Column: BHP joins the lengthening list of nickel price casualties
Indonesia's nickel production surge is challenging the West's ambitions of diversifying its critical metals supply chains.
Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from PT BlueScope Steel, Indonesia, to equip a new integrated zinc-coating and painting line. The processing line will be installed at the Cilegon site and is designed for an annual production of 175,000 metric tons of Zincalume® steel. The order value is in the two-digit million Euro range. The new facility is scheduled to start operating in the spring of 2010….more at siemens.com