Steel Times International News
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CMC scores a US first on hot-rolled, spooled rebar
US steelmaker Commercial Metals Company (CMC) has announced that it will soon become the first and only producer of hot-rolled, spooled rebar in the United States.
10 January 2017 -
ThyssenKrupp labour chief angered by Port Talbot concessions
That ThyssenKrupp should 'pick up the tab' for concessions being offered to British trade unions by Tata Steel, has angered the German steelmaker's labour chief, Wilhelm Segerath, according to a report by Reuters.
10 January 2017 -
Oxelösund restart pushed back until the beginning of February
During the planned maintenance outage at SSAB Special Steels in Oxelösund at the beginning of December last year, ABB replaced the control system for the power supply of the rolling mill. During the planned restart, a transformer broke down, as earlier communicated. After repair, during the restart of the powertrain of the rolling mill, there was another breakdown of one out of six similar transformers.
10 January 2017 -
ITC makes affirmative injury determinations in anti-dumping investigations on CTL plate
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has made affirmative final determinations in the anti-dumping (AD) investigations on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length (CTL) plate from Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey.
09 January 2017 -
World crude steel production for November 2016 – up 5% on last year's figure
World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 132.4Mt in November 2016, up 5% on November 2015.
04 January 2017 -
Hoa Phat Steel raises productivity
EWR/K-Welding technology from the Italian steel production technology company Danieli has improved billet-rolling performance at Hoa Phat’s Hai Duong mill in Vietnam.
03 January 2017