Tag: ArcelorMittal
Siemens to supply ArcelorMittal Gent with LiquiRob
Belgian steel producer ArcelorMittal Gent has ordered a LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens Metals Technologies to be installed on continuous slab caster CC2. It will perform a number of potentially dangerous tasks automatically, including taking samples, measuring temperatures and hydrogen levels at the distributor, as well as ladle lancing.
ArcelorMittal Ostrava to invest in new boiler
ArcelorMittal Ostrava is to build a new boiler as part of a USD 150M modernisation programme for the steelmaker’s power plant. Through its subsidiary ArcelorMittal Energy, a contract has been signed with Finland’s Valmet to install a fluidised bed boiler worth USD 74M, replacing four coal-fired boilers.
ArcelorMittal’s Himpe is new EUROFER president
Robrecht Himpe, executive vice president at ArcelorMittal Europe, addressed hundreds of delegates today at European Steel Day – as the new president of EUROFER, the European Steel Association. Supply chain partnership honoured for innovation
ArcelorMittal, Honda and Magna’s Cosma International announced that a joint nomination for the 2014 Automotive News PACE Awards was selected as the winner in the ‘Manufacturing Process and Capital Equipment’ category for the industry’s first laser-welded, hot-stamped door ring in the 2014 Acura MDX.
ArcelorMittal US plates go into New York bridge
ArcelorMittal plate mills in Burns Harbor, Coatesville and Conshohocken are to supply 160,000t of high performance steel to be used in the USD 3.9B New NY Bridge project.The 3.1mi twin-span cable-stayed bridge is the single-largest bridge construction project in New York’s history, and the largest transportation design-build project to date in the United States. ArcelorMittal stand wins award at Budma 2014
This year's Budma fairs that ended in March was among the biggest events of the construction industry in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. ArcelorMittal received the Acanthus Aureus award for their stand, which reflected their adopted marketing strategy.
ArcelorMittal invests USD 15M in Brazil
ArcelorMittal is investing around USD 15M in the production of advanced high-strength steel at its Vega do Sul flat steel rolling mill in the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil.
The plant’s existing production lines will be equipped to produce Usibor, a press-hardened boron steel with an aluminium-silicon coating used mainly in the automotive industry.
Evrim, ArcelorMittal sign exploration agreement
Evrim Resources signed an agreement with ArcelorMittal Servicios Minerometalurgicos de Occidente (ArcelorMittal), a wholly owned subsidiary of ArcelorMittal S.A., to explore for iron ore deposits in Mexico. ArcelorMittal launches organic coated steel
ArcelorMittal launched a new zinc-aluminium-magnesium alloy, Optigal, developed for better-performing and more sustainable organic coated steels. Optigal is suited for all roofing and cladding panels and profiles, as well as being the ideal substrate for pre-painted steel.
Floating luxury resort to use ArcelorMittal steel
Around 1,200t of steel plates produced in ArcelorMittal’s Gijon facilities in Spain are being used in a unique project: a floating luxury holiday resort that will soon be travelling along the coast of Lebanon.