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Steel Construction and Cladding
Steeling for yet more change
By: Terence Creamer 21st March 2005 Change, it appears, is the only constant for South Africa’s largest steel producer, now Mittal Steel South Africa, but formerly Ispat Iscor and, before that, simply Iscor. →
Steeling for yet more change
By: Terence Creamer 18th March 2005 From its name through to customer relations and product mix, everything is set to change again at SA's largest steelmaker →
New steel grade increases construction-sector choice
By: elizabeth rebelo 18th March 2005 The introduction of a new-grade steel by South Africa’s second-largest steel maker, Highveld Steel & Vanadium, could be a platform for challenging the mainstream construction method, especially with regard to local high-rise buildings. →
R300-million rehab for major route
By: Nicola Mawson 11th March 2005 This year sees the start of a R300-million maintenance and rehabilitation programme along the N3 freeway. →
China’s white-hot economy a boon for steel industry
By: Nicola Mawson 11th March 2005 Internationally, there can be no argument that the steel trade is booming on the back of China’s increasing demand as a result of what has been referred to as its ‘white-hot economy’. →
Govt, steelmaker mum on pricing talks
By: Martin Czernowalow 11th March 2005 Steel price negotiations, between the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and steel giant Ispat Iscor, continued yesterday, but a government official said no information would be released about the progress of the talks until an agreement is reached. →
DTI seeks to fast-track steel talks
By: Martin Czernowalow 9th March 2005 South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will meet with representatives of Ispat Iscor tomorrow to continue discussions around a 'developmental pricing' model for steel, a senior government official said yesterday. →
'Speed' is critical for steel-industry survival
4th March 2005 The business environment is changing rapidly and so, certainly, is the steel industry. →
Global steel market forecast to remain bullish this year
By: Nicola Mawson 4th March 2005 Steel has become a much-discussed topic recently, with pricing policies grabbing the headlines locally, while, internationally, all the buzz is about China and its insatiable demand for the product. →
Sound amplifier engineering with steel
By: Nicola Mawson 4th March 2005 Steel has a rather interesting application when it comes to sound engineering. →
New era for roadside construction
By: Nicola Mawson 4th March 2005 Road-side construction entered a new dimension in February 7, when the first shipment of the Barrierguard 800 arrived at Armco Superlite’s Isando, East Rand, branch. →
Transporter increases vehicle size as milk demand soars
By: Nicola Mawson 4th March 2005 A surge in demand for milk led Clover to increase the size of the vehicles transporting bulk milk. →
Cape stainless-steel industry is buoyant and future looks bright
4th March 2005 The stainless-steel industry in the Cape region is buoyant and the future looks bright, say Metalquip MD Gideon Hugo. →
Chock liners in steel roll mills reduce downtime and working costs
4th March 2005 In February this year, Poly Hi Solidur SA, in cooperation with a big South African steel manufacturer, announced that it had successfully developed a range of chock wear blocks, complete with wing liners for use in steel mills. →
Air-separation plant delivered to Chinese steel company
4th March 2005 Technology group Linde and Shanghai’s Baosteel group, the largest steel-production company in China, have signed a contract for the delivery of an air-separation plant. →
Big steel-sector BEE deal
4th March 2005 Newly-formed black economic-empowerment (BEE) firm Mediro Industrial Holdings has bought a 19% stake in Kulungile Metals and its wholly-owned trading divisions – Baldwins Steel and Stainless Steel & Aluminium Corporation (Stalcor). →
Garsin Engineering
4th March 2005 Garsin Engineering is a steel tube merchant and manufacturer of drawn round, square and rectangular steel tubes. →
Metals firm enlarges its empowered base
By: Zonika Botha 4th March 2005 South Africa’s leading metals group Kulungile Metals has brought a new black-economic empowerment (BEE) partner on broad, bringing the company’s total BEE shareholding to 49% →
New stronger same-priced structural steel expected to challenge concrete
By: Martin Creamer 4th March 2005 The new stronger but same-priced structural steel announced this week is expected to have design engineers and architects reaching for their calculators. →
Stronger structural steel to hit SA market soon
By: Martin Creamer 4th March 2005 The new stronger but same-priced structural steel announced yesterday is expected to have design engineers and architects reaching for their calculators. →
Fledgling firms drive demand for smaller construction machines
By: abdul cook 18th February 2005 Below-20-t multipurpose utility machines for the building and construction industry, classified by Caterpillar as general construction (GC) products, have dramatically gained in popularity in South Africa. →
