Australian flat steel producer BlueScope has announced that it has agreed to acquire the downstream long product rolling and marketing operations of Fletcher Building's Pacific Steel Group (Pacific Steel), based in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
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Republic Steel Executive Vice President-Commercial Ted Thielens said this week that the company’s new EAF is almost ready to resume production after weeks of repairs necessitated by a fire on November 30 that destroyed control ...
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Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has commissioned its steel melt shop-2 continuous caster complex. The new caster complex will enable ...
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Switzerland-based plantmaker SMS Concast will supply a new two-strand continuous billet caster for Slovenia-based steel producer Store Steel, according to German-based SMS Meer. The new continuous caster will produce special bar quality ...
Republic Steel announced Tuesday that it has initiated hot commissioning of its new electric arc furnace (EAF) in Lorain, Ohio. The initial heats will be cast into 6-inch x 6-inch billets and will be rolled on the 9/10-inch rolling mill, ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that the billet caster supplied to Armenia-based ASCE Group OJSC commenced operations at the Charentsavan works in August. The two-strand caster is designed for annual ...
Tags: Steel Mill, Billet Caster
Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that the six-strand high-speed billet caster of Russia-based AEMZ Company has produced its first billets. The billet caster was supplied by CVS Makina within the scope of AEMZ Company's turnkey ...
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A successful hot run test was carried out on March 15 on the continuous casting machine No. 5 of Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co., as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group ...
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Switzerland based SMS Concast has announced that it has received an order from the Indian steelmaker BMM Ispat for the delivery of a combined-caster. With the new caster, BMM Ispat will be able to produce 1.1 million mt of billets and ...
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Reportedly, Ecuadorian Andec, long product producer in Ecuador, has announced to launch its new electric arc furnace (EAF) after a 15-day trial testing run in December last year. Meanwhile, all equipment was supplied by Italy's ...
The 1,080 m3blast furnace No. 1 of Xuzhou, Jiangsu-based Chinese steelmaker Huahong Special Steel Co. has successfully commenced smelting, marking the official start of production in the first phase of the special steel project in question, ...
Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that its crude steel output amounted to 3.67 million mt in the fourth quarter of 2012, decreasing by 5.9 percent quarter on quarter and by 11.1 percent compared to the same ...
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Acciaierie di Calvisano, belonging to the Feralpi Group of Italy, commissioned Siemens Metals Technologies with the modernization of the billet caster in the Calvisano works in Italy. The aim of the project is to further improve the ...
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Taiwan's Formosa Heavy Industries is having a new progress on its steelwork in Vung Ang, Vietnam. The firm has placed an order to the Austrian plant maker Siemens for the four continuous casting machines for its new plant in Vung Ang, ...
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Siemens Metals Technologies received an order from the Taiwanese steelmaking company Formosa Heavy Industries Co to supply four continuous casting lines as part of the new construction of a Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation,steelmaking ...
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