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U.S. Steel Restarted Alabama Production Line

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United States Steel has announced plans to restart Alabama's new smelting furnace, with steel production expected to increase by 1.6 million tons by 2020. With import tariffs pushing up steel prices, U.S. steel mills, such as Nucor and Steel Dynamics, have planned to build or restart steelmaking plants. It is estimated that U.S. steel-making capacity will increase by more than 10 million tons in the next three years. Fairfield, near Birmingham, Alabama, is expected to join production by the end of 2020. U.S. Steel said it plans to spend about $215 million to upgrade its equipment and employ 150 more full-time employees. U.S. Steel closed its 100-year Feldfield blast furnace in 2015, when it planned to build an electric arc furnace to replace it. But by the end of 2015, due to the collapse of oil prices, demand for oil wells and pipelines had fallen sharply, leading to the halt of the electric arc furnace plan. This is the second large-scale expansion of steel production in...

Taiwan Continues To Impose Anti-dumping Duties On Imported Cold-Rolled Stainless Steel From Mainland China And South Korea

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Taiwan's relevant departments have announced a sunset investigation of the continued imposition of anti-dumping duties on imported  Stainless Steel Cold-rolled Steel Products  from mainland China and South Korea, and the confirmation period of dumping investigation has been extended to June 7 this year. Officials from relevant departments said that final confirmation would be made in mid-August. The original applicants, Yelian Iron and Steel Company and Tang Rongtie Iron and Steel Works, filed applications for further levy on February 8 last year. Relevant departments believe that the above two enterprises are representative in Taiwan's intra-island industries. According to the information provided, it can be reasonably suspected that dumping and damage will continue or recur if anti-dumping duties on imported goods are suspended. However, the relevant departments pointed out that the questionnaires sent by  Stainless Steel Cold-rolled Steel Mills  in mainland...

Total Achievement Profit Of Iron And Steel Industry In 2018 Is 474.4 Billion Yuan

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First, crude steel production has reached a new record. In 2018, the output of pig iron, crude steel and steel (including duplicate materials) in China was 771 million tons, 928 million tons and 1.106 billion tons, respectively, which increased by 3.0%, 6.6% and 8.5% year on year, respectively. The output of crude steel reached a record high. In 2018, the apparent consumption of crude steel in China was 870 million tons, an increase of 14.8% over the same period of last year, reaching the highest level in history, with the self-sufficiency rate of domestic steel exceeding 98%. Second, steel exports continued to decline significantly. In 2018, China exported 69.34 million tons of steel, down 8.1% from the same period last year; the export amount was 398.5 billion yuan, up 7.7% from the same period last year; the average export price was 5747 yuan/ton, up 17.2% from the same period last year. In 2018, China imported 13.17 million tons of steel, a decrease of 1.0% compared with the pre...

Why Does The Stainless Steel Clad Plate Require Heat Treatment?

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Under the introduction of relevant professional and technical personnel, it can be understood that the  Stainless Steel Clad Plate  is a whole of stainless steel and other steels combined in a certain way, and it has the advantages of both stainless steel and other materials, which reduces the production. The new materials that cost and meet the actual needs are also widely used in petroleum, chemical, seawater desalination, nuclear industry, food industry, water conservancy facilities and other industries due to their outstanding characteristics. It is said that the heat treatment of  Stainless Steel Clad Plate China  is also a key part in the whole composite board production process. After the explosion welding, the strength of the composite steel sheet increases, the hardness increases, and the plasticity decreases, which is not conducive to the subsequent straightening and use requirements. . The heat treatment process is actually to eliminate the internal str...

The Largest Museum In Germany Has Stainless Steel Wire Mesh Facades

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The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Art in Mannheim, Germany, was commissioned at the end of 2017. It is the largest museum building in Germany and a model of architectural art. The exterior of the museum is covered with GDK brass stainless steel wire mesh. The atrium is covered with a glass roof, with plenty of light and fascinating scenery in all directions. The spacious space and the sense of world harmony stimulate the curiosity of tourists in exploring space. The stainless steel wire mesh exterior wall further emphasizes this style, defines the overall color tone of the building, and respects the local sandstone texture adopted by the surrounding buildings. The transparency of the wire mesh coated by the architect on the large glass surface is obviously higher than that of the wire mesh coated with the fibre cement board. Regardless of the viewing distance, this varying degree of transparency retains the effect of architectural concepts. Despite the huge size of...

