Steel Times International News
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Al Rajhi Steel starts 1Mt/y rebar mill
Al Rajhi Steel in the UAE is in the process of commissioning a merchant bar and rebar mill with a total capacity of 1Mt/y.
20 May 2012 -
Nickel Institute celebrates stainless centenary in Beijing
As part of the Centenary of Stainless Steel celebrations, the Nickel Institute (NiDi) hosted an event in Beijing ‘Nickel and Stainless Steel – Towards the Next 100 Years’. This event showed representatives from the metals industries as well as policymakers and researchers how nickel and the Nickel Institute are key partners in the success of stainless steel.
20 May 2012 -
Lowering the price of Titanium
The existing production method for titanium, the Kroll process, is energy inefficient, potentially hazardous, labour intensive and therefore expensive.
20 May 2012 -
Latin American Steel - A retrospective in 101 essays
'Latin American Steel: A retrospective in 101 essays' is a collection of reprints of pages from Steel Times International of articles authored by Dr Germano Mendes De Paula, Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU), Brazil.
18 May 2012 -
Demand for steel to boost iron ore production
Growing demand looks to bring about an evolution in the US iron industry, despite North America having historically been a modest iron ore producing and consuming region, according to a new report by mining analysts GBI Research.
16 May 2012 -
Indian Industry Environmental Best Practices Award
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has conferred its Environmental Best Practices Award for 2012 on BILT Graphic Paper Products Ltd (BGPPL) for the ‘most innovative environmental project.’ The award was presented for Carbon sequestering at BGPPL’s unit at Ballarpur which has installed a unit to precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) used as a filler in the paper industry.
16 May 2012
