ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions Italia (AMDSI) and CLN Group today announce the formation of ArcelorMittal CLN Distribuzione Italia, a joint venture between the two companies, that brings together two of Italy’s leading steel distribution companies.
In medium and large-scale casting, the even and rapid drying of refractory coatings is of tremendous importance – on the one hand, for productivity reasons and, on the other, for reasons of process safety.
EVRAZ started production at the first longwall face (#3-40) of the Eastern Block at the Alardinskaya mine, Yuzhkuzbassugol. The total investments into the project exceed RUB 1 bln.
Three consolidated subsidiaries of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC), namely Nippon Steel & Sumikin Technology Corporation, Ltd. (NSST; Representative Director and President: Yoshiaki Nakamura), Nippon Steel & Sumikin Kansai Industries, Ltd. (NSKI; Representative Director and President: Akira Kubo), and Kantoc Roll, Ltd. (Kantoc; President and Representative Director: Kazuya Aoyagi) are scheduled to integrate and reorganize their railway engineering businesses into a new company and establish a manufacturing process company for the Osaka Steel Works on April 1, 2015.
ArcelorMittal Brazil has supplied some 59,000 tonnes of steel for the construction of Açú Port in the country’s south-eastern state of Rio de Janeiro.
Yenakiieve Steel started producing iron with one blast furnace, with another being blown in. The first batches of cast billets were produced on 20 March.
Tata Steel has almost halved energy costs at its steel facility in Düsseldorf after building an innovative new power plant. The combined and heat power (CHP) plant will reduce the site’s annual energy costs by about €1 million (£750,000) and cut emissions of CO2 by almost 50 percent. The power station is the company’s first of its type and has been built on the premises of Hille & Müller, part of Tata Steel’s plating business.
With its large local manufacturing base, the company introduced the innovative fastest escalator in Brazil and provided mobility solutions for the country's major airports as well as to four of the 2014 World Cup stadiums. ThyssenKrupp was given the award for mobility equipment provided for Sao Paulo’s metro and rail stations.
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (Representative Director & President: Kosei Shindo; hereinafter “NSSMC”) hereby announces that it has entered into an agreement with Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (Representative Director & CEO: Takashi Tsukioka; hereinafter “IDEMITSU”) to purchase a 10% interest in the Boggabri Coal Joint Venture in New South Wales, Australia, in which IDEMITSU participates through its Australian subsidiary (hereinafter “the JV”).
