With over 100 years of processing improvements, electric arc furnaces (EAFs) have become an efficient and reliable steelmaking alternative to integrated steelmaking.

Big River Steel (BRS) officially opened its new steelmaking plant in Osceola, Ark., on March 1. BRS will produce grades for pipelines, silicon steels for electronic sheets and advanced high-strength grades for the automotive industry in the U.S.

Oman-based Moon Iron & Steel Co. (MISCO) contracted SMS group to build a new rebar production minimill.

SMS group will supply a new steel complex to Acciaierie e Ferriere di Piombino SpA (AFERPI).

The SMS group is currently building an integrated, environmentally friendly complex for high-grade steel products and specialty steels for Big River Steel’s new facility in Mississippi County, Ark.

Tyasa, a Mexican steel producer, issued Primetals Technologies with the final acceptance certificate for a new mini-mill meltshop.

United States Steel Corp. announced that it will build a technologically advanced electric-arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking facility at its Fairfield Works in Birmingham, Ala.