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NLMK USA Sets New Records in Production and Quality
Feb. 7, 2012 - NLMK’s plant at NLMK Indiana has ended 2011 setting 10 new production records, including the production of a new annual tonnage record for the meltshop of 672,756 cast tons with an average tap-to-tap time of 71.31 minutes. Capacities were running at over 90%.
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Siemens to Expand Bhushan Steel Hot Strip Mill
Jan. 18, 2012 - Bhushan Steel Ltd. has contracted Siemens to supply the electrical and automation equipment for the expansion of its existing hot-strip mill in Meramandali, in the Indian Federal State of Orissa. The equipment is scheduled to be supplied in 2012.
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USITC Makes Decision on Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate
Dec. 6, 2011 - The U.S. International Trade Commission determined that revoking the existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from India, Indonesia, and Korea would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. The existing orders on imports of these products from Italy and Japan will be revoked as a result of the Commission's negative determinations.
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Tata Steel to Mothball Llanwern Hot Strip Mill
Dec. 5, 2011 - Tata Steel has temporarily mothballed the hot strip mill at its Llanwern site in Newport, South Wales, effective immediately. The company expects the facility to remain mothballed until the UK economy and steel demand justify a restart.
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BlueScope to Restructure, Exit Export Business
Aug. 24, 2011 - BlueScope Steel has announced a major restructuring of its Australian operations, including a shutdown of No. 6 Blast Furnace at Port Kembla and closure of the Western Port Hot Strip Mill.
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Severstal NA Starts up New Cold Mill Complex at Dearborn
Aug. 19, 2011 - Severstal North America has successfully launched a new five-stand, six-high, 72-in-wide coupled pickle line tandem cold mill at its plant in Dearborn, Mich. The new facility is expected to ramp up to full capacity of 2.1 million net tons within six months.
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Siemens to Modernize Hot Strip Mill for voestalpine Stahl
Jul. 6, 2011 - Siemens has won an order from voestalpine Stahl GmbH to modernize the main drives on the hot strip mill at the company's plant in Linz. Modernization work—due to be completed in spring 2013—will take place during short maintenance shutdowns.
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Siemens VAI to Modernize Hot Mill for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe
Jun. 21, 2011 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG to completely modernize its hot strip rolling mill no. 1 in Duisburg-Bruckhausen, Germany. Modernization of the hot mill is scheduled for completion in August 2012.
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Posco Establishes Production Plant for Extra-Wide Steel Plate
Jun. 9, 2011 - After completing the annual 2 million-tonne steel plate factory at Gwangyang Steelworks in March, Posco has succeeded in the test production of 5300-mm-wide steel plate. The plant is now producing 10,000 tonnes of 4500- to 5300-mm width steel plates each month.
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Essar Steel Commissions CSP Plant from SMS Siemag
May 27, 2011 - The Compact Strip Production (CSP®) plant with three strands, supplied by SMS Siemag to Essar Steel Ltd. at Hazira in Gujarat, was successfully put into operation with one casting strand on March 31.
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MMK-Atakas Produces First 3000 Tonnes of Hot-Rolled Plate
May 23, 2011 - Iskenderun-based MMK-Atakas hot-rolling unit (compact strip mill linked to the electric arc furnace facility) has produced its first 3000 tonnes of hot-rolled plate. MMK also announced that the color coating line was put into operation at MMK-Atakas’ production site in Istanbul.
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Essar Steel to Supply Plates for Warship
May 6, 2011 - Essar Steel’s plate products have now been approved by the Indian Navy, and the company has received an order from Mazagoan Dock to supply 13,000 tonnes of heavy plates to build ships for Defense.
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Essar Steel Commissions Compact Strip Production Mill
Apr. 15, 2011 - Essar Steel has commissioned its Compact Strip Production mill with a capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), which is part of the company’s plans to expand its steel production capacity at its Hazira complex from 4.6 to 10 MTPA.
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Posco Completes Thick Steel Plate Plant in Gwangyang
Apr. 7, 2011 - Posco recently completed construction of a new thick steel plate plant in Gwangyang Steelworks that will make the company the largest steel plate producer with an annual production capacity of 7 million tons.
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Siemens to Modernize Handan Plate Mill
Feb. 23, 2011 - Handan Iron & Steel has placed an order with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to fit its three-meter plate mill in Handan with a new basic and process automation system.
