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Industry Updates

 ASM International 2020

Alloyed and Taniobis Collaborate to Develop Advanced Titanium and Refractory Alloy Metal Powders Alloyed Group, London, and German company Taniobis, announce a collaboration to identify, develop, produce, and implement innovative high-quality titanium and refractory-alloy metal powders for advanced manufacturing applications, including additive manufacturing The partnership is said to enable a full end-to-end solution for

‘‘The Alloys By Design (ABD) platform, coupled with Taniobis’ long-standing and world-leading expertise with tantalum and niobium materials, has the potential to open up some new and very exciting application areas for advanced manufacturing applications,’’ says Michael Holmes, managing director of Alloyed. ‘‘This capability together with the Betatype technology stack for adding performance to critical components makes this alliance even more powerful. We are excited to bring these developments to fruition in due course.’’ According to Katarzyna Kosowski, who heads Corporate Business Development & Communication at Taniobis, ‘‘By collaborating with the experts at Alloyed and their exceptional ABD platform, we are extending our reach and capabilities into new and innovative areas for advanced manufacturing, and particularly for additive manufacturing.’’ For more information: www.alloyed.com and www.taniobis. com.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Acquires Arcelor Mittal USA for Its Automotive and Other Markets

Alloyed and Taniobis will collaborate on the advancement of refractory alloy metal powders for additive manufacturing (Courtesy of Taniobis)

the material development process, including material analysis and qualification, material production, component design and performance, and also into pilot production. Alloyed and Taniobis will work on a broad spectrum of projects, some with third parties, for a range of applications across the medical, aerospace, and e-mobility industries.

Cleveland Cliffs Inc. announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ArcelorMittal S.A., in which ClevelandCliffs will acquire substantially all of the operations of ArcelorMittal USA LLC and its subsidiaries for approximately $1.4 billion. Upon closure of the transaction, Cleveland-Cliffs will be the largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America, with combined shipments of approximately 17 million net tons in 2019. The company will also be the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America, with 28 million long tons of annual capacity. Lourenco Goncalves, chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, will lead the expanded organization. ‘‘Steelmaking is a business where production volume, operational diversification, dilution of fixed costs, and technical expertise

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matter above all else,’’ he says, ‘‘and this transaction achieves all of these. ArcelorMittal is a world-class organization that we have long admired as our customer and our partner, and we know for a fact that they have taken good care of their