Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that, together with Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC), it has completed the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, a steel processing plant in Calvert, Alabama, ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp Steel, ArcelorMittal
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that the closure of its Krefeld meltshop in Germany has been completed according to a plan announced in January 2012. The last day of operations at the meltshop was December 6, ...
Tags: stainless steel, metallurgy
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture partnership with Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) to acquire the Alabama-based steel processing plant ThyssenKrupp ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that the 400-ton converter at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's Duisburg-Bruckhausen Works produced the first heat in September this year, after modernization by SMS Siemag. The internal volume of ...
Tags: SMS Siemag, Mineral
It is reported that ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe announced to fire up its 1.7 million metric tons/year blast furnace at its Hamborn works, Duisburg, northwest Germany. However, ThyssenKrupp stopped production at Hamborn No. 9 furnace in ...
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German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has announced that blast furnace No. 9 at its Duisburg-Hamborn facility has been put back into operation again. The blast furnace was taken out of service in the spring of 2012 for relining and ...
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Wheels Task Force of Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a division of American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), has developed a lightweight steel wheel which is claimed to be equivalent in mass to a comparable aluminum wheel but 40% ...
Tags: Steel Wheel Technology, Auto Parts
An independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), revealed 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, steel, consumer packaged goods
It’s reported that Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal and ArcelorMittal plan jointly bid for ThyssenKrupp's steel business in North America, in order to improve the production of steel sheets for automobiles. It’s known that ...
Tags: Nippon Steel, JFE steel, steel sheets
The summer slowdown appears poised to push into the fall for steel importers as excess domestic supply and low prices are eroding margins, market participants told AMM. Across the board, traders and service centers cited uncertainty in the ...
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