Steel News

Fire at Welspun Plant Causes Major Damage

16 July 2012 - A fire at the Welspun pipe plant in Little Rock, Ark., in the early morning of Saturday, 14 July 2012 has caused more than $1.5 million in damages and shutdown the facility temporarily.

SMS Siemag to Modernize CSP® Plant at Nucor Steel Berkeley

13 July 2012 - Nucor Steel has awarded SMS Siemag a contract for the modernization of its CSP® plant in Berkeley in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The revamp is designed to increase the finished-strip width from 1680 to 1880 mm and to allow the production of thinner strip gages.

NanoSteel Wins R&D 100 Award for Breakthrough Steel Designs

12 July 2012 - The NanoSteel® Company has been awarded its fifth R&D 100 Award, by R&D Magazine, for the development of a new class of nano-structured powder metal alloys designed for making large scale industrial components.

BlueScope Steel Receives Federal Solar Grant

12 July 2012 - Australia's BlueScope Steel has won AUD$2.3 million in Federal Emerging Renewables Program funding to develop a prototype building-integrated solar PV system.

Angang to Cut Costs and Emissions with Expanded Slag Processing

11 July 2012 - China’s Anshan Iron & Steel (Angang) plans to invest heavily in slag processing this year, increasing capacity from under 1m tonnes/year currently to 5m tonnes/year by the end of the year by installing four new slag milling units supplied by Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Polysius.

ArcelorMittal Develops Safer Crash Barriers

11 July 2012 - ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions Czech Republic has introduced to the market a new, lighter and safer road safety barrier made from micro-alloyed steel.

ArcelorMittal Belval Recovers Used Tires in Steelmaking Process

11 July 2012 - By recycling used tires instead of coal in the EAF process, the ArcelorMittal Belval site in Luxembourg is preserving natural resources, decreasing costs, and reducing CO2 emissions and global warming.

SAIL, Kobe Steel Seal Pact to Bring Environmentally-Friendly Steelmaking to India

10 July 2012 - India’s largest steel maker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Kobe Steel of Japan today signed a memorandum of agreement to set up a 0.5 million tonne per annum iron nugget making plant using Kobe’s patented ITmK3 technology at SAIL’s Alloy Steels Plant in Durgapur, West Bengal, India.

Praxair China Starts Up New Air Separation Plant for Meishan Steel

10 July 2012 - Praxair China has started up a new air separation plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province for Meishan Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of the Baosteel Group.

Two New Environmental Projects Launched at ArcelorMittal Zenica

09 July 2012 - ArcelorMittal Zenica, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has started to implement two major environmental projects at its blast furnace and coke plant.

SMS Siemag Receives Order for Record-Capacity Stainless Annealing and Pickling Line

05 July 2012 - Chinese stainless steel producer TISCO (Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Company) awarded SMS Siemag an order to supply the world’s highest-capacity annealing and pickling line for stainless hot strip.

Severstal to Upgrade Cherepovets Steel Mill to Reduce Non-Organic Dust Emissions

05 July 2012 - OAO Severstal announced a plan to cut its non-organic dust emissions across its sintering production facilties by 33% at its Cherepovets Steel Mill by 2015.

Leavitt Tube Renamed Maruichi Leavitt Pipe & Tube

02 July 2012 - Leavitt Tube Company has been renamed Maruichi Leavitt Pipe & Tube, LLC.

OMK Launches New Mill at Almetyevsk Pipe Plant

27 June 2012 - Russia's United Metallurgical Co. (OMK) has launched a new highly productive 10-65 mill by Italian MTM at its Almetyevsk Pipe Plant (APP).

OMK Signs Financing Agreement for New Pipe and Steelmaking Complex

27 June 2012 - The United Metallurgical Co. (OMK) has signed a cooperation agreement with Sberbank of Russia for the financing of the construction of an integrated pipe and steelmaking complex in the town of Chusovoy of the Perm Territory.

Investments in Technology Drive Customer Satisfaction at Michigan Seamless Tube

27 June 2012 - Michigan Seamless Tube continues to provide customers with unparalleled value by investing in new technologies that enhance the quality of its products, shorten lead times and save customers money over the long term.

ThyssenKrupp VDM Wins 2012 Steel Innovation Prize

27 June 2012 - ThyssenKrupp VDM was, together with the Jülich Research Centre, awarded the 2012 Steel Innovation Prize in the "Steel in Research & Development/Processes" category for the new material Crofer® 22 H.

ArcelorMittal Unveils iCARe™ Portfolio of Electrical Steel Solutions for Electric Vehicle Market

27 June 2012 - ArcelorMittal unveiled its first electrical steel product range designed specifically to meet the requirements of the electric vehicle sector at the Coil Winding, Insulation and Electrical Manufacturing Exhibition (CWIEME) in Berlin.

Two ArcelorMittal Mills Cut 440,000 Tonnes of Emissions with Gas Recovery Projects

27 June 2012 - ArcelorMittal Flat Carbon Europe sites in Gent and Bremen are recovering and re-using their waste gases to reduce their emissions and energy costs. Their projects have been identified as best practices for the rest of the group to replicate.

Vale Breaks Ground on Historic C$2 Billion Clean AER Project in Canada

25 June 2012 - Vale officially broke ground on 22 June on its C$2 billion "Clean AER Project," one of the largest single environmental investments in Ontario’s history, at its Sudbury nickel mine.