Category: Metal Products and Machinery

Wieland Metals $25 million expansion to double its U.S. metal tube production

Wieland Metals Inc., Wheeling, Ill., recently announced plans for a $25 million expansion to build a new 110,000-square-foot plant on 11 acres outside Chicago, creating an estimated 65 new jobs.

United States Steel reports 2017 earnings of $387 million, vs. 2016 loss of $440 million

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, reports full-year 2017 net earnings of $387 million, compared to full-year 2016 net loss of $440 million, as investments in upgrading equipment in its flat-rolled segment helped to improve performance.

Danieli to build JSW Steel “Plate Mill of the Future” in Texas for higher quality and precision

JSW Steel (USA) Baytown, Texas, has received preliminary Board approval, contingent upon securing governmental financial support, to proceed with a full-scale modernization project expected to take approximately 20 months to complete.

Lindberg/MPH ships gas fired zinc melting, holding furnace for diecasting

Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired melting and holding furnace with a maximum temperature of 850°F for melting and holding up to 45,000 pounds of molten zinc for diecasting.

$1.5 million project to research monitoring digital production machines from the cloud

Researchers and analysts from Penn State, Case Western Reserve University, the GE Global Research Center, and Microsoft announce that they are working on a $1.5 million collaborative research project to develop a cloud-based wireless sensing and prognostic system for monitoring machinery health.

Classic Article: Continuous Carburizing by Gas

Despite the growth of alloy steels and special means of surface hardening, the ancient art of carburizing steel remains one of the fundamental operations in the manufacture of machine parts.

Bodycote sponsors Periodic Table of Fictional Metals

Bodycote, Macclesfield, England, has produced the Periodic Table of Fictional Metals, elements that have appeared in classical myths, books, films, comic books, and computer games for many years, as creative people invented metals with mythical or magical qualities.

SSAB introduces five steel product families for specific applications

SSAB, Stockholm, introduces five steel product families tailored for production processes and maximized end-product performance: SSAB Domex, SSAB Boron, SSAB Form, SSAB Laser Plus, and SSAB Weathering.

Alcoa chooses the name Arconic for its future value-add company

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that the name for its future company dedicated to value-added products will be Arconic, in which “A” represents Alcoa, “arc” represents the arc of progress, and “-conic” speaks to the company’s history of creating iconic products.

Reliance acquires Tubular Steel for its specialty steel products

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Tubular Steel Inc., which stocks over 60,000 tons and ships over two million custom-cut lengths of pipe, tubing, and bar products annually.