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Look Closely
It’s not just surface inspection: a wave of new strip-inspection systems is finding their way to rolling mills and process lines.

Novelis to Expand Aluminum Rolling in Brazil
$30 million to improve operations, add “Fusion” capacity

Severstal Seeks to Add Esmark to its Collection
USW's support could derail Essar Steel's purchase agreement

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.

New Algorithms Pace Strip-Quality Control
Algorithms—the step-by-step lists of directions that need to be followed to solve a problem—have become essential to producing better steel products. Two recent developments show how algorithms aid the effort to roll high-grade hot strip, and to apply coatings to that strip.

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

New Partnership Optimizes Flat Rolling for Aluminum
The aluminum-industry consulting group Innoval Technology Ltd. (www.innovaltec.com) has linked with two Danieli divisions — Danieli...

VA Stahl Extends Optimization Program to WB Furnace
For voestalpine Stahl in Linz, Austria, the existing AIS Steel Planner program has been extended to encompass a new new reheat furnace. The...

Europe’s Newest Hot Mill Starts for ArcelorMittal
A new hot-strip mill supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies (www.siemensvai.com) to ArcelorMittal at its flat-rolling operation in Cracow, ...

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.

Contract News
o Pittsburgh-based Siemens VAI, a unit of Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services, will design and install a wide temper mill for Nucor Steel...

Beta Steel's Rebuilt HSM Running Hot, Again
Beta Steel Corp., the flat-rolling mini-mill in Portage, IN, resumed hot-rolling on its revamped hot mill in late December, and the Danieli Wean...

SeverCorr Starts Pickling Line; CRM Up Next
The first production process is installed and running at SeverCorr L.L.C., the $880-million greenfield mini-mill in Columbus, IN. The 1.5 million...

Emergency On-Site Repair, Condition Monitoring Program …
keep Gallatin Steel up and running

Greer Steel Updates Mill Gauge and Shape Control
Reversing mill’s Cpk performance seen increasing 25%

Siemens Drive Conversion Powers Revamped Hot-Strip Mill
Last spring the first coil was rolled successfully on a hot-strip mill at Jindal South West Steel, in Torangallu, India, following a...

Starts & Restarts: Post-Combustion System Operating …
… New stainless CRM, new billet caster, and more

Wheeling-Pitt Hot Mill Running Smoothly with New Steel Rolls
Timken collaboration improves production, quality and saves money

Cold Rolling: So Many Choices to Make
And all of them are leading in one direction. Mill designers select the best available hardware and software solutions to develop optimal cold-rolling operations.

Desert Discovery
The importance of Ezz Flat Steel is not its unlikely site, but the series of technological breakthroughs designed into the flat-rolling mini-mill.
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