Category: Industry News

Two new national standards will be performed  in February 2024 YB/T 6110-2023 Hot rolled steel plates and strips of chromium-manganese-nickel-nitrogen austenitic stainless steel This document specifies the chromium – manganese – nickel – nitrogen austenitic stainless steel hot rolled steel plate and steel strip order content, grade, size, shape, weight,…

The world record of continuous casting round billet with 1.2m diameter will be broken, CFHI company is manufacturing diameter 1.6 meters oversized cross-section round billet vertical semi-continuous casting machine, is the world’s first set. After the commissioning of this equipment, the maximum length of casting billets can be cast 12.5…

BHP Billiton has partnered with Allonnia, a Bill Gates-backed biotech startup, to investigate the use of rock-eating microbes to address emissions from the steelmaking process.Allonnia has discovered microbes in BHP Billiton’s iron ore that reduce the levels of phosphorus and aluminum in the ore, increasing the grade of the iron…

Photovoltaic demonstration project in steel mill works steady. The first phase of Jinxi Iron and Steel distributed photovoltaic project uses the roof, slope,avenue and open space in the factory to build photovoltaic 42MW project, all the photoelectric power generated is used for factory production. Huawei intelligent photovoltaic module controller is installed…

This week the Global Mineral Resources Strategy Research Center of the China Geological Survey released the Global Mineral Resources Reserves Assessment Report 2023. The report provides a comprehensive and objective assessment of the global reserves of 13 mineral resources by the end of 2021. The report collects data of more…

In 2016, TISCO successfully developed hand-tear stainless steel with a thickness of only 0.02mm, and in 2020 TISCO created another hand-tear stainless steel with a thickness of 0.015mm, breaking the world’s thinnest record. Ultra-thin high-grade non-oriented silicon steel, thickness of 0.15mm 2023.March, BaoWu New Steel Group’s ultra-thin high-grade non-oriented silicon…

University of Science and Technology Beijing’s new revised undergraduate admission letter made a stunning debut, the admission letter is made of super thin steel foil (also named 5G steel). The 5G steel thickness up to 0.07mm is mainly 5G base station signal receiver, signal transmission filter, integrated circuit board and other sector. The research…

The 21st China International Metallurgical Industry Exhibition was held in Shanghai from June 14-16, 2023. 2023 Metallurgy China focuses on green products and solutions, low-carbon environmental protection equipment and technology, intelligent manufacturing equipment and technology, metallurgical products, industrial automation supporting and peripheral products, metallurgical production raw and auxiliary materials, pipe processing equipment and…

World Steel Statistics recently released by the World Steel Association Crude steel production Global crude steel production in 2022 was 1.885 billion tons, down 3.9% y-o-y. China’s crude steel production reached 1.018 billion tons in 2022, down 1.7% y-o-y and down for the second consecutive year, with production accounting for 54.0%…

Recently, HSC Group has successfully developed and produced green high-end die steel through the triple process of EAF+LF+VOD (electric arc furnace + ladle refining furnace + vacuum refining furnace) with high quality clean raw material DRI products by hydro-metallurgy, which is the first time in the industry to apply this…