Steel News

SMS Concast Successfully Installs Continuous Caster

30 April 2025 - Reinforcing steel and profiles manufacturer, İzmir Demir Çelik Sanayi A.Ş (IDC), has expanded its steel works with SMS Concast's 7-strand continuous caster at its facility in Aliağa, İzmir, Türkiye.

Primetals Technologies Completes EAF Upgrade

30 April 2025 - Baku Steel Company CJSC group presented Primetals Technologies with the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the upgrade of its 60-metric-ton electric arc furnace (EAF) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Funding Round Yields US$186M for Startup Ironmaker

29 April 2025 - Green iron startup Electra has raised US$186 million in its Series B funding round, the company has announced.

Hydnum Steel Granted €60 Million by Spanish Government From the PERTE of Industrial Decarbonization

24 April 2025 - Hydnum Steel announced the Spanish Government has granted €60 million in funding through the strategic project for the recovery and economic transformation (PERTE) of industrial decarbonization to aid in the construction of the first green steel plant on the Iberian Peninsula, located in Puertollano.

SMS group to Upgrade AM/NS Calvert Hot Strip Mill

23 April 2025 - SMS group announced today that it has been commissioned by AM/NS Calvert to upgrade the automation control system at its 7-stand hot strip mill in Calvert, Ala., USA.

Hyundai Motor Group and POSCO to Expand Partnership in Steel and Battery Markets

21 April 2025 - Hyundai Motor Group announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with POSCO Group to expand their cooperation in both the steel and battery sectors.

U.K. Government Works to Keep British Steel’s Blast Furnaces Running, Looks to Scunthorpe’s Future

17 April 2025 - In an emergency session on Saturday, U.K. Parliament passed legislation to prevent Chinese-owned British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant from shutting down its blast furnaces and ending primary steel production in the U.K., The Guardian reported.

Primetals Technologies Completes Modernization of Angang Plate Mill

16 April 2025 - Chinese steel producer Angang Ltd. presented a final acceptance certificate (FAC) to Primetals Technologies for an automation upgrade at its plate mill in Bayuquan.

Calderys Greenfield Project Progresses

10 April 2025 - One year after the greenfield project’s groundbreaking, Calderys announced the successful trial of its acidic monolithic refractories line at the Calderys Plant in East & South India (CAPES).

Curtis Steel Places Order With Red Bud Industries

10 April 2025 - Red Bud Industries announced it has received an order for a precision blanking line, low passline slitter and a packaging line from Houston-based service center Curtis Steel Co. LLC.

Tata Steel Signs Contracts With Clecim, ABB Ltd. to Supply Pickling Line

09 April 2025 - Tata Steel announced that as part of its GBP1.25 billion investment to bring green steelmaking to its Port Talbot site in Wales, U.K., which includes GBP500 million in government support, it has signed contracts with Clecim and ABB Ltd. to supply a pickling line.

Danieli to Supply Spooler Line to Alfa Acciai

08 April 2025 - Italian steel manufacturer Alfa Acciai has tapped Danieli to supply a spooler line to be installed at its Brescia works.

Primetals Technologies, voestalpine Partner on New Iron Plant

08 April 2025 - Primetals Technologies will work with voestalpine, iron ore miner Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Corp. to build a prototype ironmaking plant that combines its hydrogen-based fine-ore reduction and smelter technologies, the companies announced Tuesday.

SMS group to Deliver Cold Rolling Complex to SSAB Luleå

03 April 2025 - SSAB has awarded SMS group with an early services agreement to deliver a cold rolling complex at its Luleå, Sweden, steel plant.

Primetals Technologies Modernizes voestalpine Basic Oxygen Furnace

03 April 2025 - voestalpine Donawitz turns to Primetals Technologies to modernize its LD converter basic oxygen furnace (BOF) No. 4 at its Donawitz site in Austria.

Tenova to Modernize and Restart 20-High Cold Rolling Mill

02 April 2025 - Italian industrial group Marcegaglia has awarded Tenova with a contract to modernize and restart its 20-high cold rolling mill at its Gazoldo degli Ippoliti plant in Mantua, Italy.

Tenova Italimpianti Modernizes thyssenkrupp Steel’s Walking Beam Furnace

31 March 2025 - Tenova announced it has completed the modernization of thyssenkrupp Steel’s walking beam furnace (WBF) at its Bruckhausen plant in Duisburg, Germany.

Danieli to Upgrade Fagersta Stainless Bar-in-Coil Line

31 March 2025 - Swedish stainless steel producer Fagersta Stainless, part of Marcegaglia Group, turns to Danieli for upgrades including a bar-in-coil line.

Hyundai Motor Group Commits to US$21 Billion Investment for U.S. Growth

27 March 2025 - Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has announced an investment of US$21 billion between 2025 to 2028, including building an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel mill in Louisiana, focusing on expanding manufacturing, advancing technologies and enhancing energy infrastructure in the U.S.

SMS group to Upgrade Seamless Tube Mill

27 March 2025 - BENTELER Steel/Tube GmbH, a seamless and welded tubes manufacturer, announced upgrades to their seamless tube mill in Paderborn-Schloss Neuhaus, Germany, with SMS group’s CARTA®neo SRM Technology System.