Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that, to increase the competitiveness of its steelworks, it has decided on large-scale investments including a new hot-metal treatment plant, a new heat treatment furnace for steel plate, and ...
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Reportedly, Swedish-based special steel producer, Ovako, planned to increase its engineering steel production capacity in order to meet growing demand of spring steel and bearing steel. However, some of key customers have already begun ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Reportedly, Bulgarian Stomana Industry of Greece Sidenor Group, announced to sign an agreement with Japanese special steel maker Daido Steel in order to develop its special bar quality (SBQ) existing business. However, the company planned ...
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It is reported that Korean steelmaker giant Posco planned to start trial production next month at its stainless steel cold rolling (CR) mill in Kocaeli, Turkey. Meanwhile, Posco Assan TST is owned 60% by Posco, 10% by Posco’s trading ...
Baosteel Group Xinjiang Bayi Steel Co., Ltd. southern Xinjiang steel base rolling workshop rolling production lines undergo successful trial production. On the morning of March 28, Baosteel Group Bayi Steel southern Xinjiang steel ...
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It is reported that China’s Baosteel predicts the steel market will expect to improve this year but the steel production capacity will keep flat due to overcapacity problem would remain serious. The company is optimize to see the ...
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Boao Forum for Asia 2013 Annual Conference will be held from April 6 to 8 in Boao, Hainan Province. Recently, Boao Forum for Asia's magazine "Boao Observation" teams up new institutional economics originator Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate ...
Tags: Mineral, Baosteel, Internationalization Road
Speaking in Shanghai on March 6, He Wenbo, deputy to China's National People's Congress and general manager of Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel), said that Baosteel's research and development ...
In Feb.1-10 this year, China’s average daily crude steel production capacity include large and medium-sized steel enterprises amounted approximately to 1.7014 million tons this year, raise by 6.1% compared to Jan. 21-31, according to ...
Brescia, Italy-based special steel producer Leali Group has been purchased by Geneva, Switzerland-based Klesch Group. The two companies inked a binding agreement on February 21, according to which the transaction will be completed by the ...
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According to report, Argentina’ steelmaker Ternium Siderar that the company plans to restart the No. 2 blast furnace at its Siderar operation in Argentina in the first quarter of 2013. In fact, the company has participated all ...
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Reportedly, Chile's CAP Acero, the steel arm of the CAP group, announced to temporary shutdown its No. 1 blast furnace on Monday in order to replace its refractory lining. Meanwhile, the maintenance schedule will take at least 70 days ...
Turkish specialty steel producer Asil Celik has announced that it has ordered a continuous casting machine from the Swiss plantmaker SMS Concast. The new casting unit is expected to be commissioned in early 2015. The new continuous ...
Reportedly, the Spanish-based Alfonso Gallardo group has announced to restart its rebar mill after facing a general strike from the workforce for 6 months period. Currently, the company’s preparation is continued to ...
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In 2012, 38 converters were put into operation in China, adding 45 million mt of new domestic crude steel production capacity, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced on January 28.32 of the converters were entirely new, with ...
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