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

Mill Steel Co., one of the nation's largest distributors of flat-rolled carbon steel purchased commercial assets of Prassas Metal Products, a Los Angeles based steel trading and stocking distributor of pre-painted and coated coil products with a reputable 30-year track record. Terms of the business transaction that finalized today were not disclosed. This deal is characteristic of Mill Steel, which maintains a consistent track record of double-digit growth. It strengthens its ge

NLMK Group, a global steel company, has become an industrial partner with K1-MET, a leading European Competence Centre from Austria for the development of advanced metallurgical and environmental processes. In cooperation with the shareholders of K1-MET-voestalpine Stahl, Primetals Technologies Austria, Montanuniversität Leoben, and Johannes Kepler University Linz -NLMK is going to implement projects aimed at ensuring the efficient use and processing of recyclables in steelmaking operati

Primetals Technologies has received an order from SSAB to modernize the existing Process Automation (Level 2) of the tandem cold rolling mill in Hämeenlinna. The Level 2 solution is state of the art and replaces the existing, obsolete process automation. More precise, coordinated set-points for threading and tailing out reduce off-gauge lengths. The system features ESXi virtualization and is therefore hardware neutral. Simulation on virtual machines enables calculations for new steel gra

Zenith Steel Group Co. Ltd., one of the largest steel producers in China, has awarded SMS group the order to upgrade the existing wire rod mill at its Changzhou works in China to a combined wire rod mill. With this modernization, Zenith aims to widen its portfolio to include round bars and maximize the rolling speed for smaller-diameter products. Currently, the wire rod mill produces 780,000 tons per year of wire rod from 11.5 up to 26.5 millimeters in diameter in commercial steel g

Hoa Phat Hai Duong Steel awarded two contracts to Danieli for new long-product rolling projects at its Kinh Mon Steel Complex in Vietnam. The first contract concerns a new wirerod rolling line, and the second involves a new, six-pass finishing block for bar and wirerod products. Previously, Danieli installed four long-product rolling mills at the same location. The first project calls for a new wirerod rolling line to be installed downstream Danieli rolling mill #1, supplied in 2007

ArcelorMittal announces the launch of its first three XCarb™ initiatives, as part of the company’s journey to deliver on its 2050 net zero commitment. XCarb™ will ultimately bring together all of ArcelorMittal’s reduced, low and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities, as well as wider initiatives and green innovation projects, into a single effort focused on achieving demonstrable progress towards carbon neutral steel. To support its launch