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USITC to Conduct Full Sunset Reviews on CTL Steel Plate from Five Countries
Feb. 7, 2011 - The U.S. ITC has voted to conduct full five- year "sunset" reviews on countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from India, Indonesia, Italy, and Korea, and antidumping duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and Korea.
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Sumitomo Okays Siemens Mulpic Cooling System on Plate Mill
Feb. 4, 2011 - Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. recently gave Siemens VAI Metals Technologies the final acceptance certificate for the Mulpic® (Multi-Purpose-interrupted-Cooling) system installed in the plate rolling mill at their Kashima Works.
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ThyssenKrupp Rolling Mill in U.S. Features Converteam Technology
Dec. 14, 2010 - Converteam supplied the new ThyssenKrupp steel rolling mill in Alabama with complete electrical systems—1250 drive systems, basic and process automation—for the carbon steel cold rolling and processing plant and for a set of stainless steel cold rolling mills.
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Posco to Build No. 4 Hot-Rolling Mill at Gwangyang
Dec. 1, 2010 - Posco recently decided to build the Gwangyang No. 4 hot-rolling mill and a new cold-rolling mill in India to increase its supply of hot-rolled steel coil to cold-rolling steel companies in the country, and to ensure stable material supply for overseas investment companies.
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NLMK to Introduce Auxiliary Equipment for Hot Strip Mill
Nov. 24, 2010 - Novolipetsk Steel has concluded a €2.3 million contract with Sytco a.g. for the supply of a new roll-grinding machine for special grinding and proper roll surface profiling for its 5 million tonnes-per-annum capacity hot strip mill in Lipetsk.
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Converteam to Provide Engineering for Indian Plate Mill
Nov. 11, 2010 - Danieli has awarded Converteam a contract for major electrical engineering products and services for a new steel plate mill in India. The new Rourkela plate rolling facility for Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is expected to be fully operational in less than three years.
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Praxair Technology Helps ArcelorMittal Win AIST Award
Nov. 11, 2010 - Praxair, Inc. announced that its Dilute Oxygen Combustion (DOC) technology, installed at ArcelorMittal in Indiana, contributed to the steelmaker receiving the 2010 Energy Achievement Award from the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).
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Sumitomo Metals Invests in New Steel Plate Mill in Thailand
Oct. 28, 2010 - Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. has decided to take part in the Canadoil Group’s steel plate mill business in Thailand by investing in the Group, which is currently constructing a new steel plate mill in the country, and by providing technical assistance to the mill scheduled to be operational in 2013.
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Posco Announces Hot Run for Gwangyang Plate Mill
Sep. 10, 2010 - The Plate Mill of Gwangyang Works launched a hot run for the test production of all products to check quality and production on Sept. 3. Starting official production in October, the plant will produce 2 million steel plate products annually.
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Siemens Receives Order from Gerdau Açominas for Rolling Mills
Aug. 26, 2010 - Gerdau Açominas has ordered a plate mill and a Steckel mill from Siemens VAI Metals Technologies, to be constructed at Ouro Branco in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A second strand will also be added to the existing Siemens VAI continuous slab caster that initiated production a year ago.
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Outokumpu Completes Quarto Plate Upgrades at New Castle
Aug. 12, 2010 - Outokumpu will soon unveil recently completed upgrades to its North American quarto plate facility in New Castle, Ind., including a new plate finishing line and improvements to the existing 120-inch wide line.
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China Steel Celebrates Record Hot Strip Mill Throughput
Aug. 9, 2010 - The cumulative production of China Steel’s No.1 Hot Strip Mill exceeded 100 million tonnes in July 2010. One of the major projects accomplished in 1982 during the company’s Phase II Expansion Project, No.1 Hot Strip Mill currently achieves 4.0 million tonnes of annual production.
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JSW Steel Dedicates Hot Strip Mill at Vijayanagar
Aug. 2, 2010 - The new state-of-the-art hot strip mill at JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works—said to be the widest and largest in India—was dedicated by Shri Virbhadra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Steel, Govt. of India, on July 31. The new mill has 2250-mm width and a 1.5- to 25-mm thickness range.
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Siemens Receives Order from ATI for Integrated Hot-Rolling Mill
Jul. 28, 2010 - Allegheny Technologies Inc. awarded a contract to Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH to design, engineer, and supply a complete integrated hot-rolling mill on a process turn-key basis. The new mill will be part of a new advanced specialty metals hot-rolling and processing facility, and will be built at ATI Allegheny Ludlum in Brackenridge, Pa.
