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ArcelorMittal has announced that it will invest €300 million in the construction of a new steel unit at its Mardyck site in northern France. The plant , which will come on stream in 2024, will have an annual production capacity of up to 200,000 tons of high-strength steel, in thicknesses between 0.2 mm and 0.35 mm. The company also revealed that it plans to replace a basic oxygen furnace in operation at its nearby Dunkirk plant at the end of 2023.
In addition, ArcelorMittal plans to install a new heat treatment line at its Dąbrowa Górnicza plant in Poland. The equipment will enable the processing of 120-meter-long head-hardened rails, which will comply with the latest international standards. The project is expected to be completed in 2023.
Italian steelmaker Cogne Acciai Speciali confirms that it will modernize the stainless steel bar rolling line at its Aosta plant later this year. The project will reduce operating costs and increase the power available to the rolling mill, improving its overall efficiency.
Pacific Steel Group announced that it will build a micro rebar rolling mill in Mojave, Calif. The company is investing $350 million in the project, which will be powered by renewable energy sources. The site will have an annual production capacity of 380,000 tons when it is commissioned in early 2025.
Xilin Steel, a subsidiary of China’s Jianlong Group, has commissioned a new hot-rolling line at its long products plant in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province. The new plant produces reinforcing bar in diameters from 12 to 16 mm at a rate of 1.6 million tons per year.
Zenith Steel has completed work on the first blast furnace at its steel mill in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The unit, installed as part of the company’s capacity transfer program, can melt two million tons of iron per year. Two more furnaces, with a combined annual output of four million tons, are expected to go online this year. A bar mill with an annual output of 600,000 tons has also recently been commissioned
A high-strength plate plant recently went into operation at Guangsheng New Material’s plant in Guanxi Province. It produces steel sheets with a tensile strength of up to 1,300 MPa at a rate of 500,000 tons per year. The material produced will mainly be used in the manufacture of heavy machinery for the construction and mining industries.
New hot rolling line recently commissioned by Jiangsu Delong Nickel, located in its Liyang City stainless steel complex. The new plant has the capacity to produce up to 6 million tons per year, making it the largest continuous rolling strip production line of its kind in the world. The project cost nearly $750 million. The site’s cold rolling capacity is also being expanded, with plans in place to eventually reach an annual output of 5 million tons of high-performance stainless steel.
As part of its capacity replacement program, Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel plans to build a new 90-ton electric arc furnace with an associated precision casting and rolling line at one of its existing facilities in Taiyuan. The plant will be capable of producing up to 700,000 tons of 300- and 400-series stainless steel coils per year.
