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STI jan 2_Layout 1 7/18/11 10:18 AM Page 1 July/August 2011 – Vol.35 No.5 – www.steeltimesint.com NEWS HANDLING PROCESSING CONFERENCE REPORT STEEL TIMES INTERNATIONAL – July/August 2011 TIMES INTERNATIONAL STEEL – Vol.35 No.5 – Vol.35 jul aug_Contents_STI_Mar10 7/21/11 10:30 AM Page 3 July/August 2011 Contents Vol.35/No.5 Front cover image courtesy of Woodings Equipment, the hydraulic distributor EDITORIAL Editor Tim Smith PhD, CEng, MIM Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855154 [email protected] Deputy Editor Greg Morris Handling – Page 19 Handling – Page 24 Tel:+44 (0) 1737 855132 Production Editor Annie Baker SALES International Sales Manager Paul Rossage [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855116 Area Sales Manager Anne Considine [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855139 Group Sales Manager Ken Clark [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855117 Processing – Page 36 Heat recovery – Page 45 Marketing Executive Annie O’Brien [email protected] News Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855284 News – Australia wins $300M ‘relief’ in carbon tax 2 Advertisement Production Martin Lawrence Statistics & Events – Production up 4.2% in May and 5% in April 8 [email protected] USA Update – Steel industry urges Congress to crack down on unfair trading practices by foreign countries 10 Tel: +44 (0) 1737 855332 Latin America Update – CSN’s internationalisation phase three: Commercial flow in the opposite direction 12 SUBSCRIPTION China Update – Resumed power cut policy impacts production 14 Katerina Smith Tel +44 (0) 1737 855032 India Update – Steel consumption up in India in FY 2010-11 16 Fax +44 (0) 1737 855358 Email [email protected] Handling Steel Times International is published eight times a year and is available on subscription. 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CRU 2011 Latin American iron & steel trends conference: Steel profits under pressure 40 Printed in England by: Pensord, Tram Road, Pontlanfraith, Analysis of potential and specific problems of heat recovery in the EAF 45 Blackwood, Gwent NP12 2YA, UK Barriers to product innovation in EU steel companies 49 ©Quartz Business Media ltd 2011 History: Pioneers of Steelmaking: Part 3 – The science of steel 52 Features on the web www.steeltimesint.com/features Conference reports: The 9th International Steel Market and Trade Conference, Beijing/Eurofer – European Steel Day/Eurocoke Summit 2011 in Vienna/Moscow’s Litmash 2011 Handling: Lowering the emissions from heavy forklifts Processing: Carl Cloos – Welding rail bogies/Kienzle Prozessanalytik – Inline measurement of film thickness/ Spartanics/Friedrich Vollmer – Strip shape measurement ISSN 0143-7798 www.steeltimesint.com Steel Times International – July/August 2011 – 1 STI news_Layout 1 7/18/11 2:24 PM Page 1 News in Brief World News www.steeltimesint.com Metals for Building alliance The steel industry has helped launch Australia wins $300M US ore in the Metals for Buildings European alliance. It has called on EU legisla- tors to consider end-of-life recycling ‘relief’ in carbon tax Hebei plan rate of building products as a resource saving indicator. Steel manufacturers have emerged O'Malley said the proposed com- China’s Hebei Steel, Australian It brings together nine European as key winners under a AU$9.2bn pensation ‘if implemented as company Richmond Mining, and its metals associations active in the compensation package for indus- explained to us, deals with the US subsidiary Nevada Iron have building sector to promote the tries affected by the Australian car- steel sector’s carbon tax issues in a signed a JV to develop Buena Vista strengths of metal products for recy- bon tax. significant way for the first four iron ore mine in Nevada, USA. clable & sustainable buildings. Manufacturers will get $1.2bn years’. The combination of free The Buena Vista magnetite iron The use of metals should be consid- over four years to improve energy permits and $300M is expected to ore reserves are estimated at 400Mt ered as an investment, and not as efficiency and invest in clean tech- cover the steel makers’ entire costs and is cheaper to exploit compared pure consumption. Metal scrap col- nology, while steel