zovko To Retire

06 June 2014 - United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David B. Burritt announced today that Vice President and Controller Gregory A. Zovko has informed the company of his plan to retire effective June 30 after 31 years with the company.

MMFX Steel Appoints New VP of Sales and Marketing

06 June 2014 - MMFX® Steel Corporation of America has appointed Kevin McKown as the new vice president of sales and marketing.

Siemens To Supply ArcelorMittal Gent With Performance-Enhanced LiquiRob

06 June 2014 - Belgian steel producer ArcelorMittal Gent has ordered a LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens Metals Technologies to be installed on continuous slab caster CC2.

JSW Steel Wins Prime Minister’s Trophy For Excellence In Performance

06 June 2014 - JSW Steel, India’s leading steel manufacturer has won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Trophy for excellence in performance for the year 2012-13.

BlueScope Completes Acquisition of New Zealand Downstream Long Products Business From Fletcher Building

06 June 2014 - BlueScope advises that the acquisition of the downstream long-products rolling and marketing operations of Fletcher Building’s Pacific Steel Group completed today.

AK Steel Announces Executive Promotions

05 June 2014 - AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) said today that its Board of Directors has approved the promotion of the following Executive Officers, effective May 30, 2014.

American Iron and Steel Steel Institute Elects New Chairman

05 June 2014 - The Board of Directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has elected Mike Rippey, president and CEO of ArcelorMittal USA, to serve as chairman of the Institute until May 2015.

PSI Strengthens Arcelormittal Ties, With Production Management Master Agreement

04 June 2014 - PSI Metals has signed a Master Agreement with ArcelorMittal, defining the governance of the close collaboration with respect to production management solutions.

Siemens Wins Order For Mulpic Intensive Plate Cooling System From China Steel In Taiwan

03 June 2014 - China Steel Corporation (CSC), a Taiwanese steel producer, has ordered a Mulpic (multi-purpose interrupted cooling) system from Siemens Metals Technologies.

Broner’s Integrated Scheduling Solution Goes Live at CSN in Brazil

03 June 2014 - Broner Metals Solutions, worldwide specialist provider of integrated MES (manufacturing execution systems), supply chain and scheduling solutions for metals, announced its newly integrated casting and hot mill scheduling solutions are now live in production at CSN’s Volta Redonda steelmaking site in Brazil, which will enable them to achieve significant inventory reductions.

U. S. Steel to Idle Two Tubular Facilities in Pennsylvania And Texas

02 June 2014 - United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) announced today it will indefinitely idle two tubular manufacturing facilities in McKeesport, Pa., and Bellville, Texas, in early August, impacting approximately 260 employees as a result of business conditions which are influenced by unfairly traded tubular products imported into the United States.

Essar Steel Minnesota Denies Reports That It Will Be Sold

02 June 2014 - Essar Steel Minnesota LLC (ESML) categorically denies that Essar Global Fund Limited (EGFL), ESML’s ultimate shareholder, is considering selling the business, contrary to recent media reports.

ITZ Commissions New Gap Closing Press from SMS Meer

02 June 2014 - Izhorsky Trubny Zavod (ITZ), based in Kolpino near St. Petersburg, Russia, has commissioned a new 25-MN GCP® gap closing press supplied by SMS Meer.

ArcelorMittal's Largest R&D Center Unveils New Steels For Lighter Cars

02 June 2014 - ArcelorMittal has launched the first product in a new series of advanced high strength steels (AHSS), with 10 automotive steel projects set for launch in 2014.

SMS Siemag Modernizing Caster Head for Salzgitter Flachstahl

02 June 2014 - Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has awarded SMS Siemag the contract for revamping the head of the casting machine of continuous caster No. 2 at its Salzgitter, Germany, location.

Metinvest Launches Revamp of BF at PJSC Azovstal Iron & Steel Works

02 June 2014 - Metinvest Group will invest around 1 billion UAH (US$85 million) in revamping the No. 4 blast furnace at PJSC Azovstal Iron & Steel Works in Ukraine.

Metinvest Group's Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works Carries Out Major Overhaul of 160-ton BOF

30 May 2014 - Metinvest Group's Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works carried out a major overhaul of its 160-ton basic oxygen furnace (BOF) with a partial reconstruction of gas offtake.

ArcelorMittal Ostrava Cuts Emissions with US$74 Million Boiler Investment

30 May 2014 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava, Czech Republic, is to build a new boiler as part of a US$150 million modernization program for the steelmaker’s power plant.

Tata Steel Reported Significant Improvement in First Quarter

30 May 2014 - Tata Steel said the improved and steady performance of operations across geographies, despite weak market conditions, led to significantly improved Group performance in the first quarter of the year.

ArcelorMittal Celebrates Groundbreaking Plan for East Nimba Nature Reserve

30 May 2014 - ArcelorMittal Liberia has announced a major landmark in its environmental program — the first-ever management plan for the East Nimba Nature Reserve (ENNR), a unique microclimate which is home to a number of endemic species.