Company News

In this section you can find updates from suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators and stockists of stainless steel material. This company news section is updated regularly with the latest company news from within the global stainless steel world community. If you wish to include your news release on our website and email newsletter, please feel free to contact the editor.

Primetals to modernize continuous billet caster

Primetals Technologies has recently received an order from Acciaierie Valbruna S.p.a., Italian steel producer to modernize the three-strand continuous billet caster at its Bolzano site.

Ben Stansel joins United Performance

United Performance Metals, suppliers of stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, nickel, cobalt, aluminium and titanium, has recently declared that Ben Stansel has joined the company as Business Analyst.

Harsco adds contract extension for steel mill

Harsco Corporation, a diversified industrial company providing a range of onsite services and engineered products to the global steel, energy and railway sectors, has recently declared the five-year contract extension of its steel mill services in Belgium at the Châtelet site of Aperam, a specialty steel producer with manufacturing operations in Europe and Brazil.

B&W awarded USD 80M contract

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., specialist in energy and environmental technologies and services for the power and industrial markets has recently announced that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), has been awarded a contract for more than USD 80M to design and manufacture a highly efficient, supercritical boiler and other components for the Masinloc Thermal Power Plant expansion project in Zambales Province, Philippines.

Coordination council meeting at Magnitogorsk

The coordination council of OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), steel producers and a leading Russian metals company, and PAO TMK (TMK) had recently held a meeting in Magnitogorsk.

Renishaw doubles the length of RTLA scale

Renishaw, a British engineering company based in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, has recently doubled the maximum length of its RTLA linear stainless steel ribbon scale.

Quintus to supply two more HIPs

Quintus Technologies will soon be supplying two additional Hot Isostatic Presses (HIPs) to the China’s Anhui Yingliu Group.

Russia, Kazakhstan to dominate FSU projects

GlobalData, a research and consulting firm, has recently reported that Russia is responsible for 25 key crude and natural gas projects, which are expected to commence operations by 2025, dominating the Former Soviet Union’s (FSU) oil and gas production.

AREVA upgrades reactor coolant pumps

AREVA NP has recently completed reactor coolant pump refurbishments at Dominion’s Surry Power Station in south-eastern Virginia.

NLMK to upgrade its BF operations in 2018

NLMK Group, an international steel company with assets in Russia, the USA and the EU, recently signed an agreement with Paul Wurth (Luxembourg) for engineering and the supply of equipment for the reconstruction of blast furnace No.