Steel Times International News
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Kobe Steel and partners continue investment in KSP joint venture
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel, along with the shareholders of Kobe Special Steel Wire Products Company (KSP), has agreed to increase the production capacity of their Chinese joint venture that processes special steel wire rods into steel wires.
18 December 2018 -
NLMK embarks upon RUB34 billion blast furnace upgrade
NLMK Group, the largest steelmaker in Russia with a production capacity exceeding 17Mt/yr, has embarked upon a RUB34 billion, large-scale reconstruction of blast furnace No. 6 (BF-6) at its Lipetsk site.The project will bring about an 8% increase in BF capacityto 3.4Mt/yr of pig iron, ‘significantly improve’ BF-6’s environmental performance and extend its inter-repair cycle by 50% to 25 years.
18 December 2018 -
ArcelorMittal calls for 'green border adjustment'
ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, has called upon Europe to introduce a green border adjustment whereby steel imported into Europe has the same standards applied on C02 as European-produced steel produced under the Emissions Trading System (ETS).
17 December 2018 -
Rail contracts galore for British Steel
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), the manager of Italy’s railway infrastructure, has awarded British Steel two multi-million-pound contracts to supply it 86kt of rail.
13 December 2018 -
Liberty Primary Steel to 'transform' it's Whyalla steelworks in South Australia
Liberty Primary Steel – part of Sanjeev Gupta’s British-owned GFG Alliance – has announced what it describes as 'significant steps towards the transformation of its iconic Whyalla steelworks' in South Australia.
13 December 2018 -
UK Steel welcomes funding for foundation industries
The UK Government's energy and clean growth minister, Claire Perry, today announced £66 million of new funding for UK foundation industries through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
13 December 2018