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Gerdau Expands Investments in Ouro Branco
Jul. 20, 2010 - Gerdau is making a new investment at its steelworks in the city of Ouro Branco (state of Minas Gerais): its first hot-rolled coil mill to be installed in Brazil. A new flat steel rolling mill also will be installed for the production of heavy plates. Joint capacity of these two rolling mills will initially be 1.9 million tonnes/year.
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Siemens to Modernize Slab Steel Works in Indonesia
Jun. 22, 2010 - Siemens has received an order from PT Krakatau Steel of Cilegon, Indonesia, to completely modernize its slab steel works no. 1. The modernized works is scheduled to come into production in the summer of 2012.
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ATI Selects Siemens VAI for New Advanced Integrated Hot-Rolling Mill
Jun. 22, 2010 - Allegheny Technologies Inc. has selected Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to design, engineer, and supply the hot-rolling mill for ATI Allegheny Ludlum’s Brackenridge, Pa., new advanced specialty metals hot-rolling and processing facility, which is expected to be completed in about four years.
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Arvedi Grants Acceptance to Siemens for Endless Strip Line
May 12, 2010 - Acciaieria Arvedi SpA has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate to Siemens VAI for its new Arvedi ESP line in Cremona, which has successfully cast 80-mm thin strands at speeds in excess of six meters per minute and endlessly rolled hot strip down to a thickness of 0.8 mm.
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Fives Stein Helps Usiminas Increase Plate Mill Capacity
Mar. 2, 2010 - To increase the capacity of the Plate Mill located in Ipatinga, Brazil, Usiminas ordered from Fives Stein Inc. a package consisting of one new Digit@l Furnace® and implementation of Level 2 system by Fives Stein on two existing furnaces.
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Tenova I2S Cluster Mill Commissioned in U.S.
Feb. 4, 2010 - Tenova I2S has commissioned a new ZR33-22” mill at MK Metalfoils USA in Duncan, S.C. MK Metalfoils runs stainless steels and special materials (e.g., nickel and nickel alloys, catalyst foils, titanium) in thicknesses down to 0.020 mm.
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Siemens Upgrades Plate Mill at Xiangtan Iron & Steel
Jan. 19, 2010 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. to supply equipment for a PowerEdger and a pre-leveler. These new plant components will be installed in the 5-meter plate mill, located in Xiangtan, Hunan Province.
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Siemens Modernizes Automation in AHMSA Hot Rolling Mill
Nov. 12, 2009 - Altos Hornos de Mexico has awarded Siemens a contract to modernize its existing basic and process automation systems in its Monclova Hot Strip Mill. Siemens will supply and install automation technology based on the Siroll HM platform.
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Arvedi ESP Line Starts Endless Strip Production
Aug. 13, 2009 - Arvedi ESP commences endless production of hot-rolled coils in a thin-slab casting/rolling plant directly from liquid steel using Arvedi technology implemented by Siemens VAI Metals Technologies.
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Siemens to Modernize Hoesch Hohenlimburg Medium Strip Mill
Jun. 1, 2009 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will modernize Hoesch Hohenlimburg's medium-strip rolling mill, including renewal of the mill’s basic and process automation systems and the roughing stand’s servo-hydraulic control equipment.
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MMK to Continue Investment in Plate Mill 5000
Nov. 26, 2008 - Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works says that work will continue with its Plate Mill 5000 investment project, which will allow the company to produce plate for a wide range of applications.
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Usiminas Updates Investment Plan
Jul. 10, 2008 - Usiminas is revising its capital investment plans to incorporate the construction of a third mill with a slab production capacity of 5 million tonnes/year at Santana do Paraíso in the vicinity of Ipatinga Works.
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Siemens to Modernize Cold Rolling Stand for Alunorf
May 5, 2008 - Siemens Metals Technologies will modernize the Aluminium Norf GmbH (Alunorf) Cold Rolling Stand No. 4, including the addition of new cooling beam for selective roll cooling and inductive edge heating.
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SMS Demag to Upgrade NLMK Hot Strip Mill
Mar. 28, 2008 - SMS Demag to further modernize the finishing train of NLMK’s hot strip mill, including the installation of CVC plus, work roll bending, and hydraulic roll-gap adjustment.
