SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have commenced building a rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas on a pilot scale next to HYBRIT’s pilot facility for direct reduction in Luleå, North of Sweden. This is an important step in the development of a fossil-free value chain for fossil-free steel. The investment cost of just over SEK 250 million is divided equally across the holding companies and the Swedish Energy Agency, which provides support via Industriklivet. As

NLMK Group, a global steel company, has begun testing Its zinc, aluminium, and magnesium coating (ZAM) for cold-rolled products jointly with the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Compared to regular zinc coatings, ZAM makes steel three times more resistant to corrosion and increases its ductility, protecting the metal from cracking during mechanical treatment. ZAM-coated steel was developed by NLMK Group’s R&D speciali

NLMK Group, a global steel company, has launched NLMK Slab Shop, an online platform for slab sales. The service, unique for the global steel market, will enable customers to buy slabs in small batches starting from 60 tonnes. NLMK Slab Shop aggregates orders for small batches from 60 to 2,400 tonnes. Orders with the same parameters are combined into a single lot for production at NLMK. Each client of the service can form a request for any product range of the required volume or join

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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