Japan’s crude steel output is likely to increase in 2019, amid strong local demand from construction segment ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and in the absence of major impact from natural disasters, said the head of Japan Iron and Steel Federation. The nation’s crude steel output slipped 0.3 percent to a nine-year low in 2018, as a string of natural disasters and glitches at steel plants led to slower production. The drop in output pushed Japan’s ranking to the w

Japan’s crude steel output is likely to increase in 2019, amid strong local demand from construction segment ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and in the absence of major impact from natural disasters, said the head of Japan Iron and Steel Federation. The nation’s crude steel output slipped 0.3 percent to a nine-year low in 2018, as a string of natural disasters and glitches at steel plants led to slower production. The drop in output pushed Japan’s ranking to the w

Alcoa Corporation  today announced that John Slaven will join the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, effective February 4. Slaven, 57, will be a member of Alcoa’s executive team and an officer of the Company, reporting to President and Chief Executive Officer Roy Harvey. Slaven will be responsible for supporting Alcoa’s overall strategy and will oversee the corporate and business development functions, global supply chain, and energy dev

Taseko Mines Limited is pleased to announce that the injection and recovery systems of the Florence Copper wellfield continue to demonstrate robust percolation rates as copper concentrations in the leach solutions increase towards targeted levels. Russell Hallbauer, President and CEO of Taseko commented, "During the leaching process, we are looking for a wide dispersion of solutions through the target zone with maximum contact between the solutions and the copper mineralization

Chinese steel producer HBIS Laoting Steel Co. Ltd. has ordered a new two-strand continuous slab caster from Primetals Technologies. The casting plant has a capacity of 2 million metric tons of slabs per annum and will form part of a new production facility for high-quality steels being built in the Laoting district in the south east of the autonomous city of Tangshan. Potentially hazardous tasks will be handled by LiquiRob casting platform robots. Two slab casters have already been ordered in

''The steel fiber market is projected to register a CAGR of 5.0%, in terms of value, between 2018 and 2023.'' Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05728185 The steel fiber market size is estimated at USD 2.0 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 2.5 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 5.0%. Steel fiber has various properties such as high tensile strength, durability, corrosion resistance, crack resistance, and enhanced shear strength. Due t

The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford AM, was this morning due to (7:30am) visit Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site following the completion of a major project to extend the operational life of one of its two blast furnaces. The life extension project of Blast Furnace 5 cost tens of millions of pounds and is a critical part of Tata Steel’s long-term strategy to strengthen its operations in the UK, underpinning improvements throughout its UK supply chain. Engin

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc announced today that it has appointed M. Ann Harlan and Janet L. Miller to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Ms. Harlan was formerly Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at The JM Smucker Company, a fortune 500 food manufacturing and marketing company. She currently serves on the Board of Gorman Rupp Company, also a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she has been lead director and chairs the Corporate Governance & Nomi

Chinese steel producer Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (Shougang Jingtang) has placed an order for a continuous pickling line (CPL) with Primetals Technologies. The pickling line is designed to process around 1.5 million metric tons of hot rolled strip per year. It is part of the second phase of a new production plant in Caofeidian, Hebei Province. It is designed to ultra-high strength steel (UHSS) grades for high added value products to be used in automotive, bus, truck p

Steelworkers and scientists at the scientific and technical steel-smelting laboratory of the A.A. Ugarov Stary Oskol Technological Institute, a branch of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (NUST MISiS), located at OEMK (part of Metalloinvest), have successfully developed a new steel grade at OEMK – sparingly alloyed chrome-manganese steel. Ivan Malikov, Head of the Department of New Products at OEMK, said: “The new steel grade has been developed spec