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The latest news on the companies producing steel or raw materials used in the iron- and steelmaking process.
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New Grade of GOES Improves Transformer Efficiency
09 June 2014 - Leading steel producer ArcelorMittal has developed a new intermediate class of grain oriented electrical steels (GOES), helping transformer manufacturers to meet environmental targets.
Vladimir Lisin Re-Elected Chairman of NLMK’s Board of Directors
09 June 2014 - NLMK’s Board of Directors today held its first meeting since the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting.
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.
