Tata Steel will present its latest contribution to the European Hyperloop Program (EHP) project at this year’s EuroBLECH trade show. Read more
Tees Valley Mayor and Chair of Tees Valley Combined Authority, Ben Houchen, and Cllr Sue Jeffrey, Leader of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, have visited the Materials Processing Institute to meet representatives involved in Liberty House Group’s £10m project to develop a new generation of powdered metals. Read more
Starting April 1, 2019, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) will change its corporate name to Nippon Steel Corporation (Nippon Steel) as disclosed on May 16, 2018. Read more
NLMK Group, an international steel company with operations in Russia, the US, and the EU, has topped the ‘Best Freight Shipper’ nomination in the ‘Russian Railways – 15 Years Together’ Award. The Award Ceremony took place in Sochi as part of the ‘PRO//Motion.1520’ International Transport & Logistics Forum that marked the Russian Railways’ 15th anniversary. Leading Russian steel, oil and coal companies participated in the competition. The Jury commended the positive trend in the development of railway transportation and the dynamic growth of NLMK Group’s shipments. In 8M 2018, NLMK’s shipments totaled almost 33.8 million tonnes, a 3% increase year-on-year. Read more
voestalpine generated revenue of over one billion euros in the expanding Asian market during the past business year. Revenue in China alone is forecast to rise from its current level of over EUR 550 million to EUR 800 million by 2020. Now the Group is setting two further milestones on its path to achieving this growth: in the railway infrastructure sector an important step in expanding in the booming Chinese urban traffic sector has been taken with the founding of a further joint venture for the production of turnouts. In addition, recently automotive activities have been significantly extended with the startup of the second component plant in China Read more
JFE Steel Corporation announced today that it has developed a steel plate, named EXPAL™ (short for “extend painted life”), which compared to conventional carbon steel more than doubles the time before having to repaint bridges, construction machinery, industrial machinery, etc. Read more
PAO Severstal, RUSNANO and Windar Renovables have concluded an agreement to create a joint venture, WRS Bashni, LLC, to produce steel towers for wind-driven power plants (WDPP). Read more
Nucor Corporation's (NYSE: NUE) Board of Directors approved an investment of $650 million to expand the production capability of Nucor Steel Gallatin, the company's flat-rolled sheet steel mill located in Ghent, Kentucky. Read more
PJSC Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and mining companies, presented a new vibration and sound absorbing damping steel, 01U5T, during a techno-breakfast organized by the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Innovators (ARSII). Read more
Leading UK-based research and innovation centre the Materials Processing Institute has continued to strengthen its ties with international steel producers, as part of a collaborative £500,000 research project. Read more
ArcelorMittal Brazil is set to resume the expansion project at ArcelorMittal Vega, flat steel cold rolling, pickling, and galvanising unit located in São Francisco do Sul (state of Santa Catarina). Read more
HBIS has successfully signed a sales contract to provide 10,000tons of high strength ocean engineering steel to first coastal wind power project in northern China-- 300MW Puti Island Wind Power Showcase Plant in Laoting,Tangshan. Read more
The reconstruction of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (MMK) blast furnace No.1 has been completed in the run up to the Day of the Metallurgist. The history of the company dates back to the launch of this blast furnace in 1932. The new equipment will enable the company to significantly reduce its ecological pressure on the environment. Read more
North East-based research and innovation centre the Materials Processing Institute, is on course for further expansion as it enters news markets with its specialist steel capabilities. Read more
SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall’s project for creating fossil-free steel—has been granted SEK 528 million in financial backing by the Swedish Energy Agency. Read more
NLMK Group, a global steel company, is designing equipment to implement stamp charging process at Altai-Koks. This will boost coke quality and reduce the cost of its production through use of more cost-efficient grades of coking coals. Read more
ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a pioneering new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. Read more
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) was recognized as one of the world’s top 100 most innovators, by receiving the “2017 Top 100 Global Innovator Award" for the sixth consecutive year. Read more
The PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), city of Magnitogorsk, Russia, won the 2018 Award of Excellence in Energy Management from the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a high-level global forum that promotes policies and programs to advance clean energy. Read more
