Press Releases
Calgary based Steel River Group Inc. ("SRG" or the "Company") announced today a new strategic partnership with Tobacco Plains Indian Band. This partnership will enhance synergistic exploration and expansion of new markets in South East Region of British Columbia and includes immediate opportunities in the mining sector with Teck Coal and the TransCanada mainline expansion. Through this new partnership, Steel River Group and Tobacco Plains Indian Band will focus o
Read more...The "Global Scrap Metal Recycling Market 2020-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The scrap metal recycling market is poised to grow by 181.56 mn MT during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of 4% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current global market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The market is driven by the increase in the price of raw mat
Read more...6 November 2020
NLMK Group, a global steel company, has delivered premium laser-treated electrical transformer steel to SVEL Group, a leading Russian manufacturer of electrotechnical equipment. NLMK steel was used to make a 630 MVA three-phase potential transformer for the Krasnoyarsk Hydro Power Plant. Built in 1972, Russia's second-largest hydro power plant, the Krasnoyarsk HPP, is located on the Yenisei River near Divnogorsk. It supplies power to the Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter. Currently,
Read more...4 November 2020
In August 2020, Primetals Technologies received an order from HBIS Group Handan Iron and Steel to upgrade an existing BOF converter in the steel plant in Handan, China, to a KOBM (“Kombinierter Oxygen Blown Bottom Maxhütte”) converter including the complete automation system.Compared to a BOF converter, the combined blowing from top and bottom in a KOBM converter results in a better bath mixing, and metallurgical reactions are closer to the equilibrium. In addition, lime inje
Read more...4 November 2020
Korea Steel Shapes Co. (KOSCO) awarded Danieli a contract to supply a new, high-speed rolling mill to produce of deformed bars in the range of 10 to 57 mm-dia, to be installed in Chilseo plant. The new rolling mill will be linked directly to a Danieli 5-strand caster, through a Danieli Automation Q-Heat induction heater. This will be the first complete Danieli minimill in South Korea – meltshop and caster having been supplied by Danieli in 2007. With zero e
Read more...3 November 2020
In October, the world´s most compact pelletizing plant was started-up at the Basantpur, Keonjhar district site of Pro Minerals Pvt. Ltd. (Pro Minerals) in the Indian State of Odisha. The plant was supplied by Primetals Technologies and applies Circular Pelletizing Technology (CPT). The plant is designed to produce pellets suitable for coal-based direct-reduction (DR) production at a capacity of 1.0 million tons per year. CPT combines the well-proven travelling-grate process with the sim
Read more...3 November 2020
The "World - Flat-Rolled Products of Iron or Non-Alloy Steel - 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 flat-rolled steel products 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
Read more...Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd on the delivery of new environmentally sound technology for Zenith’s (Zhong Tian) iron ore pelletizing plant to be built in Nantong, China. The order value is not disclosed. The contract has been booked into Metso Outotec’s Q3 2020 orders received. Metso Outotec's scope of delivery covers the engineering and design of the indurating system, engineering of the proces
Read more...30 October 2020
In August, Primetals Technologies finished a revamping project of the long rolling mill at Stahlwerk Annahütte Max Aicher GmbH & Co. KG (Stahlwerk Annahütte) in Ainring-Hammerau, Bavaria, Germany. The project encompassed the modernization of the intermediate rolling train by replacing two existing Red Ring Series 1 stands with the latest design, Red Ring Series 5 stands. These stands allow for shorter change times and offer a prolonged lifetime of wear components. Mill operation
Read more...30 October 2020
Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works Co. (JYXC), Ltd. based in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, has placed an order with SMS Concast, a company of SMS group, for a three-strand jumbo bloom caster able to continuously cast 1,200-millimeter round blooms. This will be a new record in steel production technology, as it will be the first caster in the world to produce 1,200-millimeter blooms in a curved continuous casting process. This record-breaking new bloom caster (CC#0) wit
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