ONESTEEL says it will start on the intensive part of its steel making plant refurbishment, reducing emissions and improving the steel making plant’s environmental performance.
04/03/2009
RESEARCHERS at CSIRO are analysing the behaviour of molten metals during steel- and aluminium-making processes in an attempt to make these operations more efficient.
23/10/2008
AUSTRALIA’s new steel making facility could be located in Gladstone, under a proposal which could create more than 1150 long-term jobs.
31/08/2009
SHANE Condon, the man behind the plan to overhaul steel-making in Australia, claims the project has the necessary backing, and is just an application of commonsense on a big scale.
02/09/2008
ACCORDING to Boulder Steel, the Queensland Coordinator General has declared its Gladstone Steel Project a ‘significant project’ for which an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is required.
07/04/2009
AUSTRALIAN-owned NZ Steel is creating an animated three-dimensional model of its iron-making plant at the Glenbrook steel mill.
11/08/2008
SYDNEY-based WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by United States Steel to form an alliance to support four of its steel works and tube making operations.
18/09/2009
STEEL making, electroplating and galvanising standards developer Frank Budge has been awarded the 2008 Meritorious Contribution Award by Standards Australia.
17/06/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel says a fire occurred at its Western Port plant Pickle Line building at 12am on 13 May 2009.
13/05/2009
ENVIRONMENTAL Clean Technologies says it has successfully tested its patented single step steel making process with a shipment of Mongolian brown coal.
22/08/2008
ONESTEEL is making moves to buy out Steel and Tube Holdings, and is hoping to do so within four weeks.
29/09/2008
ARCELORMITTAL is shutting down its steel-making furnaces across Europe, as the financial crisis precipitates a fall in demand from carmakers.
31/10/2008
CHINA will be bolstering its steel industry with tax cuts and subsidies in a $584b economy stimulus package based on boosting the automotive sector and infrastructure projects.
15/01/2009
STEEL and aluminium companies will be lobbying politicians representing coal mining, and metal making and metal working towns in an attempt to overhaul the Federal climate change policy.
09/03/2009
CALLIDAN Instruments says it is helping a steel manufacturer improve sinter production efficiency at its facilities in Serbia.
27/04/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel has stopped its New Zealand slab-making operation the water-cooling system failed.
21/07/2008
LANZATECH has won the Green Technology Innovator of the Year award for its technology which recycles waste gases from steel mill flues.
02/09/2009
KIRBY Adams, former CEO of Bluescope Steel Australia, has taken on the role of CEO of Corus and Tata Steel Europe.
12/01/2009
WITH the current focus on steel prices and supply, industry commentators may be overlooking the role of zinc in the equation.
25/06/2008
THE NSW Trade Exposed Emissions Intensive Industry (TEEII) Summit saw a number of representatives from the metal sector discussing the implications of emissions control on the industry.
23/06/2008