BHP Billiton has appointed Glenn Kellow as President of Stainless Steel Materials, effective from 1 April 2010.
02/03/2010
BHP Billiton and Hyundai Steel have signed a supply contract which will see BHP Billiton delivering 22m tonnes of iron ore to Hyundai Steel over the eight years.
11/09/2009
BHP Billiton Stainless Steel Materials will sell the Yabulu nickel refinery to companies owned by Professor Clive Palmer.
03/07/2009
EUROPEAN steel makers have called for a competition probe into Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton’s joint iron ore project.
11/06/2009
BHP Billiton has shuffled key members of its staff around in preparation for a takeover of Rio Tinto.
17/04/2008
BHP Billiton has signed an agreement to supply China’s leading steelmaker Baosteel with an additional 94 million tonnes of iron ore over ten years.
31/01/2008
THE INDONESIAN government has sparked speculation following its comments on a potential partnership between BHP Billiton and Aneka Tambang to invest $4.8m in building a nickel smelter in Indonesia.
16/06/2008
BLUESCOPE Steel has entered into a ten-year contract with BHP Billiton to secure an additional 730,000t of fine iron ore a year.
22/09/2008
RIO Tinto says it made the right move in 2007 when it splashed out US$38b ($44.43b) to acquire Alcan, after BHP Billiton claimed the purchase had been too expensive.
28/08/2008
BHP BILLITON has closed its Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter furnace in Western Australia, cutting supplies by 28,000 tonnes and sending prices soaring.
13/06/2008
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
RIO Tinto has restarted its iron ore mining operations in Pilbara, putting an end to a two-week closure it undertook towards the close of 2008.
07/01/2009
NIPPON Steel and other Japanese steelmakers are calling for cuts of the costs their raw materials, as the costs of natural resources plummet and demand for steel drops.
30/01/2009
SUMITOMO Metal Mining has predicted a 26,000t global surplus in nickel for 2008, as demand for the metal falls along with stainless steel production.
17/09/2008
CAST CRC is holding its 11th aluminium conference in September 2009 to address the needs of the primary, secondary, foundry and recycling metal industries.
14/10/2008
AUSTIN Engineering has acquired the Chile-based steel dump truck body business of Conymet for US$19.6m ($23.23m).
05/08/2009
KADOR Engineering says after a recent audit by the QLD Department of Main Roads, it has now been formally included on Main Roads own list of approved fabricators.
11/02/2010
BHP Billiton is using a remotely-run robot for the extreme task of controlling the crust on molten metal in its Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter.
25/06/2008
RMIT University researchers are developing a highly sensitive and selective nano-engineered sensor for the online monitoring of mercury vapour emissions.
29/06/2010
THE Australian Stainless Steel Development Association (ASSDA) has opened sponsorship and trade booths bookings for the PacRim Stainless 2008 forum.
28/03/2008