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Restarting a Blast Furnace – A team challenge
Did you know that restarting a blast furnace is a complex technical operation that requires some time, a skilled team and a lot of knowledge sharing. boldspirit spoke to Jean-Louis Lebonvallet, a member of our CTO-Technology team and an iron making...
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Stainless innovation in Building
Within the last 2 years, we noticed erratic fluctuations of raw materials such as nickel entering into our main stainless grade chemical composition. The substitution of stainless by other material was a threat due to a loss of price advantage and...
Category: Segment news
HZM/AZ Steel Wall System
Major ports around the world continue to improve their installations in order to accommodate the berthing of the new bulk carrier and larger container vessels. Quay walls tend to get deeper and deeper. Therefore, all the design engineering companies...
Category: Segment news
Blast furnace anecdotes: songs and nicknames
Blast Furnace B at ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Works used to be known as "Bettie". Bettie-furnace was commissioned in December 1951 and at that time was one of the most modern furnaces in South Africa. During its existence the furnace produced...
Category: Blast from the past
Those old soldiers of the steel industry
At the moment a huge amount of knowledge exchange is occurring within our Group about blast furnaces, what happens when they are idle, what happens when they start up again and how the technology can be improved in the future - not only in terms of...
Category: Blast from the past
Bill Scotting talks about production
The following is an excerpt from a larger interview which was conducted with Bill Scotting, EVP Head of Strategy, on a series of questions regarding production. The full interview appeared in the July/August issue of ArcelorMittal's internal...
Category: bold business
A few cultural facts about Luxembourg
Since our site in the spotlight this issue was Esch Belval, we thought we would add a little additional information about activities going on in Luxembourg...
Category: Site in the spotlight
Financial response to the crisis
While in-depth financial information for ArcelorMittal can be found at our corporate website ( www.arcelormittal.com), we here at boldspirit thought it would be helpful to our colleagues around the world to take a look back at all the financial...
Category: bold business
Luxembourg's steel giants
With the stopping of the last blast furnace in Esch-Belval in July 1997, a chapter of the Luxembourg steel industry was firmly closed. Yet as they say, ‘when one door closes, another one opens', and so it is with this industrial site. In...
Category: Blast from the past
Health and Safety Day at ArcelorMittal Differdange
On April 28, our Group celebrated its 3rd global Health and Safety Day. Workshops and other activities were organised locally at plants around the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as ArcelorMittal played a leadership role in this national event. Our site...
Category: Site in the spotlight
Biodiversity: peregrine falcons elect residence in Belval
During a plant visit, ArcelorMittal colleagues from the Belval site discovered a young falcon helplessly sitting around on the plant grounds. They took it to a nursing station for wild animals where the local specialist recognised it as peregrine...
Category: Site in the spotlight
A Day in a Life... José Pinheiro, ArcelorMittal Belval
José Pinheiro, 37 years old, is foreman at the electric furnace of ArcelorMittal Belval, in Luxembourg. Born in Portugal, José moved to Luxembourg when he was only 2 years old. boldspirit was invited to share one day in his life, and here is what we witnessed...
Category: Site in the spotlight
In the Field - CR in India (Chennai), with Total Offer Processing
TOP (Total Offer Processing) is an operational business unit of Distribution Solutions, born over acquisitions in the last 4 years as well as organic growth. This important segment in the ArcelorMittal Group provides a global offer in steel work...
Category: Segment news
Distribution Solutions: building a future together
Distribution Solutions was brought into being on March 1 2009. Why the decision to create this new organisation? Philippe Darmayan - "The birth of the segment Distribution Solutions responds to our need to evolve from a constellation of small...
Category: Segment news
Sustainable steel – ULCOS is working on it
ULCOS stands for Ultra-Low CO2 Steelmaking.
Category: Steelmaking

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