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The Board of Directors of Acerinox has approved the appointments of Fernando Gutiérrez as Strategy and Raw Materials Director; Oswald Wolfe as Director of Institutional Relations, Sustainability and Communication and Mark Davis as CEO of Bahru Stainless Sdn Bhd.

VDM Metals opened a new bright annealing plant at the Werdohl site. With this globally unique vertical bright annealing plant with double muffle system, VDM Metals continues its tradition of innovation.

Volkswagen AG has tasked Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPS Europe) with the construction of a gas-and-steam power plant in Wolfsburg, in order to modernize its cogeneration plant "Heizkraftwerk Wolfsburg-West".

Automation, networking, and robotics are rapidly gaining ground in metalworking and in storage and sawing technology. Storage systems and sawing machines are increasingly being integrated into a uniformly controlled material flow in which all processes between incoming and outgoing goods are fully automated from the storage of the long goods raw material to the dispatch of the palletized finished parts.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) contract from ANWIL, related to the implementation of a new granulation unit to produce various types of fertilizers.

The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) presented NAS with the 2019 Gold Sustainability Award at the May 2019 Meeting in Chicago, IL.

This is to announce that (i) the nomination of the members of the board of directors and part of the audit & supervisory board members were approved at the 95th Annual Shareholders Meeting held recently, and (ii) the role of the members of the board of directors and the audit & supervisory board members as set below was subsequently determined respectively at the meetings of the board of directors and the audit & supervisory board members.

Outokumpu has recently signed a secured EUR 400 M term loan. The margin of the loan is linked to the total recordable incident frequency rate and carbon dioxide emission per ton of stainless steel produced, both in relation to set targets.

Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced recently that it continues to expand its long-term microturbine rental business with an additional 1.6 MWs on top of the initial 3.6 MWs deployed last fall with one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers.

BASF and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., Ltd. (Lutianhua) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a pilot production plant that will significantly reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency in producing dimethyl ether (DME) from syngas compared to the traditional process.