Vallourec tubes for Brazilian football stadiums
Structural seamless steel tubes from Vallourec’s Brazilian mill in Belo Horizonte equipped nine stadiums – including five of the twelve stadiums used to host official matches during the FIFA World Cup, and four others used as training centres during the tournament.
VAMA opens automotive steel plant in China
Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel (VAMA) officially inaugurated its new advanced automotive steel plant in China, beginning a new era of automotive manufacturing in the country.
VAMA, the joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Hunan Iron & Steel Co.
MMFX appoints new Sales and Marketing VP
MMFX Steel Corporation of America appointed Kevin McKown as the new vice president of sales and marketing. McKown will be responsible for the growth of acceptance, use and marketing of MMFX products throughout North America. Bilfinger tests Wikinger wind farm foundations
Engineering and services group Bilfinger will test steel foundations for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project in the Baltic Sea on behalf of Spanish energy supplier Iberdrola. Beginning in 2016, 70 wind turbines would be installed in water depths of up to 42m north-east of the German island of Rügen.
McKinsey to assess CherMK’s production efficiency
The Cherepovets Steel Mill (CherMK), the integrated steel producer and part of the Russian Steel division of OAO Severstal, launched a project in conjunction with McKinsey, the global consultancy, to improve efficiency of basic oxygen steel production. China expands cold-heading wire business capacity
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) established Nippon Steel Bar & CH Wire (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. Catcher FDP gets UK Govt. approval
Premier Oil received approval for its Catcher area Field Development Plan (FDP) from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The Premier-operated Catcher area, located in the UK Central North Sea, is expected to produce 96 million barrels of oil equivalent with a peak production rate of around 50,000 barrels of oil per day.
BASF to build new PAG plant in Ludwigshafen
BASF announced the construction of a new plant for polyalkylene glycol (PAG)-based lubricants at its Ludwigshafen site. The manufacturing facility will start operations by the beginning of 2016 and produce PAG lubricant base stocks and formulated blends.
Saarstahl continues rolling mill modernisation
Saarstahl is continuing its modernisation programme with further investments in the rolling mills in Völklingen and Burbach following previous major investment projects such as building the new secondary metallurgy in the steelmaking plant.
U.S. Steel VP & Controller Zovko to retire
United States Steel Corporation Executive Vice President and CFO David B. Burritt announced that Vice President and Controller Gregory A.