Primetals Technologies will supply an RH degasser, continuous slab casting machine, and material handling equipment to AM/NS Calvert for their new steel meltshop. A 50/50 joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel Corp. (NSC), the facility is located in Calvert, Alabama, USA. Once completed, the plant will be capable of annually producing 1.5 million tons of slabs to feed its existing hot strip mill. This expansion will give AM/NS Calvert full control of production quality and the f

The "Steel Grating Market by Material Type, Surface Type, Fabrication, Application and End-Use Industry: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global steel grating market was valued at $182.2 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $261.2 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 4.7% from 2020 to 2027. Steel gratings consist of grid patterns formed from metals such as stai

Taseko Mines Limited announces that it has recently extended its copper price protection strategy by purchasing put options covering 41 million pounds of copper at a strike price of US$3.75 per pound for the second half of this year. The price protection now in place for the next nine months should secure a minimum operating margin of approximately C$165 million* for 2021. Stuart McDonald, President of Taseko, commented, "With the uncertainty in the world today around the impac

TENNA, the construction technology platform that revolutionizes equipment fleet operations,  announced it has launched the TennaBLE Beacon Steel Puck, the newest member of the rugged Tenna hardware product line. The TennaBLE Beacon Steel Puck device is Tenna's latest innovative hardware offering for construction equipment fleet tracking and management. Ideal for autonomously tracking the location of equipment parts and attachments such as buckets and blades that get aggress

Primetals Technologies will supply an RH degasser, continuous slab casting machine, and material handling equipment to AM/NS Calvert for their new steel meltshop. A 50/50 joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel Corp. (NSC), the facility is located in Calvert, Alabama, USA. Once completed, the plant will be capable of annually producing 1.5 million tons of slabs to feed its existing hot strip mill. This expansion will give AM/NS Calvert full control of production quality and the f

Danieli Service provides cladded rolls for a wide range of applications, not limited to ferrous-sector hot-strip mills. In fact, this technology has been applied successfully on several ferrous-sector plate and Steckel plate mills, as well as for hot- and cold-rolling mills for aluminium alloys. Introduction of surface-cladded rolls has revolutionized the basic notions of hot mill rolls, introducing allowing significant improvement in performance life and establishing the concept of

Nucor Corporation announced that it will build its new tube mill on the site of its Nucor Steel Gallatin sheet mill in Kentucky. This location will allow the Company to take advantage of investments the Company has made to expand capacity of the Gallatin mill and add a galvanizing line. The $164 million investment project is expected to be in operation by the middle of 2023 and create more than 70 new full-time jobs. "With our recent investments to expand capacity at Nucor Stee

Hydro welcomes the European Commission’s announcement of its intention to impose provisional antidumping duties on a selection of aluminium flat rolled products originating in the People's Republic of China. Following a complaint lodged in June 2020 by European Aluminium, the Commission opened in August 2020 an antidumping investigation. The investigation covers aluminium common sheet, plates and thin gauge/fin stock originating in China. The European Commission

To support a long-term modernization and sustainability strategy, Southwire will install a new SCR-9000S copper rod mill. Primetals Technologies will be responsible for engineering, manufacturing, and commissioning the rolling mill and coiling equipment as part of the patented Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) technology, which will produce electrolytic tough pitch (ETP) copper rods for electrical wire and cable applications. The mill will be installed at the Southwire facilities in Carrollton,

Atlas Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, announced that it has acquired the Shuriken™ Structural Nut Keeper.1 Shuriken allows for field-bolted HSS column splices and connections with faster erection and lower costs than other connection types. This technology could make impossible tasks possible and will render HSS the obvious choice for structural steel projects. The acquisition of Shuriken is aligned with Atlas Tube and Zekelman Industries' efforts to constantly deliver inno