Products & Services

  • Metso offers innovative FloatForce further improving efficiency
    Metso is expanding its flotation portfolio with a new innovative solution, the FloatForce®+ mixing mechanism. With FloatForce®+, part of Metso’s Planet Positive offering, Metso introduces a plug-and-play solution that maximizes metallurgical recovery, boosts pumping efficiency, and reduces energy consumption, helping customers recover valuable materials and increase revenue. Launched in 2006, FloatForce®
  • Metso expands polishing filtration with GM filter for battery minerals processes
    Metso is expanding its polishing filtration product family with the addition of the GM (Glass Media) filter. The Metso GM filter is designed to remove insoluble organics in battery metals processes by utilizing very efficient and patented coalescing media. With its cost-effective and modular design, the GM filter increases the recovery
  • Hydrocyclone Curved Bottom technology enhances efficiency and maximize capacity
    Metso has introduced the newest member of its MHC hydrocyclones product family, the MHCTM CB (curved bottom). This new hydrocyclone is designed for superior particle separation with increased unit capacity and coarser cut sizes while minimizing the fines bypass. Ben Klein, Product Group Manager of Hydrocyclones at Metso, says: “The design
  • Muhaj Baghdad orders new three-strand billet caster
    Muhaj Baghdad again selects Danieli long-product technologies. A new contract with Danieli has been signed for the supply of a new, three-strand billet caster to be installed in the region of Babil (Babylon), Iraq. The continuous casting machine will produce 500,000 tpy of rebar grades in a 130x130 mm section
  • Revamped EAF boasts increased safety and productivity
    U.S. steel producer NLMK Indiana has started up a 118-ton electric arc furnace, revamped by Primetals Technologies, at its steel plant in Portage, Indiana, U.S.A. The total shutdown time spanned six weeks until the first heat. Within four days, the furnace produced a remarkable 21 heats, and from then on
  • Synhelion establishes the world’s first industrial solar fuel plant
    SMS group commends Synhelion on reaching a significant milestone with the launch of the world's first industrial demonstration plant DAWN for the production of solar fuels. Synhelion is now moving forward with the commissioning of DAWN to commence solar fuel production in the near future. The innovative plant developed and
  • Melt Expert is champion in fine-tuning electric steelmaking processes
    Athletes who excel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris all have certain characteristics in common – they are precise and effective, and they showcase world-leading skills in their respective discipline. Interestingly, all of these features can also be found in Primetals Technologies’ Melt Expert electrode control system for electric
  • Shagang Group to produce green ultra-thin steel strip
    Ultra-compact and energy-effective Castrip plants were first installed in the U.S.A. and Mexico. In 2018, Shagang Group introduced Castrip technology to China at its plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province. Since then, Shagang Group has invested in three further Castrip lines. These new lines were implemented in just 12 months, with
  • Siam Yamato Steel uses AI model-based energy management solution
    Siam Yamato Steel Company Limited (SYS), specializing in hot-rolled structural steel production, headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, has announced partnership with the SMS group's Brazilian subsidiary, Vetta. This partnership is aimed at implementing the state-of-the-art energy management solution, Viridis Performance, at SYS’s production facilities in Rayong province, Thailand. This solution will
  • The Rhodax Club: Advancing Green Anode Plant Technology
    In the dynamic landscape of aluminum production, innovation and collaboration are essential, Fives has taken a significant step forward by launching the Rhodax® Club. This exclusive club brings together experts and end users to address critical challenges and drive advancements in the Rhodax® process technology. The Rhodax® Process: A Brief
  • Mitigating dust risks with real-time dust monitoring solutions
    Mining operations, known for their dusty environments, face the critical challenge of protecting workers' health, safeguarding the environment, and maintaining positive relations with nearby communities while ensuring regulatory compliance. As the leading value-added partner supplying M3SH monitoring solutions across Africa, Probe IMT introduces an effective solution for comprehensive air quality
  • Significant savings in flocculant consumption could be made
    When an Australian copper-gold mine needed to replace a worn feedwell in one of its tailings thickeners, it initially requested a like-for-like replacement. But FLS knew things could be improved. FLS ultimately worked with the mine to introduce an innovative feedwell design that delivered significant operational and environmental benefits. The
  • Modernization of blast furnace A at Salzgitter completed
    The new bell less top (BLT) installed in blast furnace A offers enhanced efficiency with less maintenance. With improved access and more efficient dismantling aids, the innovative design enables maintenance times to be reduced considerably. The newly installed silencer has significantly cut noise emissions, so operation of the system is
  • Metso reintroduces technology for efficient quenching of off-gas
    Metso is reintroducing the OtoVent off-gas treatment technology for the quenching of various types of off-gases in non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgical processes and in oil, gas and chemical plants. OtoVent technology is used, for example, at the most modern copper smelters. OtoVent has high quenching and pre-dedusting capability, and the
  • Gerdau Ouro Branco digitalizes energy and resources management
    The effective management of energy and resources has become a critical source of competitiveness and sustainability for industrial operations, particularly for the steel segment. Given the complexity and interdependence of its processes, which is often the case of integrated plants, the adoption of digital solutions that enable managing energy performance,
  • Metso launches intelligent solution for for lithium-ion batteries
    Metso is launching the Metso pCAM plant, an intelligent Planet Positive-certified solution for the manufacturing of precursor cathode active material, which is needed in the production of lithium-ion batteries. Centered around an energy-efficient pCAM reactor, PSI® 1000 particle size analyzer and pCAM process control, Metso’s pCAM plant integrates advanced technology
  • Hebei chooses bar-in-coil outlet solution to solidify market leadership
    Primetals Technologies is supplying a new bar-in-coil (BIC) outlet for the Hebei Xinggang Technology plant, which is being relocated to Xingtai City, Hebei Provence, China. For this custom production process and equipment solution, Primetals Technologies will engineer, install, and implement a new BIC outlet. Also included are two shears, a water cooling
  • Baosteel orders Bow-Type Caster to produce the world’s largest slab sections
    Chinese steel producer Baosteel Zhanjiang has awarded Primetals Technologies a contract for the engineering, supply, and startup of a bow-type 2-strand continuous caster for the production of extraordinarily thick slabs. The caster, designed to be one of the world’s most powerful, will be implemented at Baosteels’s plant in Zhanjiang, Guangdong
  • World’s most compact pelletizing plant for Essel Mining
    Indian iron ore mining company Essel Mining and Industries Limited (EMIL) recently granted the final acceptance certificate (FAC) to Primetals Technologies for its Circular Pelletizing Technology (CPT) plant located at its facilities in Basantpur, Odisha state, India. CPT is the world’s most compact pelletizing plant for the production of high-quality
  • First Danieli spooler line in operation in Brazil
    Aço Cearense Group’s Siderúrgica Norte Brasil (Sinobras) plant produced the first spooled coils using Danieli spooler technology at its rolling mill #2 in Marabá, Pará state, Brazil. The new spooler line is capable of producing rebars from 10 to 25 mm dia in perfectly shaped coils, at a maximum finishing