Company News

Heavy Metal & Tubes Ltd. (HMTL) has recently announced the commissioning of its manufacturing facility, Unit III, for hot finish seamless tubes/pipes in carbon steel and alloy steel.Unit III has an annual capacity of approximately 75,000MTPA, has already started commercial production, and has executed orders from Indian refineries and export jobs.

Severstal-Gonvarri-Kaluga, a joint venture between OAO Severstal and Gonvarri, and part of OAO Severstal’s Russian Steel division, began producing blanks for interior and exterior parts of the Volkswagen Jetta. This is the second model of Volkswagen to use parts manufactured at Severstal-Gonvarri-Kaluga and then stamped at Gestamp-Severstal-Kaluga, Severstal’s joint venture with Gestamp.

Global engineering contractor Motherwell Bridge has been acquired by Cape, the international provider of critical support services to the energy and mineral resources sectors.

Welding and subsea fabrication specialist Serimax strengthened its presence in Norway with the appointment of Jan Langeland as Country Manager.

Harsco Corporation appointed Richard E. Lundgren, Jr. as Group President of its Harsco Metals & Minerals business effective 7 April 2014.

Baker Hughes, the oilfield services company, and TMK, the Russian producers of pipes for the oil and gas industry, plan to jointly develop integrated well completion solutions.  Targeted at both onshore and offshore fields, the solutions will provide turnkey well completions based on the technical and manufacturing capabilities of both companies.

The Timken Company entered into an agreement with United Wagon Company (UWC), a company building, leasing, engineering and servicing freight cars in Russia, to establish a joint venture (JV) to manufacture Timken AP-2 rail bearings in Russia.

Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (MISI) entered into an agreement with Dawood Engineering – a local manufacturer of automotive parts and components in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan – to jointly establish a new company in Bin Qasim Industrial Park outside of Karachi City in Sindh Province, Pakistan.

EOS, the industrial Additive Manufacturing solutions company, expanded its metal materials portfolio with the introduction of EOS Titanium Ti64ELI and EOS StainlessSteel 316L.

Clemens Iller will take over as the CEO of Swiss special steel company SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH. He will lead the company together with CFO Hans-Jürgen Wiecha, who has been acting as CEO ad interim from December 2013.