Furnaces with conveyor belt feed together with oil, salt or polymer quenching tank, for hardening, casehardening, carbonitriding under controlled atmosphere
Power-usage restrictions in China will trim steel capacity and boost prices.
Power restrictions by local governments in China, the biggest steelmaking nation, may lead to the suspension of 25 million metric tons of annual steel capacity, helping boost prices, Credit Suisse Group AG said. Disruption to steel production has started as local governments rush to meet year-end power efficiency targets, Trina Chen, a Credit Suisse analyst, said in a note.
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Chain company Frigerio. Always a made to measure product.
The company Mario Frigerio & Figlio s.n.c. has been present on the domestic and international market for many years: a long way from the first company set up in 1953 by Mario Frigerio, to our present concern opened in 1981. A heritage of knowledge and experience coming from its history and reached after a long period of development during which the company conformed itself to the different market requirements combining innovation and reliability.
The company distinguishes itself on the market survey because it works with particular attention and care to the customers’ requirements. The main competitive resource of MF – Mario Frigerio & Figlio s.n.c. – consists in being able to give adequate and qualified answers, with the necessary flexibility, to the specific customers’ requirements, to satisfy the different demands with a “made to measure” product. Chains - Lifting rings - Security chains
Posco, Korea’s leading steelmaker, concluded its purchase of Daewoo International Corp., the nation’s leading trading company, from the Korea Asset Management Corp. and other creditors in a 3.37 trillion won ($2.8 billion) deal.
Larger or smaller product volumes, standard products or highly customised ones, this is what Giuseppe & F.lli Bonaiti S.p.A. makes available to its customers.
The investments, both in the sector of flat rolled sections and in the drawing of wire-rod derivate products, have led Bonaiti to become stronger and more stabile and to propose itself as a first choice product supplier, always attentive to the increasingly growing requirements of the customers. Bonaiti is located in Calolziocorte, Lecco, Italy. It offers: Steel strip for heat treatment Case-hardening steels - C10E, C15E Stainless steel strip for springs AISI 301, AISI 304, AISI 430 Steel strip for heat treatment Steels for quenching and tempering C22E, C35E, C40E, C45E, C50E, C55E, C60E Steel strip for cold forming DC01, DC03, DC04 Steel strip for heat treatment
Steels for springs and other applications C55S, C60S, C67S, C75S, C85S, C100S, 51CrV4 Special products: Bobbins Reels Shaped borders Narrow strips Shaped steel wire or Metal strap
The recovery in industrial activities in US, EU, China, Japan, India, Russia and Brazil is good news for the steel, iron and chrome ore sector. This is also evident from the increase in steel production from the lows of last year.
Zimbabwe government renews search for strategic partner in steel venture.
Industry Minister Welshman Ncube said Zimbabwe does not see multinational corporations as appropriate partners for the restructuring of state-controlled enterprises such as ZiscoSteel.
We are glad to inform you that the online stand of the Italian firm T.M.I. (Trafileria Manzoni Italo) is now fully available in English. We invite you to visit it, to discover everything about the company's production. Trafileria Manzoni Italo - is an Italian factory specialized in wet wire-drawing of bright and galvanized wire with low, medium and high carbon content. The efficiency of its customer Service and the capability to adapt to the continuous changes of the market, have been granting T.M.I. srl a leading position in its field. T.M.I. srl offers a prompt delivery because of its intense economic-financial investments to develop and renew its machinery and offering to its customers a huge variety of party semi-finished products.
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Chung Joon-yang, the chief executive of the world’s fourth largest steelmaker POSCO, proposed on Monday that a committee representing the steel industries of South Korea, China and Japan should be established to tackle issues such as rising materials costs.
Speaking at the Asia Steel Forum in Seoul, Chung proposed the establishment of such a committee under the guidelines of steel industry associations of each nation.
A new firm enters in the online fair: Tecnologie Industriali srl. Industrial systems with particular attention paid to the environment.
Tecnologie Industriali srl is a dynamic young company which specializes in the production of turnkey industrial systems, constantly updating its range to meet the ever more demanding needs of its clients, supplying one of the most complete services available on the market today. The established skills, born of the ten years of experience of the founders and staff, ranging from consultancy to design, to the production of custom solutions in the field of industrial systems for the metallurgy and galvanic sectors, chemical and the construction of large structures and public spaces. The special features of the firm's systems are based upon constant attention to environmental aspects, a subject which Tecnologie Industriali srl approaches with great commitment starting with the selection of materials used in production, to the installation of said systems.
Further price fall in base metals & steel unlikely in near future.
Prices of base metals and steel have been increasing for quite some time now. However, there is a sharp surge in these metal prices in the current quarter compared with the June 2010 quarter. At 22.5%, zinc prices have increased the fastest on LME (London Metal Exchange). Prices of copper, aluminium, and steel have risen by 16%, 12% and 15.4%, respectively.
