2024-02-21 Liberty Steel relaunches No.5 blast furnace at Galati plant
Feb. 21, 2024 - The No.5 blast furnace of Liberty Steel's Romanian Galati plant has recovered its operation from February. The mentioned blast furnace, which shut down at the beginning of October 2023 and once tended to reboot in the middle of last December yet failed, owns an annual production capacity of more th...
2024-01-09 LIBERTY restarts part of the rolling capacity of Hungarian Dunaferr
Jan. 9, 2024 - LIBERTY Steel has announced the restart of part of its rolling capacity at the recently acquired Hungarian steel plant Dunaferr (LIBERTY Dunaújváros). As part of its production program for 2024, Dunaferr has resumed operation of rolling mills and a galvanizing line that produces gal...
2023-02-17 Liberty Galati to restart blast furnace No. 5 in March
Feb. 17, 2023 - Romania-based Liberty Galati will restart its blast furnace No. 5 in the second part of March after it had been shut down for maintenance and upgrades since December 2022. The facility is capable of 2 million mt production per year. Additionally, according to sources, Liberty Galati has started to co...
2022-07-26 Liberty Ostrava to temporarily idle BF No.2 for maintenance
Jul. 26, 2022 - Czech Republic-based steelmaker Liberty Ostrava has announced that it will temporarily idle its blast furnace No. 2 for the repair and upgrade works. Repair and upgrade program, which will cost CZK 233 million (9.6 million $), will increase the stability and reliability of the furnace an...
2022-07-11 LIBERTY makes historic investment in Ostrava’s GREENSTEEL transformation
Jul. 8, 2022 - At a special event held today at the Ostrava steelworks, LIBERTY signed a contract with Danieli, a leading global manufacturer of plant and machinery, for the delivery of two state-of-the-art hybrid electric arc furnaces at the centre of Ostrava’s GREENSTEEL transformation plan. The CZK 8.6 billion (E...
2022-04-14 Liberty Galati hits record production levels in 2021
Apr. 14, 2022 - Romania-based steel producer Liberty Galati has announced that its blast furnace No. 5 produced 2.1 million mt of hot metal in 2021, hitting a record since its installation in 1978. The company’s total liquid steel production was 2.35 million mt in the given year, due to a range of operational and m...
2022-01-17 Liberty Liège to restart rolling mills at Flémalle and Tilleur
Jan. 17, 2022 - UK-based Liberty Steel’s subsidiary Liberty Liège has stated that it has received the funding required to carry out the first step of the transformation plan for its Flémalle and Tilleur plants in Belgium from Liberty Steel Group. The plants are expected to be restarted by mid-February thanks to the...
2021-12-06 GFG Alliance announces restart of LIBERTY Steel USA’s Georgetown, South Carolina plant
Dec. 6, 2021 - LIBERTY Steel USA is to reopen its Georgetown, South Carolina rod mill as strong market conditions enable a sustainable restart following a period of care and maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic. LIBERTY Steel Georgetown will resume production in mid-January, enabling 65 employees to return to wor...
2021-06-18 LIBERTY Galați blast furnace slag used to produce low carbon footprint cement
Jun. 18, 2021 - LIBERTY Galați has for the first time exported 50,000 tonnes of blast furnace slag, a by-product of the steel making process carried out at the plant, so that it can be converted into very low carbon cement at a specialist factory in France. A ship loaded with granulated blast furnace ...
2021-05-24 China's Jingye Group eyeing Liberty Steel UK plants
May 24, 2021 - Chinese steel producer Jingye Group, owner of British Steel, the UK’s second largest steelmaker, is now eyeing Liberty Steel’s UK plants, UK media reported May 19. According to The Telegraph and Financial Times, Jingye Group has told the UK government that it would be interested in parts...
2021-04-23 Liberty Galati reaffirms investment plans in Romania
Apr. 23, 2021 - Romanian Ziarul Financiar reported that GFG’s Executive Director & Liberty Galati board member Mr Ajay Aggarwal said that all investment plans at the Galati plant remain standing and that the group's current situation is now under financial pressure, it will not affect the activity at L...
2021-01-22 LIBERTY Steel Group strengthens its Board
Jan. 20, 2021 - LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, today announces that it has strengthened its Board with the appointment of Denise Timns as an executive director and Monica Middleton as a non-executive director. This continues LIBERTY’s efforts to bro...
2021-01-19 LIBERTY Steel restarts Huta Częstochowa Electric Arc Furnace
Jan. 18, 2021 - LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, today announces that it has restarted the Huta Częstochowa electric arc furnace (EAF) in another significant step in LIBERTY’s ambitious plans to revitalise the plant. The Huta’s EAF has been idled since October ...
2021-01-12 LIBERTY Steel takes on first plant in Poland
Jan. 11, 2021 - LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, today announces that it has taken over the lease for Huta Częstochowa, one of Poland’s largest steel mills. The restart of production has already taken place with the first plates having been rolled by the p...
2020-12-16 Liberty Steel to invest further £60m at Rotherham plant
Dec. 15, 2020 - Liberty Steel, part of GFG Alliance, has committed to a programme of new investments at its South Yorkshire GREENSTEEL production hub in Rotherham to supply the transport, defence, and construction sectors as part of the UK government’s Build Back Better plan. The investments, totalling more than...
2020-10-17 LIBERTY Steel Group makes an offer to acquire thyssenkrupp Steel Europe
Oct. 17, 2020 - LIBERTY Steel Group, part of sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has today announced that it has made a non-binding indicative offer (NBIO) as part of a thyssenkrupp-led process to acquire the steel activities of thyssenkrupp. LIBERTY Steel is a global steel and mining business with annual reven...
2020-01-11 Liberty Steel to cut UK workforce
Jan. 11, 2020 - Liberty Steel Group has undertaken a review of its UK business in response to challenging market conditions and a lingering reduction in demand for UK steel products. In light of this, the company has decided to reduce its workforce at certain plants to match sustainable production forecasts. The g...
2019-10-11 Liberty plans multi-million-dollar investment to create melt shop at Georgetown steelworks
Oct. 11, 2019 - Liberty Steel USA is to make a major capital investment in its liquid steel production facilities at Georgetown, South Carolina, to boost output substantially and secure the long-term future of the mill, which it re-opened just over a year ago. The company, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s global ...
2019-09-27 Liberty's Peoria wire rod plant takes top safety award
Sep. 27, 2019 - Liberty Steel and Wire Peoria were named as the 2019 winner of the prestigious Don B Daily Achievement in Safety Award, from the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) in recognition of its ‘impressive commitment’ to improving safety performance at the company’s 1,100-worker Illinois plant. ...
2019-09-25 Liberty fires starting gun on new pan-European steel network
Sep. 25, 2019 - International metals and industrial entrepreneur Sanjeev Gupta pledged to invest €400 million over five years to build Liberty Steel’s newly acquired European steelworks into a major force in the global steel industry. Liberty has set a goal of expanding sales at the plants by 50% by 2022. ...
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