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ArcelorMittal Plans to Double Plant’s Capacity to 10 Million Mtpy
Kazakhstan project may take nine years to complete

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.

Olympic Steel to Build New Plant in SC
Southeast expansion to be completed by year’s end

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.

Starts & Restarts
World’s Largest Pipe-Forming Press Starts Production Siempelkamp (www.siempelkamp.com) supplied the world’s largest press for the...

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

Developing a Coating Complex
With a new priority on high-volume operations, plant builders are rolling out high-tech designs that will galvanize a wide range of steel products. Even with all the design wizardry, product quality shines through.

SeverCorr Begins Operations in Final Production Area
SeverCorr’s advanced coating line began operations in December 2007, marking the final portion of construction to be completed at the...

Faster Pickling Makes a Virtue of Necessity
Continuous HCl pickling operations are a staple of newer mills and strip processing complexes, making higher throughput the design ideal.

Processor Commissions High-Production Slitter
MISA Metals, a West Chester, OH, strip processor, commissioned a Herr-Voss Stamco (www.gen-world.com) precision slitting line to process...

Testing Products for Flatness and Other Parameters
Flatness is a critical property that affects customers’ ability to use material efficiently. Here’s how two steelmakers are addressing the challenge of producing truly flat products.

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...

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...

New Precision Blanking Line for H&D Steel Service
Red Bud Industries (www.redbudindustries.com) has completed the installation of a 14-gauge precision blanking line at H&D Steel Service Inc....

Oxy-fuel Technology Helps ThyssenKrupp Increase Coating Capacity 30%
At ThyssenKrupp Steel's Finnentrop Works in Germany, Linde AG's (www.linde.com) Rebox oxy-fuel technology was installed in the process section...

Surface Inspection Software Application Adds Interpretive Capabilities
Parsytec, one of the metalproducing industry's most successful developers and suppliers of surface-inspection technology, is introducing a new...

Continuous Lines Pace Pickling Progress
During 2006, steelmakers demonstrated a particular preference in their choices for new strip pickling capacity — lines that are linked to tandem cold mills for continuous operation.

New Stainless Annealing Line Starts at Mexinox
A new bright annealing line for stainless steel has been inaugurated at TK-Mexinox, the ThyssenKrupp stainless steel plant in San Luis Potos ,...

New Stainless Annealing Line Starts at Mexinox
A new bright annealing line for stainless steel has been inaugurated at TK-Mexinox, the ThyssenKrupp stainless steel plant in San Luis Potosì...

Starts & Restarts: Stretch-leveling at Olympic Metals
Also, rails rolling again at voestalpine
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