Improving safety practices takes management leadership, but it’s also a group effort. Kevin Lhota was still fresh in the job as production and maintenance senior leader at the ATI Allegheny Ludlum steel mill in Bagdad, PA, the first ...
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 ...
Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that it is carrying out hot run tests on two new heating furnaces as a part of the reconstruction of its hot rolling mill 2500. During the reconstruction of the ...
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Swiss plantmaker SMS Concast AG has announced that it will supply the first electric arc furnace to the Egypt-based long steel producer El Marakby Steel. The new furnace with an annual capacity of 350,000 mt will broaden El Marakby's ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will upgrade the high-speed rebar rolling mill of Russia-based Abinsk Electric Steel Works. The new equipment will enable the steelmaker to roll larger square billets than before, enhancing ...
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ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, announced the temporarily shutdown of its steel plant and rolling mills in Warsaw due to weak demand. The steel giant last week has suspended facilities in Belgium and close two idled ...
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Korean Hyundai Hysco planned to raise its production of flat products including cold rolled coils and coated steel products by 13% from a year ago to 4.8 million tons in 2013. The higher production will be mainly contributed by the ...
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Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu is seeking to capture 25% of the US stainless steel market in the next two years, rising from its current market share of 14%, according to the saying of Michael Wallis, CEO of Outokumpu Stainless ...
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a wire rod outlet for the special steel rolling mill of Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shenyuan Special Steel. The mill has an annual production capacity of more than ...
Ozkan Steel USA LLC will build a steel plant with an annual capacity of 300,000 mt in southern Louisiana, US, focused on the shipbuilding industry, with a total investment of $150 million. The steel plant will employ 350 people. The exact ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a new stainless steel rolling mill for Fujian Province-based Chinese steelmaker FuJian WuHang Stainless Steel. The new stainless rolling mill will produce wire rod and bar in ...
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Global news reports Wednesday indicated that steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal submitted a bid to purchase ThyssenKrupp AG's Calvert, Alabama flat rolled mill. The reports cited ArcelorMittal CFO Aditya Mittal during a conference call ...
Reportedly, Taiwan’s Yieh Phui Enterprise, a leading coated steel business in Taiwan, has planned to improve its current cold rolling mill annual production capacity to 1 million at its China plant which as Yieh Phui (China) ...
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Recently,Baosteel Special Material tool and die steel Cr12MoV achieves two furnace continuous casting and hot rolling plate forming.This marks that Baosteel Special Material had become the pioneer enterprise in the industry which master ...
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Reportedly,Russia's MMK has announced to produce of hot-dip galvanized coil with the surface quality in compliance with the top C category of European EN 10346:2009 standard.Meanwhile,the company trial run was based on 2,000mm wide cold ...