WAR! Zaporizhstal restarts blast furnace after 33 days of standstill
Metinvest Group, owned by Rinat Akhmetov and Vadym Novynskyi, has decided on the partial transition into work of Zaporizhstal’s shops
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Blast Furnace
Predicting blast furnace reline timing
Blast furnaces are highly complex pieces of equipment that involve the transformation, interaction and flow of liquids, solids and gasses
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Blast Furnace decarbonization technology for MMK
SMS group will improve the efficiency of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) processes with the use of ‘syngas’, a
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Paul Wurth completes reline of ArcelorMittal blast furnaces
Paul Wurth, part of SMS group, has completed its work relining the blast furnaces of ArcelorMittal’s Juiz de Fora steel
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Primetals to supply gas cleaning plant for blast furnace to Arcelormittal
Recently, ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. placed an order with Primetals Technologies and Mostostal Zabrze Realizacje Przemyslowe S.A. (MZRP) to supply a
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Primetals and thyssenkrupp to launch carbon-neutrality blast furnace technology
Primetals Technologies and thyssenkrupp have signed an exclusive, worldwide cooperation agreement which sees both parties commit to bringing the innovative
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MMK picks Paul Wurth for erection of new blast furnace
Paul Wurth has signed a contract with PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) for a new major investment project
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BlueScope Port Kembla blast furnace upgrade deemed critical
An AUD 700 million proposal to upgrade a Bluescope’s blast furnace at Port Kembla Steelworks has been declared Critical State
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Danieli Corus to modernize blast furnace at Severstal
Danieli Corus has signed a contract with Severstal to modernize Blast Furnace No 5 in Cherepovets in Russia on a
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AMSA steelmaking operations return to EBITDA profitability
VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa – ArcelorMittal South Africa, in its Trading Statement and Business Update for the year ended 31 December
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AMSA’s Vanderbijlpark Works restarts second blast furnace
ArcelorMittal South Africa’s Vanderbijlpark works has returned to full production, weeks ahead of a planned restart due to an upsurge
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EAF steelmaking can’t address decarbonisation challenge alone
Steel is manufactured by two main process routes (1) the integrated steelmaking process featuring the blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace (BF/BOF),
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Direct iron electrolysis will potentially play role in steelmaking
The steel industry itself has a major role to play in reducing its own emissions, which are around 7-10% of
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Retire blast furnaces or run them (low-)carbon efficient?
Through advancements in technology and process control, a modern blast furnace can operate continuously for at least half a century,
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AMSA to restart blast furnace as steel demand recovers
On the 16 July 2020, ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) said that, having reassessed its strategic asset footprint for 2020, the
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Coke oven gas compression and injection for HKM
With the aim to improve the CO2 balance of their steel plant operations located at Duisburg Huckingen in the Ruhr
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AMSA’s Newcastle blast furnace breaks down
Reuters reported that ArcelorMittal South Africa has declared force majeure after a breakdown of a blast furnace at its Newcastle
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Lowering carbon footprint: coke oven gas injection at tuyeres
In November 2019, ROGESA, Dillingen, Germany, awarded Paul Wurth with an order to design and supply coke oven gas injection
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ArcelorMittal: reducing fixed cost structure is critical
The largest African steelmaker, ArcelorMittal South Africa, says extraordinary cash management and cost control measures have been implemented to ensure
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US Steel plans to restart blast furnace on 1 August
U.S. Steel has announced it would restart its No 8 blast furnace at its Gary Works mill in Indiana, USA
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AMSA to idle blast furnace and arc furnace
In terms of the JSE Ltd. Listings Requirements, ArcelorMittal South Africa is required to publish a trading statement as soon
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Explosion rocks ArcelorMittal’s blast furnace plant
An explosion rocked the integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal steel plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana, on Thursday morning, igniting a fire and
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Plant Reline at Rogesa’s Dillingen No. 4 Blast Furnace
AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger) and Paul Wurth completed recently the modernisation of the slag granulation plant at Dillinger’s No.
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New staves for the rebuild of blast furnace in Taiwan
China Steel Machinery Company (CSMC), a subsidiary of Taiwanese steel producer China Steel Corporation (CSC) has placed an order with
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Wear-resistant copper staves for long-life blast furnace operation
Significant reduction in wear and unplanned maintenance, prolonging campaign lifetime Hexagonal inserts retain burden material and encourage the formation of
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World first blast furnace use of hydrogen
The Duisburg-based steel producer thyssenkrupp Steel has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working
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