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Egyptian steel re-roller Metad Helwan for Metal Rolling plans to list a 15-30pct stake on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) in the second half of 2027, with the company targeting proceeds of around EGP 1 bln (USD 19.45 mln)…
Tata Steel has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate for a coke-oven gas purification and hydrogen production system supplied by Canada's PyroGenesis through its subsidiary Pyro Green-Gas at the Kalinganagar steel…
Turkish steelmaker Ekinciler Demir ve Celik Sanayi plans to establish a facility at its Iskenderun, Hatay plant to recover zinc from electric arc furnace (EAF) dust and produce commercial zinc oxide. The approximately…
Voestalpine has received the core equipment for a new electric arc furnace (EAF) at its Linz steelworks, with the facility scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2027. The equipment, manufactured in Germany…
Huttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) has permanently decommissioned Blast Furnace A at its Duisburg site after more than 53 years of operation, as part of Salzgitter AG's transition toward lower-carbon steel production…
B5Plus Group has selected Danieli to supply equipment for a new rebar and wire rod mill in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), with production capacity of 50 tons per hour, or around 300,000 tons per year. The mill…
Severstal has completed development and started production of Forcera weather-resistant steel in thin-sheet form, targeting long-life protective structures for road and civil infrastructure. The first application is…
Ezz Steel has selected Danieli Automation to supply a new extended Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for its Ezz Flat Steel plant in Ain Sokhna, Egypt, as part of the company's digital transformation strategy. The…
Jinan Steel Group has placed two separate orders with SMS group for large-scale travelling grate pelletizing plants at its steelworks in Hebei province, China. One plant, with a capacity of 2.4 mln tons per year, will…
GravitHy has awarded CAP INGELEC an EPC contract to design and build a 1.15 GW electrical substation for its planned low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI) production facility in Fos-sur-Mer, France. The substation will…
U. S. Steel has received the final required air permit to proceed with construction of a new quench and tempering (Q&T) facility at its Fairfield Tubular Operations in Alabama. The USD 475 mln project will add in-house…
Flux Steel Works has unveiled plans to renovate and re-equip a former ATI steel plant in Ohio to produce grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), the core material used in power transformers. The company acquired the…
Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, a subsidiary of Salzgitter AG, and Zelestra have signed Germany's largest hybrid solar-plus-energy-storage power purchase agreement (PPA), supporting the supply of renewable electricity for…
ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) has launched AM/NS Pelican, a premium galvanized steel brand targeting growing demand from India's construction, infrastructure, manufacturing and engineering sectors. The…
U.S. Steel Kosice (USSK) has approved an investment of approximately EUR 900 mln (USD 1.03 bln) in a new electric arc furnace (EAF) and air separation unit (ASU) at its Kosice steelworks, strengthening the plant's…
GSM Tanzania Limited has awarded Danieli a contract to supply a new 300,000 tons per year rebar and wire rod mill at the Kilimanjaro Industrial Park in Tanzania. The mill will process 150x150-mm billets at a production…
Direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) increased 8.3pct YoY to around 67.7 mln tons in 2025, according to Midrex Technologies' 2025 World Direct Reduction Statistics. The region…
Tosyali Algerie has made its first export shipment of cold-rolled steel from its new cold rolling complex in Bethioua, Oran, marking the start of international sales from the facility. The company said the first export…
Egypt's Ministry of Industry has received 10 applications from local steel companies for eight billet production licences with a combined capacity of 2.8 mln tons per year, according to local media reports. The…
Tata Steel has commissioned a coke oven gas (COG) injection project at Blast Furnace No. 1 at its Meramandali steel plant in Odisha, describing it as the first-of-its-kind project in the Indian steel industry. The…
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