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January 2012
Welcome to the first issue of 2012! The Jan/Feb edition of Steel Times International contains features on Raw Materials and Continuous Casting.
The Raw Materials section includes a report on the Intertech Pira 15th Annual Coke Summit, an article on combining coke and ironmaking methods to reduce emissions during production, and an overview of level sensors for raw materials and its application in Sail plants.
Continuous Casting includes articles on the 4th generation Danieli thin slab caster, and improved online water leakage detection and flow monitoring for caster rolls.
All this as well as reports from Stahl 2011, Metal-Expo 2011 and the usual round up of news and updates from around the globe.
Front cover pic courtesy of Tenova
Recent News
Zambia develops iron ore for DRI
Universal Mining and Chemical Industries (UMCIL) is investing US$50M in the second phase of the integrated iron and steel project in Zambia.
UK’s Thamesteel goes into administration
Thamesteel, the former Sheerness Steel minimill located at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey at the mouth of the Thames some 50 miles (80km) east of London, called in the Receivers on 25 January.
World crude steel output up 6.8% in 2011
World crude steel production reached 1527Mt in 2011 according to the World Steel Association which represents 85% of global producers. This is an increase of 6.8% compared to 2010 and is a record for global crude steel production.
Global steel output predicted to grow100Mt in 2012
World steel production will continue its inexorable rise in 2012 despite downbeat economic prospects, states MEPS (International) Ltd. in its latest issue of World Steel Outlook.
Recent Features
Fray International Symposium
Seldom does a conference cover such a wide range of materials subjects as the recent symposium organised in honour of Prof Derek Fray, Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge UK. Neither are so many companies and organisations prepared
to associate their name with the event by sponsorship. 184 professional bodies, academic institutes and publications – including Steel Times International, supported the event. A report by Fathi Habashi*
The sustainability footprint of steelmaking by-products
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), originally derived to assess the carbon footprint of manufactured goods, is being applied to production processes where it can be manipulated in a variety of ways each yielding a different result to claim the lowest carbon footprint for a particular process. This paper uses the example of blast furnace slag as a replacement for cement clinker and shows, depending on the method of allocation, a saving of 0.24tCO2/t of steel produced or 0.64tCO2/t of cement produced. By J P Birat*
The skies may have brightened but the gloom lingers on
A report of the 26th Steel Success Strategies, New York
Stadco – A return to output for automotive pressings
Stadco, UK’s largest independent supplier of automotive body-in-white pressings, celebrated the opening of its fifth UK production site located in a former Japanese owned pressworks –
refurbishing the factory buildings, services and two press lines in just three months following an upturn in premium car production in UK.