Nippon Express Global SCM (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, "NEGSS"), a local subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, has completed construction of its Qingpu Phase II Warehouse, which opened for business on Monday, November 2. The Qingpu Industrial Park in western Shanghai is a municipal-level development zone hosting an aggregation of electronic, biotech and hi-tech companies that is favorably located about 50 minutes from central Shanghai. The area also sits a

The global carbon steel market size is expected to grow by 699.35 MT during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 8% during the forecast period. The use of carbon steel in the construction sector is one of the major factors propelling market growth. The construction industry, which involves commercial, residential, and industrial sectors, is one of the significant consumers of carbon steel products. Carbon steel is used as a primary raw material for manufacturing stru

NLMK Indiana and NLMK Pennsylvania (hereinafter referred to as NLMK USA), NLMK Group’s American division companies, have reached an amicable settlement with the United States Government resolving NLMK’s lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce’s denial of NLMK’s requests for exclusion from Section 232 steel tariffs. NLMK filed the suit in the United States Court of International Trade on February 27, 2020. It covered 86 requests for slab exclusions subm

Primetals Technologies has successfully revamped electrics and automation systems at the Presidente Vargas Steelworks of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The electrics and automation systems of a RH degassing plant, a ladle furnace and the common alloy system were replaced with new versions. The RH plant and the ladle furnace were brought back into operation within only five months of order signing. The Provisional Acceptance Certific

Technavio has been monitoring the aluminum casting market and it is poised to grow by 6.81 mn MT during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of 6% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. Technavio’s in-depth research has all your needs covered as our research reports include all foreseeable market scenarios, including pre- & post-COVID-19 analysis.

The "World - Aluminium Tubes, Pipes and Tube or Pipe Fittings - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights. Update: COVID-19 Impact" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the global aluminium tube market. Within it, you will discover the latest data on market trends and opportunities by country, consumption, production and price developments, as well as the global trade (imports and exports).

In September 2020, the Steel Division of voestalpine, an international steel and technology corporation, awarded Primetals Technologies an order to modernize the basic automation systems of the continuous annealing line 1 (KGL1) in the Linz plant in Austria. The replacement of the now obsolete systems will improve the operational safety and availability of the annealing plant as well as increase personal safety. All the sequence controllers will be modernized, and the KGL1 safety concept will

Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for two semi-automatic horizontal temperature and sample-taking manipulator systems installed at the two BOF converters at the steel plant of Dillinger Hütte (AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke) in Germany. The aims of this modernization project were to improve operational safety by automating the processes and thus reducing physical presence of operators in potentially hazardous environment as well as to improve a

In July 2020, EVRAZ NTMK, a Russian steel producer, awarded Primetals Technologies an order to upgrade process optimization of the four BOF converters in its Nizhnij Tagil plant in Russia. The intelligent software from Primetals Technologies will replace the existing Level 2. Currently, the converter operators frequently have to intervene manually. The new process optimization solution offers dynamic, physical models with greater computational accuracy, and will allow improved converter opera

Penn Stainless Products has recently installed a new Mach 700 Dynamic Waterjet System from Flow Corporation at their Quakertown facility. With two independent bridges, four cutting heads, and a 157" x 479" cutting envelope, this state-of-the-art machine is a significant addition to Penn's waterjet department, which now features six Flow units. "Penn Stainless has taken its production to another level with the addition of the four-headed Mach 700," said Jody B