Top slab quality achieved right from the very beginning, process and equipment reliability, and an impressive ramp-up distinguished the startup of CC8 caster at voestalpine Stahl in Linz, Austria.
ALUMINIUM 2018, the leading trade show for the aluminum industry took place in Düsseldorf from 9 to 11 October. In addition to discussing the big topics of the future at the SMS group booth, representatives of SMS group’s Technical Service also presented its service concept for extrusion press operators.
The new semi-continuous billet mill supplied by SMS group to Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation in the Ha Tinh province, Vietnam, has commenced full commercial production.
The ArcelorMittal production plants in Belgium are part of the ArcelorMittal Group, which manufactures high-grade steel products for a wide range of industries.
Hamburg-based Aurubis AG is to take delivery of three new converters, which will be supplied by SMS group and used to produce blister copper, an important stage in the copper production process.
The four-year agreement is for the maintenance and renewal of the Belgian rail network and will see British Steel supply between 35,000 and 40,000 tonnes of rail a year – more than 3,000km of rail over the duration of the contract. Deliveries are scheduled to start in January 2019.
Chinese steel producer Shandong Iron & Steel Rizhao has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate for the new high-capacity hot strip only seven months after rolling the first coil.
SSAB is to invest a total of around SEK 1 billion in SSAB Americas’ steel mill in Mobile, Alabama to increase production capacity for quenched and tempered (Q&T) steels and to reduce costs.
The EU steel market remained on a relatively fast growth track in the second quarter, supported by healthy economic fundamentals and the good operating performance of steel-using sectors. Nonetheless, imports continued to grow much faster than the domestic deliveries of EU mills. Steel demand growth levelling out in the EU and in other regions over the coming quarters – against the backdrop of persisting excess capacities in the global steel sector and proliferation of distortionary steel trade actions worldwide – is reason for concern.
