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NLMK Launches New Converter at Lipetsk
Oct. 13, 2011 - NLMK has put a new 300-tonne converter into operation at the company’s main production site in Lipetsk as part of the company’s multi-year Technical Upgrade Program
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NLMK Prepares to Launch New BOF
Sep. 15, 2011 - NLMK has started up a new 300 million tonne/year BOF at Novolipetsk, which will help to boost the Lipetsk plant’s annual steelmaking capacity 36% to 12.4 million tonnes.
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Mechel Launches New Converter at Chelyabinsk
Aug. 24, 2011 - Mechel OAO has launched the new converter #2 in Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen-converter shop. Replacement of the converter #2 is the first stage in a reconstruction program for the plant’s oxygen-converter shop.
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ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih Breaks Converter Lining Record
Aug. 19, 2011 - The converter shop of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih achieved a record vessel-lining life for converter #5 of 4,070 steel casts implemented during its campaign life from December 4, 2010, to August 15, 2011.
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Siemens to Supply AOD Converter to Viraj Profiles
Jun. 7, 2011 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies won an order from stainless steel producer Viraj Profiles Ltd. to supply an AOD (argon-oxygen decarburization) converter for its plant located in Tarapur, Maharashtra, India. The project is scheduled for completion by mid-2011.
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Metinvest Decommissions Open Hearth Furnace at Azovstal
May 27, 2011 - Metinvest has implemented its decision to completely decommission the Open Hearth Furnace at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works as part of a comprehensive modernization and reconstruction program targeting reduction of man-made environmental burden and harmful emissions.
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Metinvest to Launch BOF Steel Rail Production at Azovstal
Apr. 29, 2011 - Metinvest is launching BOF steel rails production at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. The manufacturing procedure for the rails production has been approved by Azovstal’s strategic partner, Ukrainian Rail monopoly Ukrzaliznytsya.
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Tata Steel Invests in Cooling at Port Talbot Steelworks
Apr. 27, 2011 - Tata Steel has invested £53 million at its Port Talbot works to introduce in the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking plant a new cooling system that will produce steam, allowing electricity to be generated. The investment reportedly will reduce its external power requirements by about 15%.
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Bhilai Steel Plant Sets Record for Converter Lining Life
Dec. 2, 2010 - Bhilai Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) has set a national benchmark with Converter ‘C’ in its Steel Melting Shop-II recording 12,325 heats in lining life before it was taken down for relining. The plant broke its own previous national record for top-blown converters of 11,036 heats achieved by Converter ‘B’.
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Evraz Completes Modernization at NTMK
Nov. 26, 2010 - Evraz Group completed the modernization of its converter shop at NTMK, Evraz’s steel mill in the Urals, Russia. The converter shop’s annual capacity increased by 0.7 million tonnes to 4.5 million tonnes of steel as a result of the modernization.
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SMS Siemag to Extend X-Melt Converter Shop at Dragon Steel
May 28, 2010 - Dragon Steel Corp. has placed an order with SMS Siemag to supply the third 230-tonne converter as part of the extension of the carbon steel plant (Phase II). The third converter is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
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Dragon Steel Orders RH-TOP Unit from SMS Mevac
May 26, 2010 - Dragon Steel of Taichung, Taiwan, has awarded SMS Mevac a contract to supply a second RH-TOP unit, which is the expansion of the secondary metallurgical key equipment for the new BOF steelworks.
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Praxair Canada to Supply Essar Steel Algoma
May 20, 2010 - Praxair Canada and Essar Steel Algoma sign a long-term supply agreement for the design and construction of a cryogenic air separation plant that will supply 900 tons per day of gaseous oxygen to Algoma’s Sault Ste. Marie steelmaking plant.
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voestalpine Continues to Invest in Linz
Apr. 28, 2010 - voestalpine Stahl GmbH continued its EUR 700 million investment program “L6” in the 2009/10 business year, despite the poor economic climate. About one-half of all the L6 projects, which extend the annual crude steel production from 5.5 million to approximately 6 million tonnes, were implemented.
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Siemens Receives New Order for Dry Dedusting System in China
Apr. 9, 2010 - A steel producer from Northern China has ordered a dry dedusting system from Siemens VAI Metals Technologies that is to be installed in an LD steel works. The project also includes a gas recovery system that collects and treats the converter gas for subsequent power generation.
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NLMK Launches Final Stage of Environmental Project
Mar. 18, 2010 - Novolipetsk Steel has begun the final stage of reconstructing the gas exhaust ducts at BOF Shop No.1 at its main production site in Lipetsk, the goal of which is to improve operational reliability and reduce the company’s environmental impact.
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Siemens Replaces LD Converters at CSN
Mar. 11, 2010 - Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) has placed an order with Siemens for the replacement of two LD converters at its Volta Redonda location. Turnkey delivery of the converters is planned during the summer of 2011 and at the end of 2012, respectively.
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