Steel News

Tata Steel Announces Track Supply Deal with French Rail Operator

10 January 2014 - Tata Steel Europe has won a two-year contract to supply more than 200,000 tonnes of track to French rail operator SNCF.

SMS Siemag Revamps Converter for Salzgitter Flachstahl

09 January 2014 - Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Germany, has successfully put into operation a new converter vessel supplied by SMS Siemag for converter A at the Salzgitter steelworks.

Butech Bliss to Build Fulton County Processing’s New HCL Pickling Line

08 January 2014 - Fulton County Processing (FCP), a northwest Ohio-based, state-of-the-art steel coil processing company, announced that Butech Bliss and Nelson Steel will be installing a new hydrochloric push/pull pickling line set to be operational in late 2014.

Krakatau Posco Begins Operation of Plate Rolling Mill in Indonesia

06 January 2014 - Krakatau Posco's integrated blast furnace steel mill, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, began operations on 23 December 2013 in Cilegon City in the northwestern region of Indonesia’s island of Java.

Fives Delivers Annealing and Pickling Line to Chinese Steelmaker

03 January 2014 - Fives has just signed off on an annealing and pickling line for hot-rolled stainless steel strips (HAPL) for the steelmaker SWSS (South West Stainless Steel).

Taylor-Winfield Technologies Unveils New Welding Technology

03 January 2014 - Taylor-Winfield Technologies’ assistant chief engineer, Mike Prokop, recently addressed The American Welding Society with information on a new process to flash weld advanced high-strength steels (AHSS).

ArcelorMittal to Reopen Long Product Finishing Facility in Harriman, Tenn.

02 January 2014 - ArcelorMittal announced its decision to reopen ArcelorMittal Harriman, a long product finishing facility located in Harriman, Tenn., USA, around 40 miles west of Knoxville.

Northwest Pipe Acquires Permalok Corp.

02 January 2014 - Northwest Pipe Co. has acquired Permalok Corp., a fabricator of steel piping utilizing the Permalok patented interlocking pipe joining system.

EVRAZ Launches Rolling Mill in Kazakhstan

31 December 2013 - EVRAZ plc announced completion of construction and launch of its light section rolling mill in Kostanay, Kazakhstan.

Khartsyzsk Pipe's Certified by Ukrainian Safety Organization

31 December 2013 - TUV Nord Ukraine certified Khartsyzsk Pipe's products for compliance with EC 305/2011/EU. Khartsyzsk Pipe is part of the Metinvest group.

Nucor Announces Successful Start-Up of DRI Facility in Louisiana

30 December 2013 - Nucor Corp. announced the successful start-up of production at its direct reduced iron (DRI) facility in St. James Parish, La.

POSCO Introduces Supplier Quality Certification

25 December 2013 - POSCO introduced the POSCO Supplier Quality Certification, POSQC, for the first time this year, and will award quality certification certificates to material providers and external partner companies that receive excellent results.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Completes Modernization Work in Duisburg-Bruckhausen

23 December 2013 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG has extensively modernized its hot strip mill No. 1 in Duisburg-Bruckhausen. Following more than two years of work, the upgraded plant is now back in full operation.

Luneta Launches Breakthrough Lubricant Inspection Pod

23 December 2013 - Luneta announced the launch of the Condition Monitoring Pod™ (CMP), a new multi-parameter inspection device modernizing and expanding daily lubricant inspections.

Severstal Completes Maintenance at Cherepovets Steel Mill

20 December 2013 - The Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of the Russian Steel division of OAO Severstal, completed capital maintenance of its No. 2 converter.

Discovery Channel Films 'How Do They Do It?' at ArcelorMittal

17 December 2013 - The Discovery Channel has filmed an episode of its popular “How do they do it?” series at ArcelorMittal and Volkswagen, focusing on how a car is made from start to finish — including the manufacturing process for its advanced high strength Usibor® steel, through to a finished Golf VII.

First Delivery of Innovative EVRAZ Rails Shipped to Russian Railways

17 December 2013 - EVRAZ announced that it has now launched the mass production of head-hardened R65 DT-350 rails, with the first large delivery — 10,000 tons of 25-meter rails — shipped to Russian Railways.

Second Continuous Slab Caster from Siemens Starts Up at JSW Steel

16 December 2013 - In August 2013, a new continuous slab caster from Siemens Metals Technologies began operating at the Toranagallu steelworks of Indian steel producer Jindal South West Steel Ltd. (JSW Steel).

Magnetek Offers cULus Certified Dynamic Braking Resistors

16 December 2013 - Magnetek, Inc., a leading supplier of digital power and motion control systems for the material handling industry, announced the availability of a new line of cULus certified Dynamic Braking Resistors. These Dynamic Braking Resistors have been designed to meet UL508A and CSA C22.2 No. 14 safety standards.

Integrated Mill Systems Plays Key Part in Revamp of ArcelorMittal Cleveland

13 December 2013 - Among the leaders in the metals industry is ArcelorMittal’s Cleveland Works, recently described in the press as the “most productive steel plant on the planet,” is due in no small part to Integrated Mill Systems (IMS) which has lead the way for the past 10 years in helping make this a reality.