Steel News

JP Steel Plantech to Supply New SBQ Mill to Jatim Taman Steel

09 March 2015 - Jatim Taman Steel has placed an order with JP Steel Plantech Co for a new SBQ mill to produce special round bar and flat bar.

TimkenSteel and SMS Meer Develop Advanced Q&T Facility

06 March 2015 - TimkenSteel has placed an order with SMS Meer for the design, construction and installation of a complete new heat treatment plant for the company’s Gambrinus complex in Canton, Ohio, USA.

Rizhao Produces First Coil on Arvedi ESP Plant from Primetals Technologies

06 March 2015 - In February, Chinese steel producer Rizhao Steel Group Co. Ltd. rolled the first coil on the ArvediESP (Endless Strip Production) plant No. 1 supplied by Primetals Technologies.

Ajax TOCCO Supplies Induction Heater for FBE Coating System at L.B. Foster

06 March 2015 - Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic recently shipped a 4,500-kW, 12-pulse, Pacer II induction heating system to the L.B.Foster Coated Products pipe coating facility in Birmingham, Ala.

U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission Introduces New Sprockets with Patented Wear Indicator Technology

05 March 2015 - U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission LLC has introduced Tsubaki SMART TOOTH sprockets utilizing the company’s patented Wear Indicator Technology that allows customers to identify and schedule drive system maintenance before critical component failure occurs.

Kenwal Steel Installs Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System

04 March 2015 - Digital Lumens announced that Kenwal Steel Corp., one of North America’s largest and most-respected flat-rolled steel distributors, has upgraded the lighting in its 100,000-square-foot steel mill in Detroit, Mich., to the Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System.

Harsco Acquires Transportation Safety Products Provider Protran Technology

03 March 2015 - Harsco Corporation has acquired Protran Technology, a New Jersey-based leader in the design and production of safety systems for transportation and industrial applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Zhejiang Kingland Puts Spiral Pipe Plant from PWS into Operation

03 March 2015 - Zhejiang Kingland Pipe Industry, based in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, has successfully commissioned a spiral pipe plant supplied by PWS.

Gerdau’s New Structural Steel Mill in Mexico Starting Up Operations

02 March 2015 - With the start of steel production scheduled for the first quarter of 2015, the melt shop of Gerdau's new steel mill in Mexico is in its final testing period.

Red Bud to Provide Multi-Blanking Line to Magic Coil Products

02 March 2015 - Magic Coil Products LLC of Butler, Ind., recently ordered a Red Bud Industries’ precision multi-blanking line.

ArcelorMittal USA Idling Indiana Harbor Long Carbon Facility

27 February 2015 - ArcelorMittal will idle its Indiana Harbor Long Carbon (IHLC) facility beginning with the electric arc furnace on 1 March 2015, followed by the rolling mill operation in Q2 2015, pending customer requirements.

Terex Material Handling Unveils Innovative Demag Crane Design

27 February 2015 - Terex Material Handling has launched the Demag V-type crane design, a revolutionary crane that sets a new industry standard and weighs up to 17% less than comparable box-section profile girders.

NLMK Generates Significant Savings through PCI Implementation at Novolipetsk

26 February 2015 - Russia’s NLMK Group made a saving of 425 million rubles in 2014 through the use of pulverized coal injection (PCI) technology at two blast furnaces at its Novolipetsk production site in Lipetsk.

MTAG Switzerland to Deliver Vacuum Degassing Installation to ArcelorMittal Hunedoara

25 February 2015 - MTAG Switzerland has signed a contract to supply a 100-metric-ton turnkey vacuum degassing installation with a dry mechanical pumping system to Romanian long product producer ArcelorMittal Hunedoara.

Tenova Goodfellow to Supply Two EFSOP Holistic Optimization Systems to SDI

24 February 2015 - Steel Dynamics Inc. has confirmed an order with Tenova Goodfellow for the supply and purchase of two EFSOP holistic optimization® systems, including water detection, for both EAF batteries at its Butler, Ind., steelmaking facility.

New Cold Rolling Mill from Primetals Technologies Produces First Coil at Tangshan

23 February 2015 - The cold rolling mill supplied by Primetals Technologies to Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co. Ltd., a Chinese steel producer, has now been brought into production and the first coil was rolled in January 2015.

MMK Introduces Advanced IT Solutions

23 February 2015 - Russia’s OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) in 2014 launched a strategic program for the adoption of advanced IT in operational and management processes.

Fives Selected for Five New High-End Automotive Steel Projects

13 February 2015 - Fives, an international engineering group which designs and supplies process technologies to various industries, has been awarded five new processing line contracts for the automotive steel market, making it in this field a dominant equipment provider to steelmakers.

MMK Carrying Out Large-Scale Blast Furnace Modernization

13 February 2015 - OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) is carrying out technical upgrades to its blast furnace No. 8.

ArcelorMittal Ostrava Casts Unique Format of Round Billets for Tube Production

12 February 2015 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava has begun production of continuous cast billets with a unique small diameter of 130 mm.