Nucor Corporation's (NYSE: NUE) Board of Directors approved the construction of a galvanizing line at the company's sheet mill in Arkansas to support Nucor's growth into a wider and more diverse set of strategic end-market applications. The new galvanizing line is a $240 million investment with an annual capacity of approximately 500,000 tons. It is expected to be operational in the first half of 2021. Read more
voestalpine will be a partner to the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in its European races for an initial period of two years starting with the 2018/2019 season. Titled the “voestalpine European Races”, the world’s first electric street racing series will be run in European cities including Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Monte Carlo among others - pending publication of next season’s calendar. Read more
Lakshmi N. Mittal, chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, is the 2018 recipient of The American Iron and Steel Institute's (AISI) highest award, The Gary Medal. Mittal accepted the award via video link during a lunch-time ceremony at AISI’s General Meeting in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Read more
An EU-funded flagship project for a CO2-reduced energy future and the decarbonization of steel production is taking shape: today, at the voestalpine site in Linz, the H2FUTURE project consortium, consisting of voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the go-ahead for construction of the world’s largest pilot facility for the production of “green” hydrogen. Read more
Kobe Steel, Ltd. plans to make capital investments of approximately 50 billion yen at Kakogawa Works centered on a new continuous annealing line for steel sheet in response to the growing demand for automotive ultra high-strength steel (UHSS). Kobe Steel will go forward with construction and plans to start up the new facility in February 2021. Read more
NLMK Group, an international steelmaking company, spent over 5.7 billion rubles on environmental projects and initiatives in 2017. Read more
The technology and capital goods group voestalpine is increasingly securing a key position in the dynamic and growing global electromobility industry. Read more
The UK’s leading centre for steel research, the Materials Processing Institute, is targeting further export growth after seeing turnover rise by 10%, following a series of global contract wins. Read more
JFE Steel Corporation announced today that its joint-venture company JFE Meranti Mynmar Co., Ltd (JMM) celebrated the start of construction on a plant for hot-dip galvanizing and color coating of flat-steel products for building and construction in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone near Yangon, Myanmar on March 1. Read more
HBIS has recently received a new order of 300tons of extra thick steel plates from Andritz, a world’s famous Hydropower equipment manufacturer, to produce two base ring boards of the two variable speed turbine power generation units. Read more
ArcelorMittal is supplying 770 tonnes of cryogenic steel plates through its subsidiary Industeel for a new major Shell petrochemical complex currently under construction in Pennsylvania, US. Read more
Tenaris has recently secured its first Long-Term Agreement with Chrysaor, an independent oil and gas producer in the North Sea, for the provision of OCTG casing and tubing and associated services. Read more
SAB’s, LKAB’s and Vattenfall’s pre-feasibility study is giving the green light for the fossil-free steel initiative, HYBRIT. For the first time in 1,000 years, there is an opportunity for a technology shift and, as early as this spring, a globally-unique pilot plant for fossil-free steel is being planned for Northern Sweden. Read more
Tata Steel has launched two new products, Tata Aggreto and Tata Nirman, India’s first branded LD slag products for applications in road, fly ash brick and clinker making. Read more
voestalpine has long been regarded as an environmental and efficiency benchmark in its industry, as well as a driver of innovation. Now the technology and capital goods group can complete another step towards realizing the H2FUTURE research project funded by the EU: the government of Upper Austria as the responsible EIA authority has recently authorized construction of the world’s largest pilot plant of its type for CO2-free production of hydrogen at the site in Linz. Read more
NLMK-SAP Innovations Lab together with National Centre of Internet of Things (NCIT) have developed a pilot 3D positioning system for shop-floor employees of hot-dip galvanizing line No.1 at NLMK Group’s Lipetsk site. Read more
The mobile canning line concept would allow farmers to process and preserve food onsite, massively reducing food loss. Read more
ArcelorMittal Galati, Romania, has supplied steel for an Antarctic Supply Research Vessel (ASRV) with icebreaking capabilities commissioned by the Australian government to broaden the country’s exploration of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Read more
The Commercial Court of Bordeaux has confirmed ArcelorMittal will take over the assets of Exosun, a company that specializes in trackers for solar farms. Read more