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The "Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced (ACSR) Global Market Insights 2020, Analysis and Forecast to 2025, by Manufacturers, Regions, Technology, Application, Product Type" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report describes the global market size of Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced (ACSR) from 2016 to 2020 and its CAGR from 2016 to 2020, and also forecasts its market size to the end of 2026 and its CAGR from 2021 to 2026.
Read more...16 April 2021
Steel Dynamics, Inc. provided a strategic update concerning its ongoing and new flat roll steel growth initiatives. "We are incredibly excited about the progress being made at our Sinton Texas EAF Flat Roll Steel Mill," stated Mark D. Millett, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Sinton represents transformational growth for Steel Dynamics and long-term value creation for our teams, communities, customers, and investors. Given the success of our Sinton
Read more...Russel Metals Inc. announces that it has entered into an agreement with Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America Inc. ("MITI"), whereby Russel Metals and MITI will combine their respective Canadian OCTG/line pipe businesses. In conjunction with the combination, Russel Metals will receive a substantial portion of its contributed net asset value in cash proceeds, in addition to retaining a 50% equity interest in the combined venture. Currently, Russel Metals operates its Canadian OC
Read more...Russian JSC Evraz Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works awarded Danieli with the order for the upgrade of conticaster CCM#1 at Nizhniy Tagil works, in the Sverdlovsk region. The upgraded 4-strand bloom caster will produce 1.086 Mtpy of quality blooms for railway wheels, rails and axle billets for the Russian and international markets. The 12-m radius continuous casting machine will receive liquid steel from the BOF shop and cast 300x380-mm and 430-mm round sections, which w
Read more...14 April 2021
Algerian Qatari Steel (AQS) has announced the start-up of its 2.5 million tons per year (t/y) MIDREX® Direct Reduction Plant on February 13 and first production of on-grade Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) a few days after. The plant is capable of producing both hot DRI (HDRI) and cold DRI (CDRI) and is equipped to transfer and charge HDRI to the nearby AQS steel mill to take advantage of the retained heat. The first successful charge of HDRI to the AQS Electric Arc Furnace #1 (EAF #1) was on Ma
Read more...Nucor Signs Long-term Maintenance Contract With Sms Group for One of the World’s Largest Slab Caster
14 April 2021
Nucor Corporation (Nucor) has awarded a multi-year maintenance contract to SMS group for their new continuous slab casting machine, currently being installed by SMS group in Nucor’s new heavy-plate mill in Brandenburg, Kentucky. The primary focus of this maintenance contract will be in maintaining and repairing the continuous caster molds and containment segments. The new casting machine will be one of the largest and most advanced slab casters in the world. Maintenance by SMS assures t
Read more...12 April 2021
Huadi International Group Co., Ltd., a leading developer and manufacturer of industrial stainless steel seamless pipes and tubes products in China, today announces that the Company was recently awarded stainless steel seamless pipe order contracts that worth RMB 20.65 million (approximately US $3.2 million) after winning the bid for a mining project in Gansu province, China. HUDI will supply stainless steel seamless pipes with a total value of RMB 20.65 million for a mining project
Read more...Turkish steel producer Tosyali Demir Celik Sanayi A.S. has placed an additional order with Primetals Technologies to supply an additional, second EAF Quantum electric arc furnace with a capacity of two million metric tons of liquid steel per year, and to expand the production capacity of a recently ordered two-strand slab caster to 3.4 million metric tons per year. The new order follows an order placed in 2020, which encompassed a first EAF quantum electric arc furnace, a twin vacuum-degassin
Read more...Zekelman Industries is excited today to announce the completion of exterior building work on its new mill in Blytheville, Arkansas, constructed for its Atlas Tube division. Foundation work has begun, and the mill is slated to start rolling in September 2021. Located next to one of Atlas Tube’s existing mills, this high-tech, 515,000-square-foot facility will be the largest continuous electric resistance welding (ERW) mill in the world, rolling HSS from 8″ to 22″ sq
Read more...OJSC “BSW-management company of “BMC” holding” from the beginning of 2021 has mastered production of 7 new types of steel products under the order of the customers — rebars, rolled round bars, hot-rolled seamless pipes and wire. This made it possible to increase share of innovative products in the total volume of the enterprise's shipment to 30 percent. One of the new types of products mastered at BSW this year are rolled round bars made of carbon s
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