Steel production slumps again in 2025
"2026 must be the year of securing the location!"
Steel production at crisis level in 2025: demand weak, import pressure high. Association head Rippel calls for 2026 to be the year to secure the location.
Economical machining
Economically efficient production is crucial for a company's profitability. In the case of metal cutting, safe and predictable processes and production environments are crucial: firstly, to ensure maximum production output in the long term, and secondly, to keep production costs as low as possible.
read more...HPC milling cutter for high-alloy stainless steels
Hoffmann has expanded the Garant Master product family for high-performance machining to include milling cutters for high-alloy stainless steels in accordance with ISO M.
read more...Steel for additive manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is well on its way out of its niche. New materials are also making this possible. Deutsche Edelstahlwerke has now launched two metal powders for 3D printing: the bainitic special steel Bainidur AM and the austenitic steel Printdur HSA.
read more...Steel to become CO2-neutral
Steel is considered the "material of life". Whether in mobility, architecture, mechanical engineering, furniture, screws or cutlery - life without steel would be hard to imagine. The problem is that the production of steelreleases a lot ofCO2 - the steel industry is responsible for around 7 percent of globalCO2 emissions. This is now set to change.
read more...Dr. Florian Geiger becomes CEO of Steeltec
Dr. Florian Geiger will become the new CEO of bright steel producer Steeltec on January 1, 2020. He succeeds Gerd Münch, who is leaving the company after 14 years.
read more...One of the largest drop structures in the world
ZwickRoell has supplied a drop weight tester for impact tests to the Gövert testing laboratory in Essen with a height of around 9 meters, a weight of more than 10 tons and a drop energy of 120,000 joules. These data make it one of the most powerful drop weight testers in the world.
read more...Tata Steel: Karl Haider appointed Chief Commercial Officer
Karl Haider takes over the role of Chief Commercial Officer for the European business units of Tata Steel. He succeeds Henrik Adam, who was appointed CEO of Tata Steel in Europe in June.
read more...Powder for additive manufacturing
Steel material for 3D printing
In the NRW lead market project AddSteel, new, functionally adapted steel materials for additive manufacturing will be developed over the next three years. A central component of the project is the qualification of the developed materials for the metallic 3D printing process Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen.
read more...Digital production environment
Steel producer relies on PSI for digital transformation
PSI has been commissioned by the Slovenian steel producer SIJ Group to implement a new digital manufacturing environment. PSImetals 5.18 will replace two legacy systems in the steel mill and in further processing.
read more...For manual welding of steel
Fronius Perfect is expanding its TPS/i welding machine platform with the Steel Edition version, which has been designed for manual welding of steel. The modular welding systems have different steel characteristics for both standard and pulsed arcs.
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