Forging press rebuild
Alcoa has announced that funding has been approved for the complete repair and refurbishment of its 50,000tn forging press at the company’s Cleveland Works. Endurance metal cored electrode
Select-Arc Inc. now offers a specially manufactured carbon steel, composite metal cored electrode that delivers feedability and arc starting capability, and low residual slag. Fenix nickel project update
Canadian base-metals-miner HudBay Minerals has announced that they expect to make a final decision on whether to proceed with the Fenix nickel project, in Guatemala, around the middle of next year. SSW America 2010 call for papers
The Stainless Steel World America 2010 Conference & Expo steering committee is currently encouraging corrosion professionals from a variety of industries to start sending in paper proposals. Tata Steel to set up JV
Tata Steel Ltd is setting up a JV with New Millennium Capital Corp. for development of the Direct Shipment Ore project in Canada. 
Aecon Field Services, a division of Aecon Lockerbie Industrial, has been awarded two contracts totalling USD 125 million by Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd for work required to modify existing process units at their Regina Refinery in Saskatchewan, Canada. 
Braskem S.A., in association with the Mexican corporate group IDESA, has won the auction held by Pemex Gas, a state-owned Mexican company, for the acquisition of ethane, which will be used as feedstock for an integrated petrochemical project to be developed in that country (Project Ethylene XXI). 
With RathGibson’s newly installed 12-head mechanical polisher, the company now offers ultra-fine OD finishes for their finest precision engineered welded, welded and drawn, and seamless tubing.