Trade & Industry
Jun
Nucor-JFE Steel Mexico grants final acceptance for new hot-dip galvanising line
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
17.06.2021. Nucor-JFE Steel Mexico has granted SMS group the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the new continuous galvanising line built in Silao, Mexico. SMS group supplied the plant and was responsible for ...
Jun
Volvo Cars is first carmaker to explore fossil-free steel with SSAB
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Electromobility | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development
17.06.2021. SSAB is teaming up with Volvo Cars to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel for use in the automotive industry. The collaboration makes Volvo Cars the first carmaker to work with ...
Jun
Tangshan Heavy Plate awards FAC for three Mold Expert systems to Primetals
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
17.06.2021. In March 2021, Tangshan Heavy Plate issued Primetals Technologies with the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for three Mold Expert systems for the continuous casters at the Laoting plant in the Tangshan ...
Jun
Saarstahl bid for the French steel plants Liberty Ascoval and Liberty Rail Hayange
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Electromobility | Green Steel | Markets & Economy
17.06.2021. Saarstahl confirms its bid to Liberty Steel Group for the acquisition of its two steel plants Liberty Ascoval (in Saint-Saulve, Nord, hereafter “Ascoval”) and Liberty Rail Hayange (in Hayange, ...
Jun
Design competition purmundus challenge at Formnext 2021
Categories: Events | Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Additive Manufacturing | Digitalisation | Energy Efficiency | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability
16.06.2021. Innovation in Progress is the theme of this year’s international purmundus challenge design competition. The aim is to celebrate the latest developments in the world of 3D and 4D printing; a world where ...
Jun
Seco/Warwick to expand a CAB line for a manufacturer of battery cooling systems
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Heat Treatment | Industrial Furnaces
15.06.2021. CAB technology leader Seco/Warwick will modify the equipment in operation at an Asian customer serving the automotive sector. This is a continuation of a 2018 project, which involved the delivery and ...
Jun
Green steel production: voestalpine holds patent for carbon-neutral pre-material
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Energy Efficiency | Green Steel | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability
15.06.2021. voestalpine has developed an industrial scale process for carbon-neutral steel production without the use of fossil carbon. For that, the Group secured the intellectual property rights to the process from ...
Jun
ArcelorMittal makes first investment through its XCarb innovation fund
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Energy Efficiency | Green Steel | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability
15.06.2021. ArcelorMittal has announced the completion of its first XCarb™ innovation fund investment since launching the initiative in March 2021. The company has invested an initial 10 million $ in Heliogen, a ...
Jun
MMK selects Danieli Corus for blast furnace relining
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
14.06.2021. Russian steel producer Magnitogorsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat (MMK) has selected Danieli Corus for the reline of blast furnace #9 at its Magnitogorsk integrated steel works. During this project, the furnace ...
Jun
ArcelorMittal Zenica orders converter replacement from Primetals
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Metallurgy | Plant Engineering
10.06.2021. Bosnian steel producer ArcelorMittal Zenica d.o.o. has placed an order with Primetals Technologies to replace the vessel of BOF converter #2 and supply associated equipment. An optimised design will increase ...
Jun
Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium orders modernisation of its wide hot-strip mill
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
09.06.2021. Panzhihua Steel & Vanadium Co. Ltd., China, has awarded SMS group the order for an extensive modernisation of their 1,450-mm hot strip mill (HSM) in Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. With this comprehensive ...
Jun
Benevenuta invests in 2,500-ton forging press from Farina
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
09.06.2021. At its site in Forno Canavese close to Turin, Italy, A. Benevenuta & C. S.p.A. produces hot-forged steel components for the automotive industry. The parts are used in suspension systems, transmissions, ...
Jun
Nucor Steel Nebraska awards order to Friedrich Kocks
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
09.06.2021. Nucor Steel Nebraska has placed an order with Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG, Hilden, Germany, for the supply of a Reducing and Sizing Block (RSB®) 370++/8. The commissioning is scheduled for fall 2022. ...
