Canadian auto parts supplier Linamar Gear located in Guelph, Ontario has expanded their manufacturing capacity with the addition of a new AFC-Holcroft UBQ (“Universal Batch Quench”) batch furnace facility. This order represents the 26th and 27th UBQ furnace at this site, making it one of the largest batch integral quench installations in the world.
Solar Atmospheres, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with RTI Claro, a business unit of RTI International Metals, Inc. located in Laval, Quebec, Canada, to extend its contract for the Vacuum Stress Relieving and Fluorescent Liquid Penetrant Inspection of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Titanium seat track system until December 2021.
Am 22. September 2014 erfolgte der erste Spatenstich für das Greenfield-Projekt am Ufer des Mississippi in Mississippi County, Arkansas, USA. Bereits im Juli 2014 wurde der Vertrag zum Bau dieses zukunftsweisenden Stahlwerks zwischen Big River Steel LLC. und der SMS group geschlossen.
The ceremony marking the start of the greenfield steel project on the Mississippi River in Mississippi County, Arkansas, U.S.A. took place in autumn 2014. As early as in July 2014, Big River Steel LLC. and the SMS group had signed the contract for the construction of this future-oriented steel complex.
CBMM (Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração), Brasilien, hat SMS Siemag den Auftrag zur Lieferung eines Elektroreduktionsofens (SAF) erteilt. Ziel ist es, am Standort Araxá, Brasilien, die Produktionskapazität zu erhöhen. Die Inbetriebnahme ist für den Jahreswechsel 2016/17 geplant.
Tata Steel has completed a major upgrade of the Hot Strip Mill at its Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales enabling it to further improve the quality of its steel products used in a wide range of markets, including automotive, engineering, construction and domestic appliances.
Axel Eggert has been nominated Director General of EUROFER on November 1, 2014. From 2007 to September 2014 Eggert was EUROFER’s Director for Public Affairs and Communication and since 1st of October he is acting Director General.
The 2nd edition of International Thermprocess summit concluded on 28 October 2014 at Leela Hotel Mumbai, India, proved to be a great success. It was jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf India, CECOF, heat processing, VDMA and was powered by THERMPROCESS. ITPS Asia is the key event for the thermprocess industry with the focus on sustainability, minimization of resource consumption and energy efficiency.
Thermo King, the world leader in transport temperature control systems for trucks and trailers, recently installed an automatic brazing machine from EFD Induction. The machine is employed to braze vibration absorbers, components used in the suction lines of air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
International technology Group Andritz has received an order from ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein, Germany, to modernize continuous annealing line No. 4 at the Andernach plant, the largest production site worldwide for packaging steel. The line for production of carbon steel is to resume operation at the end of 2015.