Giant sees steel-price-cycle paradigm shift
By: Martin Czernowalow 15th February 2005 Global steel demand, driven mainly by China's economic boom, is still in its infancy and is likely to rise substantially in the future, despite the Chinese government's interventions to slow the country's phenomenal growth, Africa's biggest steel producer said last week. →
Tariff review adds to steel-price pressure
By: Terence Creamer 11th February 2005 The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa’s (Itac’s) review of the five per cent duty on South Africa’s steel tariffs is well advanced and the investigation should be completed within two months. →
Developmental steel price model closer
By: Terence Creamer 11th February 2005 Steel producer Ispat Iscor - soon to be renamed Mittal South Africa in line with an international rebranding of the world's largest steel group to which it belongs - says it has submitted all the necessary price-comparison information required by the Department of Trade and Industry and expects a... →
SA stainless mill budgets 10% output growth in 2005
By: Terence Creamer 4th February 2005 South Africa’s only integrated stainless-steel producer, Columbus Stainless, plans to consolidate a pattern of incremental growth now that its R1,1-billion cold-rolling mill expansion, which was initiated in 2002, has come to an end. →
Steel-price talks slow as Ispat Iscor withholds key information
By: Terence Creamer 25th January 2005 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is still awaiting confidential technical information from steel giant Ispat Iscor relating to prices and costs. →
Coega sand bypass among firm's big contracts
By: Nelendhre Moodley 14th January 2005 Johannesburg-based steel-fabrication and construction company Concor Engineering is involved in three large projects. →
A world first for Cape Town’s ship-repair industry
By: Nelendhre Moodley 14th January 2005 The ultra-deepwater drill ship Pride Africa, designed to drill for oil in water depths of more than 3 000 m and drilling depths of 4 500 m, was dry-docked in Cape Town during November. →
Shopping-centre projects galore for steel fabricator
By: Nelendhre Moodley 14th January 2005 Johannesburg-based steel-construction and -fabrication company Cosira International is involved in numerous shopping-centre projects. →
Erection of Sasol's R45m warehouses under way
By: Nelendhre Moodley 14th January 2005 Steel-fabrication specialist Genrec Engineering has been contracted by Technip South Africa to fabricate and erect three warehouses for the Sasol plant in Secunda. →
BEE firm spreads its wings
By: Nelendhre Moodley 14th January 2005 Steel giant Shosholoza Steel has ,for the first time, expanded out of Gauteng and opened a new branch in Richards Bay. →
Still no steel-pricing deal between SA and LNM
By: Martin Czernowalow 5th January 2005 The South African government has still not reached an agreement with global steel group LNM Holdings, through local subsidiary Ispat Iscor, regarding a new domestic steel-pricing model, but a senior government official said a deal could be clinched within the next few months. →
Domestic carbon steel sales up 23% in 2004
4th January 2005 South Africa's total domestic carbon steel sales increased by 23,7% during the first nine months of 2004, compared with the first nine months of 2003, the South African Iron and Steel Institute (Saisi) said in its latest quarterly statistical newsletter. →
Steel industry to raise support for secondary exporters
10th December 2004 The South African steel industry has announced that it will boost its financial support to the country’s exporters of secondary steel products. →
Cape Town steel firm appeals incentive refusal
By: Martin Czernowalow 7th December 2004 A Cape Town producer of steel billets and reinforcing bars has lodged an appeal against the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) decision not to approve the company's expansion as a strategic industrial project (SIP). →
Steel industry to raise support for secondary exporters
26th November 2004 The South African steel industry has announced that it will boost its financial support to the country's exporters of secondary steel products. →
SA mulls scrapping of antidumping duty on Russian steel
By: jenny furness 25th November 2004 The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has made the interim decision to recommend to the Minister of Trade and Industry, Mandisi Mpahlwa, that the antidumping duties on hot-rolled plates and sheets of steel originating in or imported from the Russian Federation... →
Now chemicals, aluminium, stainless pricing comes under the spotlight
By: Terence Creamer 23rd November 2004 The South African government is broadening its intervention into the controversial issue of import parity pricing (IPP) beyond carbon steel, with studies now beginning into the influence of the pricing model on the chemicals, stainless-steel and aluminium sectors. →
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