While Ford has made inroads into increased usage of aluminum sheet in its vehicles, it is still "too early" to expect additional steel-to-aluminum announcements from other major automakers such as Toyota and General Motors, Sean Stack, CEO ...
Tags: Ford, aluminum sheet, Steel
Constellium has introduced a new aluminium solution - Aeral - which will be used in the production of aerosol containers. The Aeral developed from a specific alloy employs the Drawn and Ironed (D&I) technology, which is currently used in ...
Luxembourg based steel and mining company ArcelorMittal has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to build an automotive steel manufacturing facility in India. As per the MoU, both the ...
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US Steel Canada announced Monday that it will lay off at least 56 workers following its decision last week to idle its Hamilton coke ovens. According to local news reports, the idling will eventually affect about 100 of the plant’s ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has completed the upgrade of its continuous wide-strip hot rolling mill 2000 at Liptesk with a capacity of 5.7 million mt of rolled steel per year. The project included an upgrade of the ...
Russia-based Volgograd Steel Works (Krasny Oktyabr) has announced that it is carrying out the reconstruction of its mill-2000 into a mill-3000. The upgrade will allow the production of sheet of more than 2 meters in width and of up to 11 mt ...
Tags: Sheet Rolling, Sheet Rolling Mill
Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €30 million in the complete modernization of its wire rod mill in Neunkirchen, aiming to secure market share in the premium quality sectors for customers in ...
Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will expand the annual capacity of the heat treatment line of Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de México S.A.B de C.V. (AHMSA) at the company's Monclova plant. ...
Tags: Siemens, carbon steel plates
ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the largest metallurgical enterprise in Kazakhstan, has stated that it intends to continue updating its production capacities. Accordingly, the construction of a gas cleaning system for converter No. 3 and ...
Tags: update, production capacities, Metallurgy, Mineral
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will supply a continuous hot dip galvanizing line for the Chinese Bengang Steel Plates Co. (Bengang). With this investment, Bengang is entering the market for high-quality hot dip ...
Tags: German, galvanizing line, Metallurgy, Mineral
Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it is investing more than UAH 52 million ($4.33 million) in ...
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Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €46 million in the modernization of rolling mills, including €30 million for the rolling stand in V?lklingen and €16 million for the wire mill in ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, Rolling Mills
Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) has announced that it has signed a credit facility with Germany's KfW IPEX Bank to finance the foreign expenses regarding its special bar quality (SBQ) rolling mill investment. ...
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Indian steelmaker JSW Steel Limited has announced that it has commissioned the phase 1 of the cold roll mill No. 2 facility at Vijayanagar Works, Karnataka, consisting of a 2.3 million mt per year pickling line coupled with a tandem cold ...
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Novelis, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has commissioned a new aluminum slitting and packing line at its joint-venture facility Aluminium Norf (Alunorf) located in Neuss, Germany. The line, which involved an investment of around ...
Tags: Aluminum Slitting, Packing Line