Tag: ArcelorMittal

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) will take measures to realize the full capabilities of AM/NS Calvert, a US-based 50/50 joint venture between NSSMC and ArcelorMittal (AM), to manufacture ultra high tensile strength cold-rolled and coated steel sheets with high formability by the end of 2016.

ArcelorMittal and the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up an automotive steel manufacturing facility under a Joint Venture (JV) arrangement in India. The MoU was signed in London by Lakshmi Mittal, chairperson and CEO of ArcelorMittal, and C S Verma, chairperson of SAIL.

ArcelorMittal will supply some 15,000t of clad plate to aid one of the largest and toughest oil projects of the last 30 years.

ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products supplied more than 20,000t of rebars for the construction of seven new underground stations as part of the expansion of Warsaw underground.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has supplied more than 700 tons of 8mm–28mm rebar for the construction of a new, flagship Volkswagen car showroom, Volkswagen Center Kryvyi Rih, which is scheduled to open in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in February 2015. Valeriy Hresko, Director of Volkswagen Center Kryvyi Rih said: “In 2013 we began the construction of the first Volkswagen dealer centre in Kryvyi Rih and finished the works at the end of 2014.

ArcelorMittal has been named Liberia’s company of the year by Global News Network (GNN) Liberia in its 'Who’s Who 2014' ranking. The company was more specifically recognised for 'drastically [impacting] the lives of thousands of Liberians through employment and its endless provision of scholarships'. In a statement, GNN Liberia highlighted how the company’s significant investment in Liberia’s mining and transport infrastructure is helping the country to rebuild its economy after years of civil war.

The five-year partnership agreement between ArcelorMittal and Technip, the largest European contract for ArcelorMittal’s wire business, has been extended by two years.

ArcelorMittal has been ranked fourteenth on the 2014 global Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders list. This comprehensive study recognises companies with best-in-class talent management practices around the world.

Industeel, a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal specialising in the production of ingots and high value-added steel plates, is to supply 4,000t of steel to AREVA for the building of six steam generators at the Koeberg nuclear power station in South Africa.   AREVA won a EUR 300M contract in September to replace the generators at the nuclear power station close to Cape Town, operated by Eskom, South Africa’s public electricity company. Photo courtesy of ArcelorMittal   Industeel is a long-time partner of AREVA and for several years has been supplying it with steel for building steam generators and the forged components used in nuclear power stations.

ArcelorMittal will be creating 700 new jobs at its French sites in 2014. ArcelorMittal is the largest steel company in France, with a workforce of nearly 20,000 over some 50 industrial and distribution sites.