Jun
Business year 2020/21: voestalpine delivers positive result and higher liquidity despite the crisis
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Markets & Economy
09.06.2021. voestalpine has presented the results of the business year 2020/21: While almost all customer segments saw demand melt away in the first business quarter, starting in the second quarter demand for ...
Jun
NextChem and Paul Wurth jointly promote combined use of electrolysis and syngas production
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Energy Efficiency | Green Steel | Hydrogen | Markets & Economy | Research & Development | Sustainability
09.06.2021. Maire Tecnimont Group’s subsidiary NextChem, and Paul Wurth, a company of SMS group and technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas ...
Jun
Eurometal orders the third Seco/Warwick furnace for its aluminium rolling mill in Poland
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Heat Treatment | Industrial Furnaces | Material Engineering
08.06.2021. Eurometal S.A., member of the Eko-Świat Group and manufacturer of highly processed aluminium products, has purchased a third Seco/Warwick furnace. This solution will be used by the only rolling mill ...
Jun
Salzgitter AG: Steel trade gains new web presence
Categories: Media | Trade & Industry
Topics: Digitalisation | Markets & Economy | Material Engineering
07.06.2021. Salzgitter Mannesmann Stahlhandel GmbH is consistently pursuing its digitalisation strategy. Therefore, the corporate homepage and the e-SHOP’s website are now combined into a joint web presence at: ...
Jun
Otto Junker launches retrofit offensive for foundry and thermoprocessing equipment
Categories: Products & Services | Trade & Industry
Topics: Digitalisation | Energy Efficiency | Industrial Furnaces | Melting & Casting | Plant Engineering | Thermprocess
07.06.2021. The production efficiency of foundry and thermoprocessing plants can be significantly increased by modernisations and modifications. One major aspect in this is the equipment control system. Otto Junker has ...
Jun
Iron ore pelletising and beneficiation plants: Primetals and NewFer sign cooperation
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Markets & Economy | Plant Engineering | Research & Development
07.06.2021. Primetals Technologies and NewFer have signed a cooperation agreement in April 2021 for the joint development and implementation of iron ore pelletising and beneficiation plants. The cooperation with NewFer ...
Jun
First coil produced on Arvedi ESP line in Hebei Province supplied by Primetals
Category: Trade & Industry
Topic: Plant Engineering
01.06.2021. In April, the first coil was produced on an Arvedi ESP line (Endless Strip Production) supplied by Primetals Technologies to a Chinese steel producer in Hebei Province. Even under pandemic conditions, ...
Jun
Seco/Warwick celebrates the company’s 30th anniversary
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Heat Treatment | Industrial Furnaces | Markets & Economy
01.06.2021. In the 1980s, two Polish engineers from “Elterma” Technical Works in Lubuskie, Andrzej Zawistowski and Janusz Gudaczewski, started a new company named TransVac in a fairly unusual place – a barn. This ...
Jun
Ovako’s Sustainability Report for 2020 outlines direction for new ambitious climate targets
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Energy Efficiency | Green Steel | Research & Development | Sustainability
01.06.2021. Ovako has published a Sustainability Report covering its activities during 2020. It shows that the company made significant sustainability improvements while also adapting to the health, safety and ...
Mai
Cross-border hydrogen project in the Saar region clears first IPCEI hurdle
Categories: Research & Development | Trade & Industry
Topics: Green Steel | Hydrogen | Research & Development | Sustainability
31.05.2021. The project proposal jointly supported by six companies with the aim of establishing a green hydrogen economy in the Saarland, France and Luxembourg scores a first, important success. Federal Economics ...
Mai
North American battery recycling market: Stelco signs MoU with Primobius
Category: Trade & Industry
Topics: Electromobility | Energy Efficiency | Green Steel | Markets & Economy | Material Engineering | Sustainability
31.05.2021. Primobius GmbH is a 50:50 joint venture company owned by Neometals Ltd., Australia, and SMS group. It aims at commercialising an environmentally friendly recycling solution for end-of-life and scrap ...