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October 2011

October 2011

The October 2011 issue of STI contains features on Structural Steels, Special and Stainless Steels, and Continuous Casting. The Structural Steels feature includes an article from the Target Zero project which aims to determine the most cost effective combinations of materials for zero carbon buildings.

The Aspex Corporation provides a report on Applying statistical theory to bearing steel failure modes in the Special Steel section, while the Continuous Casting section includes a report from the 7th European Continuous Casting Conference held in Dusseldorf, concurrent with the Metec show.

All this plus the usual mix of news and updates from around the globe.

Front cover pic courtesy of Tenova.

News

News – Japanese Fastmet recycling plant opens 4
Statistics & Events – August global crude steel output up 9.8% 8
USA Update – Steel industry could provide the ignition to an economic recovery 10
Latin America Update – Latin America de-industrialisation and the Chinese threat 12
Japan Update – Restructuring at home, investment abroad 16

Structural steels

Target Zero: – Reducing the carbon footprint of buildings 17
Automation and control at the Merchant product mill at Durgapur Steel Plant 20

Special and stainless steels

Dry mechanical vacuum pumps in use for VOD and VD-OB processes 23
Applying statistical theory to bearing steel failure modes 29
Vasa Museum replacing 5000 wrought iron bolts 32

Continuous casting

A report on the 7th European Continuous Casting Conference 33
The influence of ceramic sprayed caster rolls on the internal quality of slab 37

Others

Energy saving and environmental protection: Tenova’s latest technologies 41
Automatic head-end cutting at Rourke HSM 45
History: Pioneers of the Steel Industry: Part 5: Open Hearth & Bessemer 48

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