India's special steel producer, Chandan Steel, postpones the launch of new steelmaking facilities of total 50,000tpy capacity from Q3 to Q4 2008. The company's representative informs that installation has not been completed yet, as supply of the equipment was ...

In early September, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is planning to start construction of a 180,000tpy meltshop at the Salem Steel Plant (SSP), specializing in production of flats from stainless and carbon steels ...

Slovenia's Acroni, subsidiary of SIJ Group, plans to expand its production of stainless steel from 100,000tpy to 300,000tpy in Q2 2010. Acroni will replace a ...

Indian Jindal Stainless has made the ultimate decision to abandon the project of constructing a stainless slab facility in Russia, being unable to reach agreement with ...

Slovenia's producer of long products of special steel grades, Store Steel, in August started installation of the second 160,000tpy bar rolling mill, as part of ...

South Korean producer of long products of special steel grades, SeAH Besteel, plans to expand its steelmaking capacity from 2mtpy to ...

On August 13, China's Valin Steel Group and ArcelorMittal signed an agreement to set up Valin ArcelorMittal Electrical Steel joint venture with 600,000tpy capacity producing CR products of electrical ...

Outokumpu Armetal Stainless Pipe (Saudi Arabia) has started this month to increase capacity of seamless pipes production from 2,000tpy to ...

Indian producer of carbon and stainless steel Adhunik Metaliks Ltd will complete the project aimed at expansion of its steelmaking (from 250,000tpy to 450,000tpy) and rolling capacity (from 220,000tpy to ...

Oskol Electric Steel Works (OEMK) has completed hot trial at its third vacuum degasser. At present, the company is adjusting all parts of the equipment and plans to put the unit in operation in ...

In May, Russian plants produced the same amount of stainless flat products as in April, but in the five months of 2008 the production increased ...

In July, prices for sheets of austenitic steel grades started moving down in the US secondary market for stainless flat products. Thus, CR sheets of 304 and 316 series have decreased in price by ...

In 2009, Russian NLMK’s affiliate Viz-Stal plans to put into operation a new reverse cold-rolling mill to produce sheets of transformer steel. The unit capacity will be some ...

A major Chinese producer of stainless sheet Shanxi Taigang Stainless has set July quotations for its material. The prices for CR stainless sheet of 304 and 321 series have ...

Taiwanese Yieh Hsing Enterprise Co Ltd. has placed an order with Italian Danieli for supply of an electric meltshop capable of producing 600,000t of 140mm and 150mm square billet of stainless steel per year...