China, the world’s biggest aluminium and steel consumer, may see a relatively slow growth in its economy this year but it is still expected to grow 9% annually.
We hereby inform that the new website of the firm “Angeli s.r.l.” is finally available at the following weblink: www.angelisrl.eu
New graphic, simplified consultation, great contents, correlated video and updating on all lines produced, with last news by the builder, which is specialized in automatic machines, winding, welding, and packaging machines for wire and wire products.
Global steel production almost back to pre-crisis levels.
World steel production increased by 9,6% year-on-year last month to 114,8-million tons, and is now only 2,1% below pre-economic crisis levels, the World Steel Association reported. The association said that while most Asian and Middle Eastern countries actually showed higher production numbers than before the impact of the crisis was felt, the US, Japan and producing countries in EU and Africa were still not back to pre-crisis production levels.
Trafilerie San Paolo manufactures rolled, drawn and peeled steel in coils and bars, raw and annealed, with and without phosphate coat, in diameters from 2.00 mm to 35.00 mm, mainly for the production of cold deformed parts. The customers are manufacturers of pressed bolts and nuts and special parts and they use their steel for the production of low resistance bolts and nuts, self-threading bolts and screws, as well as low, medium, high resistance connecting parts.
Corus strengthens UK steel industry with £185 million investment at Port Talbot.
Corus, the European arm of Tata Steel said that it will invest £185 million to rebuild a blast furnace at Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales, a move that will secure the British steel industry.
As rightly so, many firms close for vacation in August. The international online fair continues to communicate also for them, always working, always updated with the latest industry news in 5 languages, always the voice of the online exhibitors. Among these was a new arrival, MECAVIT: in short, you will be able to visit their online stand.
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Become an online exhibitor, fully exploiting the possibilities that online communication offers, and the 20.000 visitors a month that this network can assure you, on an international basis.
- You will have an online booth in 5 languages. - A target of users of more than 20,000 per month - And a next generation platform that can be completely managed from your office.
Steel maker Timken Co. invests $50 million in Ohio.
Bearings and specialty steel maker Timken Co. said Thursday it will invest $50 million in its steel operations in Canton, Ohio, to help keep up with increasing demand. The money will pay for installation of a new intermediate finishing line at the Gambrinus Steel Plant, which will improve efficiency and incorporate new technologies and processes. The line is expected to be fully operational in 2013.
A protagonist in the world of process control, now on wiredrawing.net
We are glad to welcome a new online exposer of this website: iba ag, that arrives now in Italy, presenting a series of hardware and software dedicated to the world of process control. The main target is to foreseen to the end users and to companies, who design and manufacture the machineries and production lines, some products dedicated to:
- Staff Quality Manager; - Staff Production Manager; - Electrical and mechanical maintenance. These products are often used in the steel plants, as EAF/LF Furnaces, continuous casting machines (CCM) until the end of any rolling mill, through the preheating furnace and the finish area, as a stacker machine, a winder or and high speed block (BGV).
The 23-feet-high Ashoka Pillar inside Delhi’s historic Qutub Minar complex has, over the years, fascinated tourists and metallurgists. The tourists pose beside it. The technically inclined touch it with awe and respect. For the 1,600 year-old Pillar is testimony to the metallurgical skills of India’s earliest steelmakers.
New tube cleaning system, presented by a new online exposer.
The Compri tube cleaning system was developed at the beginning of the nineties in Australia in close co-operation with Curtin University. It is based upon environmentally friendly molded and flexible polyurethane foam projectiles, which are compacted and propelled by means of compressed air at speed of up to 15 meters per second through Hose Tube and Pipes (HTP). The projectile cleans HTP lines with ease. Right angled bends; T pieces; turns and windings, ball and through valves are all easily negotiated.
POSCO in joint venture with Indonesian steelmaker.
South Korea's largest steelmaker POSCO said it signed an agreement with Indonesia's Krakatau Steel to set up a joint venture in the Southeast Asian country.
The steel mill will be built at Cilegon in West Java in two phases. When the first phase is completed by 2013, it will have an annual capacity of three million tons.
Bolts, screws etc.: the right name is Fasteners Srl.
Fasteners, partner of the Agrati Group, can supply a large range of services to its clients. Qualified for the ISO 9001:2000 rules further to the high quality products supplied, in conformity with the EN, UNI and DIN rules, Fasteners is looking to become the “Special”, on technical and mechanical characteristics, items supplier. Running two warehouses, Napoli and Bari, by a dedicated software, the company can immediately answer about tracing and delivery.
The marketing strategy goal is to develop the commercial services, the distribution network, the client assistance, the perfect quality system handling and at last but not at least an expansion to the international markets.
Global commodity prices have begun to soften as China’s economic juggernaut slows. The prices of steel, zinc and aluminium have fallen in the past three months. China’s manufacturing sector growth rate has dropped to February 2009 levels, when global markets had just bottomed out after the Lehman impact.