Category: Mining and Metals Processing

U.S. Steel to restart second blast furnace to support increasing demand

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it will restart the second of two blast furnaces (‘A’ blast furnace) at its Granite City Works, an integrated steelmaking plant in Granite City, Ill.

USAF-96 Steel demonstrates high strength and toughness with no tungsten or cobalt

Defense TechLink, Bozeman, Montana, reports that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin AFB in Florida has developed USAF-96 Steel, a low-alloy steel that has demonstrated strength and toughness at −40°C even in sections up to four inches thick.

Silverchair to provide hosting for ASM’s online materials information resources

Silverchair Information Systems, Charlottesville, Va., announces a partnership with ASM International, Cleveland, to develop a unified hosting solution for ASM’s authoritative materials information resources.

Nucor to invest $240 million in galvanizing line, $230 million for specialty cold mill complex

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces that it will invest $240 million to construct a galvanizing line at the company’s sheet mill in Arkansas to support Nucor’s growth into a wider and more diverse set of strategic end-market applications.

Alcoa, RioTinto join to develop aluminum smelting process that emits only oxygen gas

Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, and Rio Tinto, London, announce a revolutionary aluminum smelting process that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse gas emissions.

Natural-gas-fired box furnaces to develop process control requirements for drill heads

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped three natural-gas-fired box furnaces to a parts manufacturer for the oil and gas industry to develop process control requirements for heat-treating and stress relieving of underground mining/drill heads.

New press brake and swing beam shear led to higher furnace sales for Lindberg MPH in 2017

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., reports that, in the beginning of 2017, the company purchased an Ermak press brake and hydraulic swing beam shear to maximize production capabilities.

Concentrations of rare earth elements >300 ppm found in American coal basins

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, reports that its engineers have found high rare earth element concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region.

Lindberg MPH box furnace can provide six different heat treating atmospheres

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated rod over-bend atmosphere box furnace capable of providing six different atmospheres, to a company in the steel and mining industry.

U.S. Steel Corp. finalizes sale of U.S. Steel Canada to Bedrock Industries

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it has finalized an agreement with Bedrock Industries Group LLC, New York, for the sale and transition of ownership of U.S. Steel Canada Inc. to Bedrock.