BAHRAIN’S Nass Contracting has been awarded a $13-million civil integration package on the upcoming United Steel Company (Sulb) plant, which will be Middle East’s first fully-integrated producer of medium and heavy beams and structural steel sections once operational. The $1.

AS WORK continues on the second phase of its expansion, Emirates Steel has set a new daily world record after the 150-tonne electric arc furnace (EAF) at the first phase of its steel making plant (SMP), exceeded design capacity for a furnace of its size. The EAF recorded 34 heats producing 5,197 tonnes of liquid steel and converting it into 4,993.

SSAB, a world leader in the development and production of advanced high-strength steel, says that the weight of mobile construction equipment has a direct bearing on carbon emissions, adding that lighter weight machines is the way forward towards environment-friendliness and higher productivity.

DLUBAL Engineering, a Germany-based software specialist, has recently launched a new multi-featured add-on module for steel design according to British Standards. The Steel BS software has been specifically written for the company’s 3D framework and 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) programmes, RSTAB and RFEM, respectively.

CANAM Asia, a joint venture between Zamil Steel and the Canadian Canam Group, has been increasingly using composite steel joists (CSJs) in many of its projects in the region, thus providing owners and occupants with benefits such as speedier and more efficient construction and larger column-free spaces.

ZAMIL Steel Industries’ recently-introduced HouseZ structures are poised to play a key role in redefining the prefabricated housing sector in the region, according to Hatem Turki, who has newly been promoted as general manager for the company’s prefabricated houses division.