On Monday, an explosion occurred during routine maintenance work at the DRI intake of an electric arc furnace at steelmaker Ternium's Guerrero facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The causes of the incident, which killed four and injured 10, are ...
Tags: Ternium Reports, Steel Mill
On Tuesday afternoon, firefighters responded to a fire in a coal bunker at ArcelorMittal's coke battery operation at its Burns Harbor, Indiana steelmaking facility. According to news reports on the incident, ArcelorMittal's in-house fire ...
Tags: Fire Erupts, Harbor Plant
Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with the ministry of international trade of British Columbia, Canada, ...
Tags: Ink Coal Mining, Mineral
AUSTRALIAN shares have closed slightly higher, boosted by gains from resource companies on the back of record production results from mining heavyweight Rio Tinto. Rio has announced it had increased iron ore production by six per cent to ...
At the recent 74th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held in Paris, participants from OECD and non-OECD economies discussed the prospects for improved growth in global steel demand, future ...
Tags: Steel Committee, steel, Mineral
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based diversified global industrial company Harsco Corporation announced Tuesday a new multi-year contract valued at more than $160 million over its duration with Essar Steel India Limited, one of India's largest ...
Tags: Harsco, Essar Steel, Mineral
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production fell 3.1 percent in the week ending June 29, following increases in the three prior weeks. The biggest declines were in the Midwest and Great Lakes ...
Tags: Raw Steel Production
It's reported that Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lowered Russian NLMK's long-term corporate credit rating to "BB+" from "BBB-". S&P explained that the downgrade was based on weak global steelmaking and a conservative estimate of the country ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
China’s Zhongyuan Special Steel, one of major manufacturers of retained mandrel, heavy precise forgings and drill tools in China has commissioned Austria’s Siemens Metals to install a vertical continuous caster at its new EAF ...
It’s reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steel maker in Taiwan is going to invest US$62.46 million to acquire 19% share in a ferroalloy project located in Malaysia. The project will produce ferromanganese of ...
Tags: CSC, Malaysian Project
Austrian steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it has received significant interest from potential customers for the sponge iron to be produced at its direct reduction plant planned to be built just outside the city of Corpus Christi, ...
Tags: raw mat, USA, Mexico, North America, steelmaking, Voestalpine, Istanbul
According to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, in the January-April period of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 4.3 percent year on year to 27.989 million mt. Meanwhile, in April alone Ukraine's ...
Tags: Ukraine, CIS, production, steelmaking, mining, Dnepropetrovsk
According to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' Association (Jernkontoret), in April this year Swedish crude steel production amounted to 399,900 metric tons, decreasing by 11.6 percent year on year and up 2.14 percent ...
Tags: Sweden, production, steelmaking, crude steel, European Union, Istanbul
Guangdong Province-based Chinese steel pipe manufacturer Panyu Chu Kong Steel Pipe Co. has announced that it will acquire 100 percent of shares of Nanjing Rongyu Group, the outstanding 26.17 percent of shares of Nanjing Qixiashan Steel ...
Tags: China, Southeast Asia, production, steelmaking, Shanghai
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 ...
Tags: Japan, Far East, investments, steelmaking, Kobe Steel, Istanbul