Western Superconducting Technologies Co. Ltd., (WST), headquartered in Xian, in Shaanxi Province, China, has successfully put into service a 63/80-MN two-column high-speed push-down open-die forging press supplied by SMS group. The supply also included two integrated railbound 25-ton manipulators and a mobile eight-ton loading and unloading manipulator. The Chinese company is now able to flexibly manufacture various high-quality products for its customers from the aerospace industry, for example. The new high-speed press forges extremely precisely and reliably, with a maximum press force of 63 MN and an upsetting force of 80 MN. Thanks to the Continue reading
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Orano investit 30 millions d’euros dans un Centre d’innovation en métallurgie extractive à Bessines-sur-Gartempe (FR)

Le lancement de la construction du Centre d’innovation en métallurgie extractive (Cime) d’Orano débute le 10 septembre avec la pose de la première pierre de ce bâtiment qui s’étendra sur 8 300 m² et trois niveaux à la sortie de Bessines-sur-Gartempe (Haute-Vienne). Sa construction qui représente un investissement de 30 millions d’euros va être réalisée à 80 % par des entreprises locales. Le Cime vaContinue reading
Bouzonville : l’usine Manoir Industries ravagée par un incendie (FR)
Un incendie d’une très grande ampleur a ravagé jeudi 29 août l’usine Manoir Industries de Bouzonville (Moselle). Les dégâts sont très importants. A priori, ce sont plus de 180 salariés qui se retrouvent sans outil de production.
Le toit de l’usine s’est effondré. Le feu s’est déclaré en fin d’après-midi chez Manoir Industries à Bouzonville (Moselle) jeudi 29 août 2019.
Beaucoup de salariés sont là depuis très longtemps et ils sont profondément touchés par ce qui s’est passé
– Laurent Dumas, directeur général de Manoir Industries –
Aucune victime n’est à déplorer.
Les unités de production sont touchées. Plus de 1000 m² de bâtiment du site sont détruit. “On ne connaît pas l’origine précise du sinistre mais ce qui est certain c’est qu’il n’y a aucun blessé. Les personnes ont été évacuées et vendredi 30 août nous sommes en cellule de crise pour faire un état des lieuxde la situation”, dit Laurent Dumas, directeur général de Manoir Industries.
“Maintenant, on doit voir ce qu’il convient de faire pour les salariés, les clients et les fournisseurs”.
L’entreprise est spécialisée dans l’usinage de pièces forgées et usinées pour les transmissions éoliennes. L’ensemble du personnel de Manoir Industries
Saarsthal Intends to switch to short-time working for 3 months from 1 September (German)
Saarstahl AG intends to switch to short-time working for three months from 1 September. The company informed its employees about this on Friday. The reason for this is a drastic decline in steel demand. The plants are correspondingly weak capacity, said the Völklinger company. The reason for this was above all the slumps in the automotive industry and in mechanical engineering. In addition, however, Saarstahl is also causing a sharp rise in imports from abroad into the EU.
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Die Saarstahl AG will ab 1. September für drei Monate auf Kurzarbeit umstellen. Darüber hat das Unternehmen am Freitag seine Mitarbeiter informiert. Anlass dafür ist ein drastischer Rückgang der Stahlnachfrage. Die Anlagen seien entsprechend schwach
US Moline Forge on solid ground (US)
Founded in September 1915 as Moline Forging and Manufacturing Co., its sole purpose was producing artillery shell forgings for the Allied Forces during World War I in Europe. Over the course of that conflict, the company turned out between five and six million shell forgings on large mechanical forging machines known as “Bulldozers” built by Williams, White. Moline Forging and Manufacturing Co. began operations in the South Shop of Williams, White & Co. As business grew, the directors looked to the postwar period, purchasing a two-block plant site further east in Moline. Construction on the new plant began in 1917, and was occupied in 1918. By the time hostilities ceased in Europe, Moline Forging and Manufacturing Co. had already developed an additional customer base which was not military related. As the company transitioned to fully domestic production, heavily weighted with farm equipment business, the name was changed in 1920 to Moline Forge, Inc.
MOLINE — If you’ve lived in the Illinois Quad-Cities for a few years, you likely have driven by Moline Forge on Fourth Avenue in Moline. And you may have even wondered what it is. It’s eight generally hot buildings covering 80,000 square feet of space where steel is
Vulcan : Australia’s lead supplier of Engineering Steels and Alloys (US)

Vulcan Engineering Steels is Australia’s lead supplier of Engineering Steels and Alloys to engineering machine shops both nationally and internationally, manager Bruce Gregory says. Vulcan Engineering Steels purchased Interlloy Pty Ltd in March 2018. “Vulcan continues to provide competitively priced product backed by an extensive stock holding, mill certification, state of the art processing equipment and next day delivery all being part of the package,” Mr Gregory said. The Albury facility has been managed by Bruce Gregory since its inception in 2004 and is now a steadily growing business that currently employs 10 people from the Albury-Wodonga community, servicing and supporting the local engineering industry. A recent addition to the Vulcan Albury stock offering is an extensive range of Stainless Steel products including: sheet, plate, treadplate, flats, angles, RHS, SHS, tube, pipe, flanges, fittings and
Slovakian’s forgings company ZTS Metalurg under bankruptcy (US)
The company has focused since its establishment on products for use in the defence industry, ZTS METALURG, a.s. has many years of experience and a long tradition in the production of open and closed-die drop forgings as well as steel castings, cast steel and alloy steels.
The Czechoslovakian group decided to stop production at ZTS Metalurg in Dubenika Nad and Om. The company’s extinction ends on June 30 with more than 100 tribal employees. A spokesman for the news group Andrei Chirtak announced it. “Several dozen employees have the option to switch to Slovak company MSM Holdings, which is also part of the Czech group, or to Ostrava-based heavy machinery Vítkovice.Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly how Continue reading
Framatome invests €12.6 million on its site of Ugine and inaugurates its new VAR furnace
On Wednesday April 10, the new VAR furnace was inaugurated in the presence of government representatives, elected officials, partners from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and employees. After two and a half years of work, the Ugine Framatome site (Fuel BU) is now equipped with an additional VAR (vacuum arc remelting) furnace and a new control cabin, allowing various site alloys to be melted using state-of-the art equipment.
POSCO Chairman visits overseas units (US)
POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo, right, shakes hands with an employee at PT Krakatau POSCO in Indonesia, Monday. PT Krakatau is a steel mill set up jointly by POSCO and Indonesia’s PT Krakatau Steel. Courtesy of POSCO
POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo embarked on a tour to the group’s overseas units in Southeast Asian countries, marking his first visit to the outside units as the steelmaking group’s chairman, POSCO said Tuesday. As the first destination of the trip, Choi visited PT Krakatau POSCO, a POSCO steel mill in Indonesia, on Monday and will stay overseas until Friday to drop by a rebar manufacturing body in Vietnam and a Myanmar gas field developed byContinue reading
La spectaculaire réussite d’Aperam Alloys (FR)
