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Nucor Orders Bar Mill Redesign from SMS
At Darlington, uniform rolling size for intermediate and finishing segments

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

Nucor Finalizes European Joint Venture with Duferco
Operations will produce, distribute 900,000 mtpy of steel beams

The Long Story of European Expansion
From east to west and north to south, European bar and rod producers are investing in new or revamped rolling lines. For the rolling mill ...

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...

Deacero's Bar/Wire Rod Expansion Lifts Celaya Mill Up to 2.8 MTPY
Mexico's largest mini-mill group, Deacero, has started up the greenfield expansion of its Celaya plant, a project designed and executed by...

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...

Nucor Picks Danieli to Revamp Memphis Mini-Mill
The task of designing and installing the equipment for Nucor Steel's revitalization of its Memphis property as a mini-mill for special bar quality...

Contracts in the News: Gerdau AmeriSteel, CMC Steel, Nucor …
Cascade Steel, Atlas Tube, and more

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

Bar Mills Look for Speed and Quality
There are at least two ways to improve bar rolling, make it faster or make it "better." The differences in the two approaches are on display at two current projects.

Eyeing Red-Hot Long Products for Surface Defects
Several bar and rod producers are using HotEye RSB to scan long products for surface defects, while the material is at processing temperatures. The images of defects can be seen as clearly as if the subject were at room temperature.

Growing Through a Phase
MacSteel isn’t just another mini-mill with expansion plans. The specialty bar producer has started its latest project — Phase 9 of a capital investment program that began in the 1990s — that will result in a series of equipment and process improvements at the Monroe, MI, plant.

Barmakers Investing Again in Rolling and Finishing
After a lengthy hiatus, barmakers are again spending money on equipment and systems to improve their rolling and finishing operations.

Building Better Bar Mills
Several North American steelmakers have restarted or revamped bar rolling operations in recent months. Here’s a look at the developments at Deacero, Steel Dynamics, Nucor, Republic, and International Steel Group.

Charter Steel Retrofits Tensile Tester for Better Reliability
Mini-mill's varied product menu puts a high demand on the testing equipment, both in service time and in function.