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Blast Furnace

Refractories/Insulation South Africa 

Newcastle blast furnace: 5 382 carbon blocks, 14 047 refractory bricks

August 16, 2022August 13, 2022 admin 0 Comments ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, steelmaking

ArcelorMittal South Africa average capacity utilisation decreased from 59% in the 2021 comparable period to 42% in 2022 and should

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Europe Ferrous Metals 

WAR! Zaporizhstal restarts blast furnace after 33 days of standstill

April 12, 2022April 11, 2022 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Ukraine

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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Refractories/Insulation 

Predicting blast furnace reline timing

April 6, 2022April 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Ironmaking

Blast furnaces are highly complex pieces of equipment that involve the transformation, interaction and flow of liquids, solids and gasses

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Product News 

Blast Furnace decarbonization technology for MMK

January 20, 2022January 19, 2022 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, carbon-neutral steelmaking, SMS

SMS group will improve the efficiency of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) processes with the use of ‘syngas’, a

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Services 

Paul Wurth completes reline of ArcelorMittal blast furnaces

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Paul Wurth

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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Europe Product News 

Primetals to supply gas cleaning plant for blast furnace to Arcelormittal

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 admin 0 Comments ArcelorMittal, Blast Furnace

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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Product News 

Primetals and thyssenkrupp to launch carbon-neutrality blast furnace technology

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, carbon-neutral steelmaking

Primetals Technologies and thyssenkrupp have signed an exclusive, worldwide cooperation agreement which sees both parties commit to bringing the innovative

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Europe Product News 

MMK picks Paul Wurth for erection of new blast furnace

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Paul Wurth

Paul Wurth has signed a contract with PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) for a new major investment project

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Australia-Oceania Ferrous Metals 

BlueScope Port Kembla blast furnace upgrade deemed critical

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace

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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Europe Product News 

Danieli Corus to modernize blast furnace at Severstal

April 28, 2021April 27, 2021 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Russia

Danieli Corus has signed a contract with Severstal to modernize Blast Furnace No 5 in Cherepovets in Russia on a

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Africa Ferrous Metals South Africa 

AMSA steelmaking operations return to EBITDA profitability

January 31, 2021January 30, 2021 admin 0 Comments ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, EAF, steelmaking

VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa – ArcelorMittal South Africa, in its Trading Statement and Business Update for the year ended 31 December

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Africa Ferrous Metals South Africa 

AMSA’s Vanderbijlpark Works restarts second blast furnace

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 admin 0 Comments ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, steelmaking, Vanderbijlpark Works

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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Ferrous Metals Recycling &Environment World 

EAF steelmaking can’t address decarbonisation challenge alone

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 admin 0 Comments BHP, Blast Furnace, BOF, EAF, low-carbon, steelmaking

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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Ferrous Metals New Technology World 

Direct iron electrolysis will potentially play role in steelmaking

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Direct iron electrolysis, Steel, 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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Ferrous Metals World 

Retire blast furnaces or run them (low-)carbon efficient?

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, hydrogen, Ironmaking, low-carbon

Through advancements in technology and process control, a modern blast furnace can operate continuously for at least half a century,

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Ferrous Metals 

AMSA to restart blast furnace as steel demand recovers

September 30, 2020September 29, 2020 admin 0 Comments Africa, ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, South Africa

On the 16 July 2020, ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) said that, having reassessed its strategic asset footprint for 2020, the

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Product News 

Coke oven gas compression and injection for HKM

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Coke oven gas injection, Europe, Germany, Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Paul Wurth

With the aim to improve the CO2 balance of their steel plant operations located at Duisburg Huckingen in the Ruhr

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Ferrous Metals 

AMSA’s Newcastle blast furnace breaks down

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 admin 0 Comments Africa, AMSA, ArcelorMittal, ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, Ironmaking, South Africa, steelmaking

Reuters reported that ArcelorMittal South Africa has declared force majeure after a breakdown of a blast furnace at its Newcastle

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Ferrous Metals 

Lowering carbon footprint: coke oven gas injection at tuyeres

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Carbon footprint, Coke, Coke oven gas injection, Europe, Germany, Ironmaking, Rogesa

In November 2019, ROGESA, Dillingen, Germany, awarded Paul Wurth with an order to design and supply coke oven gas injection

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Ferrous Metals 

ArcelorMittal: reducing fixed cost structure is critical

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 admin 0 Comments Africa, AMSA, ArcelorMittal, Blast Furnace, electric arc furnace, South Africa, Steel, steelmaking

The largest African steelmaker, ArcelorMittal South Africa, says extraordinary cash management and cost control measures have been implemented to ensure

