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

DANIELI, LEONARDO AND SAIPEM WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE GREEN CONVERSION OF STEELDanieli, Leonardo and Saipem have signed a framework agreement to work together on projects both in Italy - particularly in the South - and abroad, for the sustainable conversion of energy-intensive primary plants in the steel sector by driving and integrating an Italian technological and production chain that constitutes a world-class excellence. The three companies propose to jointly supply technologies

The new line will have an annual capacity of approximately 700,000 metric tons of cold-rolled, stainless steel strip in the 200, 300 and 400 series. Start-up of the line is planned for the end of 2022. The ANDRITZ scope of supplies and services includes the terminal equipment, three inline S6-high rolling mills, the furnace and pickling section, a skin pass mill, and automation of the complete process section. The new line will increase capacity, improve quality and enhance the comp

Danieli Breda was selected to supply a new energy-saving extrusion line to a top producer of brass and copper products based in South-East Asia. The line consists of an extrusion press and a complete downstream handling line. The 36-MN direct-indirect press features the well-known ESED 4.0 energy-saving system and the new, web-based HMI with tablets. The downstream handling line comprises a tank for underwater extrusion, a walking-beam cooling bed for straight pr

Thyssenkrupp ended talks on a possible acquisition of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe by Liberty Steel. A sale of the steel business to Liberty Steel will therefore not take place. Dr. Klaus Keysberg: “We opened the door for negotiations, but in the end our ideas about the corporate value and the structure of the transaction were far apart. We have therefore decided to end the talks. We regret this step because we perceived Liberty Steel as a serious partner in the process. Now it i

Novelis Inc., the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today unveiled its strongest automotive aluminum product to date, Novelis AdvanzTM 7UHS-s701. The technologically advanced, ultra-high-strength material is now available commercially to the global automotive industry. The product offers lightweighting potential of up to 40% over existing ultra-high strength, hot-formed steel solutions. It is designed for safety-critical structural applications in passenger vehicles th

Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that it has successfully demonstrated the technology that can reduce a significant amount of CO2 emissions from blast furnace operations, combining the technologies of Midrex*1) in the engineering business and the blast furnace operation technology in the iron and steel business. This achievement is a result of the integrated efforts of the Kobe Steel Group (also known as the KOBELCO Group) leveraging its diverse businesses. The demonstration test was conducted for