The New Berth Of Baima Port Area Of Qingtuo Group Has a Capacity Of 4.33 Million Tons Per Year Since Its Operation

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Recently, 12 # and 13 # berths invested and constructed by Qingtuo Group Logistics Company and operated by Baima Port Area Bay Dock Operating Zone of Fuzhou Port ushered in the first berth, adding two more berths to Baima Port's important logistics hub Bay Dock Operating Zone of "Entry and Exit Gate, Wuyi Throat". It is understood that the construction scale of berths 12 # and 13 # in Baima Port Bay Dock Operating Zone is 2 berths of 35,000 tons and corresponding supporting facilities. The berth length of the wharf is 420 meters. The wharf structure is designed according to the berthing design of 50,000 tons bulk carriers. It can also meet the berthing requirements of a 50,000 tons bulk carrier and a 10,000 tons grocery ship. The annual design passing capacity of the wharf is 4.33 million tons. The project was approved in 2017 and started construction in November. After 10 months of accelerated construction, it successfully completed the construction of berths 12 # and...

Philippine Steelmakers Appeal To The Authorities To Ban The Import Of Second-hand IF Furnaces From China

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Foreign media Manila reported that some local Philippine steelmakers have appealed to the authorities to strictly prohibit the import of second-hand IF induction furnaces from China, because the steelmaking equipment produces inferior quality steel and is extremely vulnerable to environmental pollution. Since China banned induction furnaces widely in 2017, many obsolete induction furnaces have been sold to local steel plants in Indonesia and the Philippines. Roberto Cola, president of the Philippine Iron and Steel Industry Association, said that the capacity of induction furnaces in the Philippines had doubled in the past two years. In an interview with ANC's Market Edge column, Cola said that the production capacity of induction furnaces in the Philippines has increased sharply from 150,000 tons per year to 45-500,000 tons per year. In addition to aggravating pollution, induction furnace can not reduce impurity content in steelmaking process, which will greatly affect the...

ThyssenKrupp Plans To Split Into Two Separate Listed Companies

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Thyssenkrupp plans to split its industrial supplies and materials business into two more focused and efficient independent listed companies. The two listed companies will still use the names Thyssenkrupp Industries AG and Thyssenkrupp Materials AG. ThyssenKrupp Industries AG will include elevator business, automobile supplier business and core plant construction. ThyssenKrupp Materials AG will include material services, 50% equity of future steel joint ventures, bearings and forging business, shipping business units, engaged in steel,  Stainless Steel Production , material Trade and related steel processing. The size of the two listed companies is comparable: in fiscal year 2016/2017, ThyssenKrupp Industries AG employs about 90,000 people with sales of 16 billion euros; ThyssenKrupp Materials AG employs nearly 40,000 people with sales of 18 billion euros. Another source said that the Italian Telney  Stainless Steel Plant  (AST), which is now part of the Thyss...

Castle Peak Indonesia's Latest Progress In Ironmaking Project, Blast Furnace Hot Blast Stove Top Sealing!

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According to media reports, on December 30, 2018, New Year's Eve, all three hot stoves in Dexin Iron and Steel's No. 1 blast furnace system were sealed. Entering the new year, on January 5, 2019, the lifting of the 15-belt shell of the 1 # blast furnace body was completed. Hot blast stoves and blast furnaces are the most important and core buildings in the ironmaking system. Therefore, the top sealing of hot blast stoves in this blast furnace also means that important progress has been made in the project of 3.5 million tons ironmaking in Qingshan Indonesia. At present, Castle Peak has completed the construction of 3 million tons of  Stainless Steel Project . This 3.5 million tons of ironmaking project is the next plan. Castle Peak will build a comprehensive project of stainless steel and carbon in Indonesia. The project is located in the Molowali Industrial Park in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is constructed by Tsingshan Group, Delong Holdings and PT Indones...