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TMK Begin Shipping Longitudinally Welded Pipes for Baltic Pipeline System

TMK, one of the world's leading manufacturers of steel pipes for the oil and gas sector, announces today that it began shipments of longitudinal welded large-diameter pipe to Transneft for the construction of the sec...

11 Dec 2009

Europe is Recycling 70 Per Cent of Its Steel Packaging

The latest figures from APEAL (the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging) show that 70% of steel packaging is recycled in Europe. This represents over 2.5 million tonnes of food and drinks cans and other steel containers being recycled in 2008, saving 3.9 million tonnes of CO2. According to the latest available data, this places recycling rates for steel above those of other packaging materials such as plastic, beverage cartons and glass (29% , 33% and 62% respectively).

10 Dec 2009

NLMK Establish New Subsidiary to Enhance Management of Long Products Buisiness

NLMK has established a new subsidiary, LLC NLMK-Long Products, to enhance the management of its long products business. The newly established company will function as the managing company for NLMK's steel compani...

9 Dec 2009

Carpenter Technology Release Low Cost Alternative to Cobalt Containing Steel Alloys

Carpenter Technology Corporation has announced the availability of Carpenter PremoMet alloy for consideration as a lower-cost alternative to many cobalt-containing steel alloys. With its superior strength, toughness and ...

7 Dec 2009

Corus to Mothball Facilities Following Broken Contract

An international consortium's breaking of a binding contract has led Corus to partially implement the proposal announced in May 2009 of mothballing some of the facilities belonging to the Teesside Cast Products (TCP)...

7 Dec 2009

Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton Firm Up Details of Western Australian Iron Ore Joint Venture

On 5 June 2009, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton signed an agreement of core principles to establish a production joint venture covering the entirety of both companies' Western Australian iron ore assets. The companies hav...

From BHP 6 Dec 2009

ThyssenKrupp Establishes Metal Services Business

Effective October 15, 2009, the ThyssenKrupp Group has, within the Materials Services business area, reorganized and merged under ThyssenKrupp MetalServ GmbH its central domestic materials trading business activities. Th...

3 Dec 2009

TMK Begins Shipments of Large Diameter Pipe to Pochinki-Gryazovets Pipeline

TMK, one of the world's leading producers of pipes for the oil and gas industry, announces today that it began shipments of large-diameter pipe to Gazprom for the construction of the Pochinki-Gryazovets pipeline. ...

1 Dec 2009

Tata Steel the First to Use New Blast Furnace Charging System from Siemens

Since end of September 2009, the re-built blast furnace ‘C’ at Tata Steel Ltd´s Jamshedpur works India has been operating with Siemens new Simetal Gimbal Top charging systems. Tata Steel became the world´s first steelmaker to utilize this new charging system on a blast furnace.

From Primetals Technologies Limited 30 Nov 2009

Hisarna Technology Could Reduce CO2 Emissions from Blast Furnace Steelmaking by More than 50 Per Cent

Called "Hisarna", the technology has the potential to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the blast furnace steelmaking route by more than 50%. The €20 million project is one of the initiatives that ...

30 Nov 2009

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