The 4th Steel Orbis Turkish Steel Market Conference held in Istanbul on November 13th 2009, with the sponsorship of KMC, began with a quick look by the SteelOrbis team at market developments since the last conference took place. After this general overview, Mr Veysel Yayan general secretary of Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association, made a presentation in which he cast his eye over trends in steel…

It is reported that the absence of demand from Turkey has triggered a sharp plunge in ferrous scrap prices on the German market in May. This turn events had already loomed large in the previous month, when prices initially soared by EUR 60 per tonne to EUR 80 per tonne compared with March. According to the latest EUWID market report "However, soon after the middle of April, follow up orders had already…

Turkmenistan is interested in attracting investors to re-equip the mining industry, the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has said. According to the report, there are more than 200 different fields of solid minerals in Turkmenistan, most of which are located in mountainous areas. "As for already explored deposits, the principal objective is to expand the list and product quality, to…

Some 210 kilometers of the Bereket Etrek section of the North-South transnational railway have been laid, the Turkmen government said on Feb. 12. Earlier it was reported that a 300 kilometer railway line is planned to be commissioned in October 2014. This term was set by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in early 2014. The North-South project is being…

Already a leading-edge foundry with low scrap rates, Condals deployed the Monitizer IIoT platform at its two facilities in Manresa, Spain and Štúrovo, Slovakia. It collected data and built its own dashboards to monitor live process KPIs using Monitizer | DISCOVER, then applied AI to optimize casting quality through Monitizer | PRESCRIBE. It also implemented the Monitizer | DETECT predictive maintenance…

Last year brought an extremely positive result for the Salzburger Aluminium Group ( sag.at ). Despite difficult conditions caused by the pandemic, supply chain problems, the semiconductor crisis and the resulting production stoppages at OEMs, a significant jump in turnover was achieved in 2021. Group sales rose by more than 35 percent to EUR 207 million, the EBIT margin to seven percent. This is because the…

In 2019, two LiquiRob systems from Primetals Technologies commenced operation at the Meishan plant of Chinese steel producer Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Baosteel). Commissioning only took four to five days. Additionally, an order was placed to supply a LiquiRob system for Baosteel´s Zhanjiang plant. This raises the total number of LiquiRobs operating in Baosteel plants to five. The projects followed…

Any foundry that has origins dating back to the 1940´s and is still operating is a rare occurrence in South African foundry industry. NI-Foundry, formerly known as Guestro Casting and Machining, is one of a few. NI-Foundry belongs to Naledi Inhlanganiso (Pty) Ltd and is a manufacturing group established in 2013 focusing its operations on iron and steel manufacturing for the rail, mining, energy and…