makers will get a from the carbon price in the to those in Australia due to its prox- lection and recycling from the dem- five-year, $300M bonus on top of scheme’s early years. imity to nearby railway and ports. olition or renovation of buildings is their extensive free permits to emit The $300 million is to help Once the new company success- already a well-established business carbon. ‘investment and innovation’ in the fully obtains $161M in financing, activity thanks to the high intrinsic The extra money for steel and industry, but there is little detail on Hebei Steel would be entitled to financial value of metal scrap. manufacturing follows public cam- how it will be delivered. 80% of its iron ore production, with paigning for protection by High-emitting industries - such the preferred option for the remain- Vijayanagar contracts BlueScope Steel and OneSteel, as steel, aluminium, zinc, pulp and ing 20%. Indian group JSW Steel has awarded along with manufacturing unions paper makers - will get 94.5% of With all options exercised, Hebei two contracts worth $135M to and industry groups. their carbon permits for free. Steel will be holding 19.9% of Harsco group. BlueScope chairman Graham Lower emitters will get 66% for Richmond Mining. Managing The 10-year contracts include the Kraehe said in March the carbon free. The free permits are guaran- Director Max Nind of Richmond briquetting and micro-pelletizing of price had the potential to shut teed for five years, but will reduce Mining said Buena Vista mine is JSW’s iron and steelmaking by-prod- down the Australian steel industry annually. The Productivity expected to start operation in Q4 ucts at the massive Vijayanagar pro- in its current form within two Commission will review industry 2012. duction facility, where JSW plans to decades. Now, chief executive Paul compensation needs in 2014-15. Hebei Steel’s iron ore self-suffi- produce 10Mt/y of flat and long ciency rate is less than 20% as of products. 2010. The group plans to annually Harsco’s resource recovery technolo- add 5Mt to the amount of its self- gies will enable JSW to recover the Finex &2 for Posco sufficient iron ores, and gradually high-value iron content of its by- Posco broke ground on a new tion that opens the next generation bring the figure to 35% by 2015. products for re-use in the produc- KOR1.3tri ($1.2bn) plant in the for iron-making, enabling steel- In a related development, Hebei tion of new steel and iron. southeastern city of Pohang. makers to use low-grade coal fines Steel has completed restructuring The facility will be the compa- that account for about 80% of the nine privately-owned local miners South African acquisition ny’s third plant to employ Finex world’s iron ore deposits. in Dawan mining areas in Laiyuan SMS Siemag has bought a majority technology jointly developed by “The eco-friendly process will county in Hebei province. Hebei share in South African group Metix. Posco and Siemens VAI. Finex is also dramatically reduce pollution Steel expects to mine 1Mt of iron Metix has been involved in plant more environmentally friendly and from the production process,” ore in Laiyuan between 2011-15. construction and equipment sup- cost effective than conventional Posco chairman Chung Joon-yang Source: China Metals plies for the ferroalloy industry for steelmaking methods. said. e-mail [email protected] 10 years. Its products and services The newest plant, which will be The Finex method enables cover planning and supply of equip- completed by July 2013, will have a Posco to use cheaper raw materials ment and plants, especially for the 2Mt/y capacity, which would ele- such as iron ore fines and non-cok- production of ferrochromium and vate Posco’s Finex output capacity ing coal to produce steel products Chinese ferromanganese. to 4.1Mt or 25% of its total crude that are comparable in quality to SMS Siemag has a strategy of steel capacity that year. those produced from the blast-fur- expanding in the field of sub- “Finex technology is an innova- nace process. output up merged-arc furnace technology for the production of ferroalloys, Si China’s steel mills defied credit metal, nonferrous metals and calci- tightening, razor-thin margins and um carbide for new plants and Tata reaches £130M a possible power supply crunch to revamps.