Tag: ArcelorMittal

The STX France shipyard in St Nazaire selected ArcelorMittal as the sole steel supplier for the hull and 20 bridges in the world’s biggest cruise ship. The steel and mining company has signed a contract to supply more than 40,000t of plates and coils from its European sites.

ArcelorMittal is looking forward to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil when the world will get a chance to see how the company's steel products have been used for the tournament. More than half of the steel used for the infrastructure works related to the World Cup — including a variety of buildings from stadiums, to train stations, to giant aquariums — has been supplied by ArcelorMittal Brazil.

ArcelorMittal will be appointing Bill Scotting as chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining, succeeding Peter Kukielski, the current chief executive since December 2008, who is leaving the company in August to take up a new opportunity.

ArcelorMittal South Africa is supplying its client, China’s Sinohydro Corporation, with reinforcing steel from its Newcastle plant for a number of hydroelectric projects across Zambia. More than 120,000 tonnes of rebar will be shipped to Zambia over the next five to seven years.

ArcelorMittal will start mothballing two blast furnaces (BF) at its Florange site in eastern France, with an outside chance that they may reopen in six years. ArcelorMittal said that the process will conclude by the end of June.

ArcelorMittal has inaugurated a new ladle furnace (LF) in the Hamburg steelworks. LF is used for refinement of the liquid steel and the new LF will allow to upgrade the steel properties.

Tyre insertion wires, for example, are ultimately no thicker than a hair and processing problems occur if there are even the slightest impurities in the steel.

ArcelorMittal and Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. are planning a joint bid to buy ThyssenKrupp AG's Steel Americas unit to ramp up automotive steel sheet production.

Earlier this month, Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal reportedly submitted a USD 1.

ArcelorMittal’s latest specialist steel products have been used in a major city renovation project in Saint Nazaire, western France.

Aluzinc®, part of ArcelorMittal’s aesthetic range of flat carbon steel sheets, has been used in the city’s Météor towers, which are home to local and regional government.

ArcelorMittal has presented a raft of new, resource-efficient steel products for the construction sector, at the world’s leading trade show for architecture, materials and systems.

ArcelorMittal Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico, has recently launched production for slabs which will be used in pipelines that transport sour gas. Strengthening its position in this niche market, the Mexican site is consolidating its position as a leading producer of world-class steel slabs.