The consortium between Arquus and Nexter, a company of KNDS; and the Organisation for Joint Armaments Cooperation (OCCAR) have signed the pre-design contract for the VBAE (Véhicule Blindé d’Aide à l’Engagement).

The upgraded meltshop of Gerdau now in operation at the Whitby steel mill, Ontario, Canada, is being commissioned.

The project, consisting of engineering and then supply, focused on meltshop capacity increase from 700,000 to 1,075,000 shtpy (step 1), and to 1,200,000 shtpy (step 2), by replacing an existing EAF with a Danieli UHP FastArc furnace.

The new, scrap-based FastArc furnace has a nominal tap weight of 137 sht, and features a 6500-mm-dia lower shell, 610-mm-dia electrodes, a 120-MVA transformer, and a chemical package.

Adani Green Energy has announced that it is setting up two new step-down subsidiaries.

The company’s Adani Saur Urja unit has established a wholly owned subsidiary, Adani Renewable Energy Fifty One. Its sister arm, Adani Renewable Energy Holding Nine, has set up Adani Renewable Energy Fifty Five.

“The main objective of the new subsidiaries is to generate, develop, transform, distribute, transmit, sell, supply any kind of power or electrical energy using wind energy, solar energy or other renewable sources of energy,” said the company.

Back in the 1940s, Nelson Ryzenga formed Ryzenga Welding and Steel Works in Holland, MI, working out of a small garage primarily making welding repairs for local farmers. By 1946, now taking on large-scale welding jobs, the business outgrew the garage. More and more, it was serving the agricultural-implement market. The company adopted a new name, Nelson Steel Products, Inc., in 1959, and through the 1960s the ag industry still constituted the lion’s share of work. Late in that decade, a U.S.