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This website is published by Canadian Overseas Trade Inc. (COTI), a Canadian federal corporation with its head office at 7175 rue Michelet, Suite 10, Montréal (Québec) H1S 2L8, Canada. The corporate contact is Rezak Ghellab, President and CEO.
Corporation number: 1070296-0 · Business number: 761282714RC0001 · NEQ: 1173604753. Email: info@coticanada.com.
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The images come from third-party sources or were supplied by COTI. Available authors, sources, licences and adaptations are consolidated below. The facilities shown are not presented as belonging to COTI; visible trademarks do not imply affiliation.
Image information
A photograph licence is not a product or supplier certification. Images with unconfirmed commercial rights must not be treated as cleared for commercial publication.


Gelsenkirchen-Erle, leiding langs de Emscher IMG 8418 2018-09-01 12.05.jpg
Michielverbeek · CC BY-SA 4.0






































Illuminated drilling rig in the desert
aka4ajax · CC BY 3.0
Facilities surrounded by sand dunes
kadodokadikadodo · CC BY 3.0
Aerial view of facilities and sand dunes
kadodokadikadodo · CC BY 3.0


Tetris L · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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KME — Advanced Mould Technology · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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European Commission, European Coal and Steel Community · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lechler — official descaling-nozzle product photograph · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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GrafTech — official electrode photograph · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Borvan53 · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Borvan53 · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Site officiel · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Danieli / Morgårdshammar — public guide catalogue · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Danieli / Morgårdshammar — public guide catalogue · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Site officiel · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Vesuvius — public LTC system brochure · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Vesuvius — public slide-gate refractory brochure · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Vesuvius — public slide-gate refractory brochure · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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KME — Advanced Mould Technology · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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KME — Advanced Mould Technology · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Chris Hunkeler from Carlsbad, California, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Site officiel · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Photographie du site officiel · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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American Cutting Edge — official shear-blade product photograph · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Cdang · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Vesuvius — public slide-gate refractory brochure · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Bosch Rexroth — official press photograph · Rights reserved — permission required before commercial publication.
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Standards logos
Logos are shown only to identify each standard; they remain the property of their owners.
Steel-service photographs
Photos are illustrative and do not depict COTI-owned plants. Product markings do not imply affiliation. Adaptations are limited to resizing, compression and display cropping, without AI generation.
- Night-time steelmaking installation (steel-night.jpg) : Aciarium. Original page · CC BY 4.0.
- Hot-steel rolling (steel-rolling.jpg) : Adrian Tync. Original page · CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Pouring liquid steel (steel-casting.jpg) : Dean Dunwody / U.S. Navy. Original page · Public domain.
- Stainless-steel industrial valve (steel-valve.jpg) : Heather Smith. Original page · CC BY 3.0.
- Oil-filtration unit (steel-filtration.jpg) : Shinoopz. Original page · CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Steel pipes (steel-pipes.jpg) : Seamless Steel Pipes. Original page · CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Bearing components (steel-bearings.jpg) : CEphoto, Uwe Aranas. Original page · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photos supplied for this private preview, commercial permission to be confirmed
Worldsteel's library permits free editorial use. No commercial right is claimed for these three images; publication on COTI's public website must be licensed or the images replaced with suitably licensed photographs. Worldsteel.
- Cold-rolling hall (steel-hall.jpg) : World Steel Association. Image library.
- Robot at an electric furnace (steel-eaf.jpg) : World Steel Association. Image library.
- Rolling-mill control room (steel-control.jpg) : World Steel Association. Image library.
Parts and equipment photographs
Homepage image supplied by COTI

The homepage image showing drilling installations and oil pumpjacks among dunes was supplied for the website by COTI. It is illustrative and does not identify a facility owned by COTI. Adaptation is limited to compression and display cropping.