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Siemens to Modernize ArcelorMittal South Africa Hot Strip Mill
Jan. 8, 2008 - The Siemens Division Industry Solutions will equip the cooling section of ArcelorMittal South Africa’s Vanderbijlpark hot strip mill with new process and basic automation that will allow the precise control of phase transitions during strip cooling.
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SMS Demag to Revamp Salzgitter Flachstahl Hot Strip Mill
Dec. 28, 2007 - SMS Demag’s modernization of Salzgitter Flachstahl’s hot strip mill will include comprises extensive revamping of the roughing and finishing trains, plus the installation of new gears and a new coiler and coil conveyor system.
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SMS Demag to Supply Heavy-Plate Mill for Vyksa Steel
Dec. 27, 2007 - SMS Demag will supply a 1.2-million tonne/year heavy plate mill for Vyksa Steel that will incorporate a newly developed to-part spray cooling system capable of direct quenching and accelerated cooling of tube-steel plates.
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Siemens to Supply Second 5-Meter Plate Mill for Shagang
Nov. 12, 2007 - Siemens Metals Technologies will supply a second 5.0-meter-wide plate mill for Shagang Wide Plate Mills in China. The plate mill will incorporate a Mulpic system for production of high strength plate, and a fully hydraulic nine-roll leveler to optimize plate flatness.
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Danieli to Construct New Flat Products Complex for MMK-Atakas
Oct. 22, 2007 - Danieli will be the sole supplier of technological equipment for a new flat products complex MMK-Atakaş is planning for Iskenderun, Turkey, including EAF-based meltshop and caster, high-capacity hot rolling mill, continuous pickling line, cold rolling mill, hot dip galvanizing, and coil coating facilities.
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Siemens to Supply Plate Mill for Dongkuk
Oct. 8, 2007 - Siemens Metals Technologies will supply the entire mechanical equipment and automation system for a new 5-meter wide plate mill for Dongkuk Steel Mill.
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Danieli to Revamp Dunaferr Roughing Mill
Aug. 7, 2007 - Danieli Wean United signs contract with Dunaferr, Hungary, for the turnkey supply of a new reversing roughing mill, attached edger, descaling system, and hot coilbox automation.
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SMS Demag to Upgrade Tata Steel Strip Mill
Aug. 6, 2007 - Tata Iron & Steel awards SMS Demag a contract for the modernization of its hot strip mill in Jamshedpur that will allow production to increase from 3.1 million to 3.5 million tonnes per year.
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Tenova Completes Commissioning of Termium Reheat Furnace
Jul. 19, 2007 - Following completion of commissioning and testing, Tenova LOI Italimpianti is awarded the final acceptance certificate for the recently installed Slab Reheat Furnace No. 5 at Ternium’s steel plant in San Nicolás, Argentina.
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Beta Steel Grants Final Acceptance for Revamped Hot Strip Mill
Jun. 14, 2007 - Beta Steel grants final acceptance to Danieli for its revamped hot strip mill. The project included the installation of an automated discharge machine, new crop shear, water-wall strip laminar cooling, new runout table, and a new automatic downcoiler capable of handling 30-ton coils.
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SMS Demag to Modernize Dongkuk Heavy Plate Mill
May 29, 2007 - Dongkuk Steel Mill, South Korea, has awarded a contract to SMS Demag to modernize the mill train of it No. 2 Heavy Plate Mill, including the installation of CVC plus technology on the existing mill stand and more-powerful hydraulic roll-gap adjusting systems in the finishing stand.
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Mittal to Restart Gary Plate Mill
May 24, 2007 - Mittal Steel USA announced plans to restart its idled Gary Plate Mill, a move that will support the company’s export market plans in the face of strong global demand for plate products in the construction, machinery, and shipbuilding markets.
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SMS Demag to Supply CSP Plant for Wisco
Feb. 1, 2007 - China's Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Wisco) has awarded a contract to SMS Demag, Germany, to design and construct a new twin-strand CSP® (Compact Strip Prod
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Shagang Rolls First Wide Plate on New Plate Mill
Jan. 1, 2007 - Jiangsu Shagang Group Co. Ltd., P.R. China, recently rolled the first wide plate on its greenfield heavy plate rolling mill. The first rolling for the new plate mill rnade nine passes to smoothly r
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