Steel News

Russian Researchers Start Up Novel Iron Recovery Furnace

26 December 2018 - A Russian technical university and an industry partner have fired up a pilot-scale furnace designed to recover iron and other metals from industrial and municipal solid wastes.

Mittal Calls for Green Tax on Steel Imported Into Europe

11 December 2018 - ArcelorMittal executives on Tuesday said Europe ought to tax imported steel under the terms of its Emissions Trading System as a way to prod foreign producers into reducing emissions and maintain a level playing field for domestic producers.

Here's China's Next Big Pollution Battle: Slag Piles

11 December 2018 - China has been trying to crack down on air pollution generated by its steel industry. Now, it’s targeting another type of pollution created by the mills – the thousands of slag piles that dot the country.

ArcelorMittal Plant Turns Old Stoves to Steel Bike Racks

05 December 2018 - ArcelorMittal Poland’s Kraków plant is participating in a local civic program intended to promote cycling and cleaner air.

Swedish JV Picks Tenova Technology for Planned Hydrogen-Based DRI Plant

03 October 2018 - A joint venture that is building a pilot-scale, hydrogen-based steel mill has selected Tenova to supply key components for the facility’s direct-reduction plant.

China Eliminates Wintertime Production Restrictions

02 October 2018 - China is doing away with centrally mandated, wintertime production curtailments that were meant to reduce air pollution during the winter heating season.

China Might Again Order Steel Production Cuts

03 August 2018 - China is drafting its emissions-reductions measures for the coming winter heating season and may require steel mills in six major steel cities to curtail production by 50%, according to the Reuters news service.

China Takes a New Tack on Air Pollution Reduction

23 July 2018 - China plans to set varying production cuts among its steel mills as it adopts a more tailored approach to reducing air pollution, reports the Reuters news service.

Hydrogen Steelmaking Is Feasible...If the Industry Comes Up With a Feasible Way to Produce Hydrogen

25 June 2018 - As the steel industry looks to lower its carbon footprint, investments in hydrogen-based steelmaking research and development are surfacing. However, the process itself isn’t necessarily the biggest hurdle to overcome.

ArcelorMittal Launches Initiative Aimed at Improving Steel Building Design

21 June 2018 - The world’s largest steelmaker has created a program that aims to change the way builders think about steel in building construction.

ArcelorMittal Begins Work on Waste Gas Conversion Plant

11 June 2018 - ArcelorMittal and a Chicago-based company that has developed technology to transform industrial waste gases into ethanol have broken ground on a plant at the steelmaker’s facility in Ghent, Belgium.

voestalpine Marks the Start of Work on Hydrogen Plant

23 April 2018 - voestalpine has launched construction of a pilot-scale hydrogen electrolysis plant, a project that it hopes will pave the way for a carbon-free steelmaking.

JFE Steel Chooses Supplier for New Gas Scrubber

27 February 2018 - Japan’s JFE Steel has placed an order with Primetals Technologies for a dry-gas scrubber to serve a new sintering plant at its Fukuyama works.

U. S. Steel Sued Over Chromium Discharges

24 January 2018 - The city of Chicago has sued United States Steel Corporation in federal court over two accidental discharges of chromium into Lake Michigan.

China's Steel Capacity Forecast to Fall Below 1 Billion Tons

08 November 2017 - China’s government-mandated production curtailments are forecast to reduce hot metal production by 41 million net metric tons and coke demand by 18 million net metric tons, according to an estimate from commodities consultancy CRU.

China Looks to Cut Pollution – By Reducing Steel Output

25 September 2017 - To curb pollution, China is preparing to initiate a first wave of steel production cuts that will reduce output at its largest steelmaking city by half, reports the (London) Financial Times.

EUROFER: Material Life Cycle Costs Should Be a Part of Vehicle Emissions Standards

05 September 2017 - The European Steel Association (EUROFER) is calling on EU officials to account for the life cycle carbon costs of materials in drafting new rules for vehicle emissions.

Construction of NLMK Oxide Recovery Plant Underway

30 August 2017 - Russia’s NLMK Group has begun construction of a RUB2.8 billion (US$47.8 million) waste oxide briquetting plant at its Lipetsk facility, the company said Wednesday.

A Researcher's Dirty Idea Wins Tata Group Recognition

06 June 2017 - A U.K. researcher has been recognized by the Tata Group for her work on developing a corrosion-resistant steel coating that is derived from soil bacteria.

AK Steel to Apply Federal Grant to Electrical Steel Research

18 May 2017 - AK Steel Corp. said it has accepted a US$1.8 million federal grant, which it will use to help develop a high alloy, non-oriented electrical steel.