PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business announced it is supplying as much as 700 gallons of paint to refurbish the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster at Luna Park, which is regarded as one of the world’s ...
Visitors to a new cultural center in Athens that’s due to house the Greek National Opera will find that high performance coatings from AkzoNobel have taken center stage. Being designed by renowned architects Renzo Piano Building ...
Jotachar JF750, the mesh-free Passive Fire Protection (PFP) for all jet fire scenarios, an epoxy coating system for structural steel, has generated significant industry interest, securing numerous global contracts and praise from ...
Tesla Nanocoatings is expanding production of its Teslan brand of nanocoatings, a corrosion-resistant coating for structural steel, produced with SMW Specialty Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes developed by SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT). ...
This 450-tonne dump truck is claimed to be the world’s largest, with a steerable axle and body components made from high-strength steel. It earned its maker Belaz a finalist place in the 2014 Swedish Steel Prize. The Swedish Steel ...
Tags: dump truck, high-strength steel
Nucor Corporation announced Wednesday guidance for its third quarter ending October 4, 2014, expecting results to be in the range of $0.70 to $0.75 per diluted share, which represents an increase from both the third quarter of 2013 and ...
Tags: Nucor, Structural steel
The Antidumping Commission of the Australian government has announced that it has postponed the final decision date regarding its antidumping (AD) duty investigation for imports of hot rolled (HR) structural steel sections from Japan, South ...
Tags: Structural Steel, AD Duty
Aceros Carazo, a Costa Rica-based company dedicated to the import and marketing of steel industry equipment, announced this week that it has acquired Reimers Industrial, a 107-year-old distrubutor. With the acquisition of Reimers, Aceros ...
Tags: Aceros Carazo, Distributor, Energy
Villacero, Mexico's largest steel distributor, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Finnish steelmaker Ruukki to distribute special steel products in Mexico, marking the 30th country in which the European firm has a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has published an informational guide about ENVIRON MCL coatings, an environmentally-friendly, water-based coating for application on metallic coating lines over GALVALUME coated sheet ...
Tags: MCL Coatings, PPG
Brazil-based Gerdau Corsa opened a new mill this week in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, Mexico with an investment of US$600 million. The facility will be fully operational by August 2014 and will have an annual installed capacity of one ...
Tags: Gerdau Corsa, Semi-Finished
In April this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 9.1 percent month-on-month decrease in its crude steel production to 22,300 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same month increased by 2.6 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, metallurgical company
UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced that it has launched its new steel sheet pile product, becoming the only steel manufacturer in the Middle East to develop and sell sheet piles. Emirates Steel plans to ...
Tags: Emirates Steel, sheet piles
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it has added a new grade to its Optim portfolio of high-strength structural steels. The new Optim 700 QL1 is a structural steel with improved impact strength properties. According to ...
Tags: Structural Steel, Ruukki, steelmaker
Saudi-based AIC Steel Group has acquired the former Rowecord structural steel fabrication plant in Newport, Wales, and intends to restart production, creating 120 jobs, according to media reports. Rowecord plant went into administration in ...
Tags: Structural Steel, AIC Steel, Rowecord plant