Turkish steel manufacturer Kardemir (Karabük Demir Çelik Fabrikalari A.S.), based in Karabük, has placed an order with SMS group for the replacement of selected key components of its wire rod mill. The wire rod mill to be modernized is part of the SBQ (Special Bar Quality) plant supplied by SMS group in 2013, which has an output of 700,000 tons of bar steel, bar-in-coil and wire rod every year. The aim of the modernization is to produce more compact coils

At Guilin Pinggang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (Guilin Pinggang), a Chinese steel producer, an EAF Quantum electric arc furnace with a tapping weight of 120 metric tons and a 120 metric ton twin ladle furnace supplied by Primetals Technologies were started-up in December 2020. The furnaces were set up in a new production facility in Pingle near Guilin in Guangxi Province, which is intended to serve the growing market for rebars. The EAF Quantum is designed to handle scrap steel of varying compos

Danieli India has executed the revamping of the lower housing part of vertical edger for the existing HSM -1 at JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works, which was designed, manufactured at Danieli India design and manufacturing center, in Chennai. Danieli Service performed a detailed mill audit, checking wear and tear conditions of the edger stand and other associated equipment, and developed an engineering solution aiming for a quick restoration of the damaged edger housing to original dimensi

Nucor Corporation announced plans to build a third TrueCore manufacturing facility to be located in Brigham City, Utah. The 120,000 square foot facility will manufacture insulated wall and roof panels using state-of-the-art continuous line equipment. The new facility is expected to be operational in 2022 and will employ 50 teammates. "We are excited to be building our third TrueCore facility in the last three years. Locating in Utah will give us a national footprint and allow u

TimkenSteel Corp., a leader in customized alloy steel products and services,announced it will increase base pricing on all special bar quality (SBQ) products by $40 per ton. This increase is applicable to orders not already covered by pricing agreements and is effective for shipments beginning April 5, 2021. All surcharge mechanisms remain in effect. About TimkenSteel Corporation TimkenSteel manufactures high-performance carbon and alloy steel products in Can

NanoAL, LLC announced that it has entered into a commercial license agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd. (RtMJ) to bring its award-winning Addalloy® series of advanced aluminum alloy powders to the high-growth metal additive manufacturing market in Asia. The companies also signed a memorandum of understanding for potential partnerships for additional advanced aluminum alloy products from NanoAL, including aluminum castings and rolled sheets for the automotive and other ind

NioCorp Developments Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with Cementation USA, Inc, part of the Cementation Americas group ("Cementation"), a leading global underground mine contracting and engineering company, to continue advancing detailed engineering work associated with the Elk Creek Superalloy Materials Project (the "Project"). Under the contract, Cementation will conduct an evaluation of the current design for the Project's undergr

LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Paul Wurth and SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) to assess the building and operating of an industrial-sized, hydrogen-based steel making plant at Dunkerque in France. If developed, the plant would be one of the first operations of its type in France. The pan-European partnership will work together on a project to incorporate a 2 million

Guilin Pinggang Iron and Steel awarded Danieli the order for a Twin-MIDA ECR® Endless Casting and Rolling plant to produce 1.3 Mtpy rebar and wirerod in an energy-efficient and sustainable way. Installed nearby Gulin City, in the Guanxi province, China, the plant has been started up smoothly and now it is ramping-up at a fast pace. Danieli plants featuring Danieli Universal Endless DUE technology utilize a short induction heating system for billet temperature equalizat

In November 2020, an EAF Quantum electric arc furnace and a ladle furnace supplied by Primetals Technologies went productive at a greenfield project of Wuzhou Yongda Special Steel Co., Ltd. (Wuzhou Yongda) in Wuzhou city, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. This marks the first EAF Quantum in continuous operation in China, with another eight to come. The EAF Quantum furnace is designed to handle scrap steel of very varied composition and quality. The electrical energy requirement of the elec