Transport Technologies and Kazakhstan Railways will jointly build the first rail mill in Kazakhstan. It's learned that the new plant is designed to have the annual capacity of 430,000 tons of rail and section and it is scheduled to be ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, Railways
Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that it has launched a new ladle furnace at its Hamburg steelworks, which is Germany's fourth largest wire rod producer. ArcelorMittal Hamburg has invested €3.5 million in the new ladle ...
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Italy's flat steel output amounted to 918,000 mt in January this year, down 28.8 percent year on year, according to the latest figures provided by Italian steel producers association Federacciai. January was the sixth consecutive month in ...
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According to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' Association (Jernkontoret), in February this year Swedish crude steel production amounted to 338,700 metric tons, decreasing by 10.5 percent year on year and down 8.6 ...
Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC), the world's second biggest steel producer, has announced the outlines of its mid-term management plan. Accordingly, the company plans to streamline its operations given that ...
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Reportedly, Indian Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) planned to invest its No.5 blast furnace at its Rourkela steelworks in the eastern state of Odisha and it expected to commission the new project by taly’s Danieli and ...
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The finished and semi-finished products of Taranto-based Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been impounded by court order in late November last year are finally to be released for sale after investigating judge Patrizia Todisco gave her ...
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Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that it has restarted its blast furnace No. 4 at the Port Talbot steelworks in the UK, the second blast furnace to be restarted at the steelworks in question, following the completion of a ...
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Reportedly, the serious accident has temporary forced to stop melting operation in the melt shop at Tokyo Steel Manufacturing’s Kyushu steelworks in western Japan. The 59 year-old Satoru Ohba, the chief of operations at the melt ...
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According to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' Association (Jernkontoret), in December 2012 Swedish crude steel production amounted to 313,600 metric tons, decreasing by 16.2 percent year on year and down 8.9 percent ...
Reportedly, Zamin Ferrous, an international group with leading supplier of direct reduction and blast furnace iron ore pellet fines to the global steel industry plans to set up iron ore operations in Brazil’s Northern Amapá ...
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A new pound 2 million scheme is beginning to upgrade the Conwy Tunnel on the A55 in north Wales and it is expected to take four weeks to complete. There will be a new lighting system put in place in the westbound tunnel using LED outdoor ...
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Workers of the Ilva Genova steelworks protest during a demonstration in Romea gainst the closure of a factory decided by the head of the company. Overhauling Italy’s rigid labor rules was supposed to be Mario Monti’s flagship ...
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Motherwell and Wishaw MP Frank Roy has praised Tata Steel’s Dalzell plant for “coming to the rescue”of a project to help build the new Forth road bridge. A Spanish firm, who were to make the steel girders that will ...
Tags: Tata Steel, Dalzell plant, Forth road bridge
Japan's domestic market prices of locally available ferrous scrap averaged JPY 24,479 per tonne delivered at steelworks for No2 HMS in the main trading areas of Kanto, Chubu and Kansai in the third week of December, up JPY 386 from a week ...
Tags: Japan, Main Trading Areas, Metallurgy