Greg Cameron Call for an “Upper Hunter Economic Development Corporation” (Newcastle Herald Editorial, March 9) were also made 20 years ago when the region wanted to participate in the benefits of a container terminal after ...
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Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that it has opened a new finishing line at its IJmuiden steelworks in the Netherlands to strengthen the supply of high-value steels to the automotive sector and other markets. Tata Steel invested ...
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Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Indonesia-based PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (PTKS) concerning their automotive flat steel products joint ...
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Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that it has established a joint venture called Kobelco Angang Auto Steel with Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel, a subsidiary of Anshan Iron & Steel Group, to produce cold rolled high-strength ...
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Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has announced that its subsidiary jointly owned with US-based multinational corporation Cargill, North Star BlueScope Steel (NSBSS), has concluded a detailed scoping and development study for a ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant for the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). The new plant will be installed at AHMSA's ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will revamp one of the converters at the Salzgitter steelworks of German-based steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. Through the modernization works, the specific volume of converter ...
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In the interests of transparency, would you re-consider your decision not to disclose the container-carrying capacity of the Port Botany rail line? As you are aware, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the line's operator, declines to ...
A privately-funded rail freight bypass of outer western Sydney is opposed by the NSW and Australian governments. Operating between Glenfield and Newcastle, the bypass line is commercially viable when used for railing containers between a ...
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It’s reported that Evraz has added a new re-rolling mill, Evraz Caspian Stal in north Kazakhstan's Kostanay region. The mill's capacity is set to be 450,000 tons of bars. Evraz holds 65% shares while the balance 35% is owned by ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rosneft President Igor Sechin took part in the launch of the most powerful Russian crude distillation unit CDU-12 at Tuapse refinery. Modernization of Tuapse refinery suggests in-process construction ...
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Russia’s United Metallurgical Co (OMK) has completed buying spring steel producer, Chusovoy Steelworks, which occupies 60% share of the Russian spring steel market. OMK had ever owned Chusovoy between 1997 and 2011. In 2014, OMK ...
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Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that its transformer components manufacturer subsidiary Cogent Power has unveiled a range of sophisticated new electrical steel products which reduce electricity losses by 20 to 30 percent compared ...
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LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB), the Swedish state-owned mining enterprise, has selected the CRedit360 sustainability data management system to monitor a wide range of environmental indicators. LKAB has introduced 'green pellets' of ...
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Russian steel mill, Rostov Steelworks (REMZ) announced that it will shut down its melt shop for maintenance around ten days in November. Traders said that it will have no allocation for export during the maintenance. The mill produces about ...
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