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On the18th of December, Moscow hosted the final meeting of this year's Metal-Expo Organising Committee. The committee comprises heads of industry ministries, unions and associations of metallurgy, machine building, construction and other industries, as well as research institutes. The experts discussed the events of the last autumn Metals Week and the preparation of the summer industrial exhibitions - Steel Structures'2025, Metallurgy.Russia'2025, Litmash.Russia'2025 and Pipes.Russia'2025, which ...

The final issue of the year "Metal Supply and Sales" magazine has been published. The edition contains a number of materials on the results of the 30th anniversary International Industrial Exhibition Metal-Expo' 2024 , which this year saw high levels of business activity and record attendance. The event also saw the publication of photo reports from the metallurgists' forum site, interviews with participants, reviews of the most interesting business events and competitions. The market situation ...

During the autumn Metals Week in Moscow, professional photographers were on hand to capture the key moments of the business programme and Metal-Expo' 2024 stands, providing a visual record of the most significant events in the metallurgical calendar. Following the editing and structuring of the photographic material by days, approximately 3,000 images from the Metal-Expo site are now available for download in the cloud. The photo archive is likely to contain images that will resonate with all ...

More than 30 thousand visitors - managers and specialists of companies from all sectors of economy, construction, fuel and energy complexes - visited the exhibition and held fruitful negotiations with the participants of the Forum during the 4 days of the exhibition. This year 875 companies were represented at Metal-Expo'2024 , including 467 from Russia, 368 from China and 38 from other fourteen countries. More than 5 thousand managers and specialists worked at their stands. The final day of ...

Severstal was the first in Russia to produce a new sheet piling solution for hydraulic structures, transport and civil engineering - cold-formed sheet piling. The product is marketed under the Grani brand. One of the main advantages of the new type of sheet piling is lower metal intensity compared to alternative solutions due to constant profile thickness and increased width, which allows to reduce the weight of supplied structures by up to 30%. The piles are manufactured by cold forming (cold ...

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has begun operating a machine learning–based digital system that helps workers control the oxygen levels supplied to its blast furnaces. The system recommends the optimal oxygen levels for the hot blast air in order to improve blast furnace efficiency during the production of cast iron. Until recently, the blast furnace operator made decisions based solely on readings of discrete data. In a dynamic environment, however, those readings may not always be ...