Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in the last quarter of 2013 three continuous slab casters were put into operation at Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Corp (TISCO). Two of the casters ...
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Australian flat steel producer BlueScope has announced that it has agreed to acquire the downstream long product rolling and marketing operations of Fletcher Building's Pacific Steel Group (Pacific Steel), based in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will modernize the slab caster No. 3 at the Duisburg-Huckingen plant of German steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM). The modernization is ...
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Nowadays Castors square measure being found in a very heap of applications, to call someone or other for searching carts, or be the workplace chairs, or the instrumentation used for material handling functions. Numerous styles of castors ...
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Republic Steel Executive Vice President-Commercial Ted Thielens said this week that the company’s new EAF is almost ready to resume production after weeks of repairs necessitated by a fire on November 30 that destroyed control ...
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Lean manufacturing has become more than just a buzzword. Lean companies like Hamilton Caster are more efficient. But Hamilton doesn't just practice lean, it helps its customers on their journeys, too. Lean manufacturing, in a nutshell, ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it has completed the upgrade of the converter and the continuous caster of German-based steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. In order to improve the metallurgical process, the specific ...
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Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has commissioned its steel melt shop-2 continuous caster complex. The new caster complex will enable ...
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Indonesia-based steelmaker PT Krakatau announced that the company president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has inaugurated PT Krakatau Posco on December 23, the joint venture between South Korean steel giant POSCO. This integrated steel mill is ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Switzerland-based plantmaker SMS Concast will supply a new two-strand continuous billet caster for Slovenia-based steel producer Store Steel, according to German-based SMS Meer. The new continuous caster will produce special bar quality ...
Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that the newly rebuilt coke oven battery No. 2 at its Durgapur steel plant has been commissioned. The rebuilding of the battery is a part of the ...
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Republic Steel announced Tuesday that it has initiated hot commissioning of its new electric arc furnace (EAF) in Lorain, Ohio. The initial heats will be cast into 6-inch x 6-inch billets and will be rolled on the 9/10-inch rolling mill, ...
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Today, more than ever, briquetting press machine makes good business sense to recover energy from production ravage and becomes popular source of fuel. The people are well aware of this fact from their long experience in wood business, ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that the billet caster supplied to Armenia-based ASCE Group OJSC commenced operations at the Charentsavan works in August. The two-strand caster is designed for annual ...
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