Zekelman Industries announced today the construction of the world's largest continuous ERW tube mill. The mill will be capable of producing hollow structural sections (HSS) with a size range of 8" square x 0.750" wall up to 22" square x 1" wall. Atlas Tube, a division of Zekelman Industries, will produce square, rectangular and round structural sections in the mill. The largest rectangular section will be 34" x 10" x 1" wall, and the largest round sectio

United States Steel Corporation announced today it will invest more than $1 billion to construct a new sustainable endless casting and rolling facility at its Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pa., and a cogeneration facility at its Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., both part of the company’s Mon Valley Works.  The cutting-edge endless casting and rolling technology combines thin slab casting and hot rolled band production into one continuous process and will make Mon Valley Works th

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a new supply contract with Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.( Zhanjiang Steel), a subsidiary of Baosteel Group, a large-scale enterprise designed to meet demand for iron and steel in the South China and Southeast Asia markets. Under the terms of agreement, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction will design and build a new Air Separation Unit (ASU). The ASU with a capacity of 2,500 tons of oxygen per day  will

Novelis Inc., the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced it has developed the first aluminum sheet battery enclosure solution to address customers' needs in the rapidly growing electric vehicle and battery markets. Available globally, this innovative design for next-generation automobiles provides a more sustainable mobility solution in battery electric vehicles, a market that is expected to more than triple globally by 2025. Built with Novelis Advanz&tr

Catherine Cobden, President of the Canadian Steel Producers Association (CSPA), issued the following statement following the government's decision on steel safeguards : "The Canadian steel industry is disappointed by the government's announcement that it has not put in place final safeguard measures for the seven steel products. Many steel producing countries are implementing similar measures, and Canada's inability to act means that we are more dangerously exposed

Taseko Mines Limited is pleased to announce that a first harvest of 3,700 pounds of copper cathode (32 sheets x 117 pounds), was made at the Florence Copper Project. The copper cathode has been assayed at higher than 99.9% copper by Minerals Technology, LLC, an independent laboratory. Russell Hallbauer, President and CEO of Taseko commented, "Our test facility is performing very well and we are extremely pleased to have produced such high quality copper this early in the proces

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated today learned that the A&T Stainless joint venture’s previously filed Section 232 tariff exclusion request has been denied by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The joint venture (JV) imports semi-finished stainless slab products from Indonesia to produce 60-inch wide stainless sheet products for sale in North America. These slabs will continue to be subject to the 25% tariff levied on all stainless steel products imported into the United States.

Primetals Technologies optimized the drive and automation equipment of the pickling line-tandem cold mill (PLTCM) no. 1 at the Dangjin plant of Hyundai Steel, a Korean steel producer, within a short period of time. After a refurbishment phase at the end of 2018, all the agreed proofs of performance for the production of more than 20 different product groups were completed by January in a period of just four weeks. The production capacity of the PLTCM was substantially increased at the same ti

US demand for aluminum is forecast to rise 1.1% per year in volume terms through 2023, according to Aluminum: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Increasing production of motor vehicles – along with higher aluminum loading rates per vehicle due to a shift in consumer preference toward larger vehicles, such as SUVs – will drive growth. A 1.7% yearly increase in real US construction expenditures will support expanding shipments of aluminum building

Since February 2019, a new level 2 process automation system from Primetals Technologies has been in successful operation on the CC8 continuous slab caster in the Linz plant of the Austrian steel producer, voestalpine Stahl GmbH. It replaces an existing system on the casting plant supplied by a third-party in 2018. All the continuous casters in the Linz plant of voestalpine Stahl GmbH now feature the same version of the level 2 system from Primetals Technologies. This simplifies maintenance a