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ArcelorMittal to Buy Bayou Steel for $475 Million
Expands long-products portfolio, adds scrap management assets

Algoma Adopts Scrap-Optimization, -Loading Programs
“ … significant cost savings in their raw-material purchases and production costs.”

Esmark Agrees to Essar Steel Merger
Takeover valued at $670 million; includes $110-million loan

Nucor to Expand Tuscaloosa Melt Shop
Second ladle furnace ordered from SMS

Better Slabs, Faster … Thanks to Coordinated Control
Continuous slab casters are extraordinarily complex machines that rely on distinct functions — properly controlled and coordinated — to transform liquid metal into high-quality flat products.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Closing Cold-Rolling, Galvanizing Lines
60-day notice for plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio

Complete Replacement of Converter and Offgas-Treatment System
In just 75 days, Siemens Metals Technologies (www.siemens.com/metals) replaced and started up a BOF converter and the offgas-treatment system ...

Perfect Electric Melting
Even with the most advanced equipment and controls, every electric furnace operates according to variable conditions and restrictions. So, the effort to achieve optimal EAF productivity continues.

CMC Adopts Automated Scrap-Charging/Slagging
CMC Steel South Carolina has begun operating More Srl’s (www.more-oxy.com) MoTank system, installed recently for its 82-ton electric...

Basic Oxygen Furnaces are Works in Progress
As the global industry develops new markets, modernization helps basic oxygen steelmaking retain its position as the core of steelmaking. It...

PTI Files Post-Combustion Projects Across Asia
Process Technology Intl. reports its completed installing and starting up five of its JetBOx combustion system for electric furnaces, from one ...

Betting Big on Thick Slabs
For more than two years, steel producers around the world have been building or improving their slab casters — thick slab casters. To meet their current and anticipated requirements, these contract include a new series of quality and process control technologies for casting slabs.

New Electric Arc Furnaces Sparking Interest
SeverCorr L.L.C. leads the list of EAF melting operations coming on stream, but it's far from being the only one drawing attention.

Tokyo Steel Slab Caster is a First for Japan
Siemens Metals Technologies (www.industry.siemens.com/metals-mining) commissioned a continuous slab caster for Tokyo Steel at its Kyushu Works...

New Melt Shop, Caster Online for Celsa in U.K.
For Celsa Steel (U.K.) Ltd., a part of Spain's Celsa Group, at Cardiff , Wales , SMS Demag (www.sms-demag.com) successfully commissioned a...

The New Boom in Billet and Bloom Casting
The global steel industry is crackling with capital-improvements projects centered on billet and bloom casters, and while North American activity is a little more discrete, several efforts are noteworthy.

Everything old is new again … CMC Plans Steel "Micro" Mill
It's been at least a decade since the term "mini-mill" carried any of its original meaning, but just like every good idea the notion of a...

One Week Sees Three Casters, Five Strands Started by Danieli
In the space of seven days, three slab casters (five strands in total) were started by the machines' designer/builder, Danieli & C. Spa...

“New” WCI Steel Sees BOF as Key to Success
The relaunched integrated steelmaker is off to a profitable fresh start, and is investing in its melting operation to improve operating efficiencies.

Charter Steel’s New Melt Shop Getting Started in Cleveland
Also, bar/section stacker back in action at Nucor
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