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Ferrous Metals 

US Steel plans to restart blast furnace on 1 August

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 admin 0 Comments Americas, Blast Furnace, Gary Works, Steel, steelmaking, US Steel, USA

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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Ferrous Metals 

AMSA to idle blast furnace and arc furnace

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 admin 0 Comments Africa, ArcelorMittal, ArcelorMittal South Africa, Blast Furnace, electric arc furnace, South Africa

In terms of the JSE Ltd. Listings Requirements, ArcelorMittal South Africa is required to publish a trading statement as soon

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Ferrous Metals 

Explosion rocks ArcelorMittal’s blast furnace plant

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 admin 0 Comments Americas, ArcelorMittal, Blast Furnace, blast stove, Burns Harbor, Ironmaking, steelmaking, USA

An explosion rocked the integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal steel plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana, on Thursday morning, igniting a fire and

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Ferrous Metals 

Plant Reline at Rogesa’s Dillingen No. 4 Blast Furnace

June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Dillinger, Europe, Paul Wurth, Slag granulation

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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Product News 

New staves for the rebuild of blast furnace in Taiwan

June 19, 2020June 18, 2020 admin 0 Comments Blast Furnace, China Steel Corporation, Stave, 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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Product News 

Wear-resistant copper staves for long-life blast furnace operation

May 29, 2020June 7, 2020 admin2 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Primetals

Significant reduction in wear and unplanned maintenance, prolonging campaign lifetime Hexagonal inserts retain burden material and encourage the formation of

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Ferrous Metals New Technology 

World first blast furnace use of hydrogen

November 24, 2019June 10, 2020 admin2 0 Comments Blast Furnace, Ironmaking

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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REFRACTORIES & FURNACES

Refractories: how it all started, how it is today, the future
Refractories/Insulation 

Refractories: how it all started, how it is today, the future

September 21, 2023September 18, 2023 admin 0

The use of refractory materials can be traced back to the very beginning of human civilisation. The first humans used

Strengthening Symbiosis in the Refractory Industry
Refractories/Insulation 

Strengthening Symbiosis in the Refractory Industry

September 15, 2023September 7, 2023 admin 0
RATH: Aluminum furnace lining concept for ideal wall construction
Refractories/Insulation 

RATH: Aluminum furnace lining concept for ideal wall construction

June 26, 2023June 22, 2023 admin 0
RATH: Successful refractory lining for hearth-type melting furnace
Refractories/Insulation 

RATH: Successful refractory lining for hearth-type melting furnace

June 9, 2023June 5, 2023 admin 0

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PRODUCT NEWS

Electrification solutions to Northvolt’s  battery metals recycling facility
Product News 

Electrification solutions to Northvolt’s  battery metals recycling facility

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 admin 0

ABB and Northvolt are further strengthening their long-standing collaboration in the field of green batteries, an increasingly critical part in

Aluminium producer and recycler Novelis to modernise with ABB
Product News 

Aluminium producer and recycler Novelis to modernise with ABB

September 12, 2023September 7, 2023 admin 0
Mill Steel Co. Expands Footprint with New Midwest Facility
Product News 

Mill Steel Co. Expands Footprint with New Midwest Facility

September 8, 2023September 2, 2023 admin 0
Dillinger and SMS to accelerate digitalization of iron and steel making process
Product News 

Dillinger and SMS to accelerate digitalization of iron and steel making process

September 6, 2023September 2, 2023 admin 0
SMS and SAIL to develop processes to decarbonize steel production S
Product News 

SMS and SAIL to develop processes to decarbonize steel production S

August 22, 2023August 16, 2023 admin 0
Engineering contract for BioIron process
Product News 

Engineering contract for BioIron process

August 15, 2023August 10, 2023 admin 0
Flat Rolling and a 50th Anniversary: Primetals Technologies
Product News 

Flat Rolling and a 50th Anniversary: Primetals Technologies

August 11, 2023August 8, 2023 admin 0

SERVICES

Paul Wurth completes reline of ArcelorMittal blast furnaces
Services 

Paul Wurth completes reline of ArcelorMittal blast furnaces

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 admin 0

Paul Wurth, part of SMS group, has completed its work relining the blast furnaces of ArcelorMittal’s Juiz de Fora steel

Maersk intends to form joint venture with Grindrod in South Africa
Services 

Maersk intends to form joint venture with Grindrod in South Africa

December 4, 2021December 3, 2021 admin 0
HBIS Wusteel signs maintenance contracts with Primetals
Services 

HBIS Wusteel signs maintenance contracts with Primetals

June 1, 2021May 31, 2021 admin 0
Shutdown services tailored to suit customers
Services World 

Shutdown services tailored to suit customers

March 3, 2021March 2, 2021 admin 0

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