Products & Services
Nov
2023
New preheater for environmentally friendly metal processing
The specialist for melting and heat treatment systems, Otto Junker, has presented its latest furnace system. EcoJet is a preheating oven for the emission-free preheating of bars and billets, which, according to the ...
Nov
2023
Benteler makes first supply of CO₂-reduced tubes
Paderborn-based Benteler Steel/Tube and the Dutch Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group have signed a letter of intent on the supply of CO2-reduced tubes under the new Benteler brand CliMore. The production route is expected ...
Okt
2023
Salzgitter supplies SALCOS steel for Wagon Automotive
Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with automotive systems supplier Wagon Automotive Nagelt GmbH. In the future, the company is to use CO₂-reduced steel from the SALCOS® route ...
Jul
2023
Improved component quality with digitised casting process
Producing large workpieces from lead-bronze alloys by centrifugal casting is an energy- and time-intensive process. In order to avoid manufacturing errors and thus expensive rejects, the TH Köln, together with the ...
Jul
2023
ArcelorMittal Hamburg uses residual granules instead of coal
At ArcelorMittal's Hamburg steel mill, a granulate from municipal waste is used instead of coal to produce crude steel from sponge iron and recycled scrap in an electric arc ...
Jun
2023
Optimized magnet-based Inclusion Detection System from IMS
At this year’s METEC in Düsseldorf, IMS Messsysteme GmbH presented the optimized version of its Inclusion Detection System (IDS) for cold-rolled strip steels. The innovation works on the basis of the magnetic ...
Jun
2023
GMTN: Vulkan Verlag confers ecoMetals Award 2023
Yesterday, Malte Seifert, Managing Director of GMTN, and Jürgen Franke, Managing Director of Vulkan Verlag presented the ecoMetals Award 2023. There had been more than 500 applications. The ecoMetals Award honours ...
Jun
2023
GMTN: Science slam at the ecoMetals Forum
The Science Slam took place on the stage of the ecoMetals Forum. A total of eight slammers presented fascinating technical ideas that could help save the ...
Jun
2023
KOCKS presents latest innovations at METEC 2023
METEC in Düsseldorf is one of the world’s leading trade fairs for the metallurgy and steel industry. KOCKS will be showing its latest technological solutions. The company’s rolling mills, and equipment will be on ...
Mai
2023
New Pirani/Bayard-Alpert vacuum gauge from Pfeiffer Vacuum ensures process control and operational reliability
Many vacuum applications operate only within a specific pressure range. In order to operate such vacuum systems efficiently, the total pressure must be measured reliably. Therefore offers Pfeiffer Vacuum a large product ...
Apr
2023
NCA successfully starts production with an aluminum cold rolling mill supplied by SMS group
At the end of February 2023, the new aluminum cold rolling mill (CRM) at North China Aluminum New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (NCA) in China successfully rolled its first coil. SMS group supplied and installed the ...
Mrz
2023
Dango & Dienenthal: More safety when stripping permanent molds
At METEC, Dango & Dienenthal (D&D) will present the new vertical ingot ejector that pushes ingots out of the mold in a controlled manner. These features enable the machine to significantly increase both process ...
Feb
2023
HKM orders customized relining machine
Steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) has ordered an LD converter (BOF) relining machine from Primetals Technologies. A 30-year-old and outdated machine at HKM’s steel plant in Duisburg, Germany, will be ...
Jan
2023
Hertwich to supply fully automatic sawing line for aluminum billets to Century Aluminium
American producer Century Aluminum has placed an order with Hertwich Engineering GmbH, Austria, a subsidiary of SMS group, for a fully automatic sawing line for aluminum billets. The line, which also includes systems ...
Dez
2022
Primetals Technologies to increase capacity SCR copper rod mill
Primetals Technologies is partnering with Southwire Company to expand an existing Southwire Continuous Rod (SCR) system owned and operated by an Asian customer who manufactures wire, cables, and related products. ...
Dez
2022
New TCF® Dual-Chamber Melting Furnace Replaces Two Old Plants
Tenova LOI Thermprocess, one of the leading companies in supplying industrial furnace systems for the heat treatment of metals, has successfully completed the production optimization of a new Twin-Chamber Melting ...
Dez
2022
Primetals: new sustainable technology market ready
ArcelorMittal hosted an inauguration ceremony together with LanzaTech, E4tech, and Primetals Technologies for the Steelanol plant located nearby ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Ghent, Belgium. In 2014, the four ...
Dez
2022
SSAB and TRIWA produce fossil-free steel watch
The unique watch, named Time for Decarbonization, has been created using fossil-free steel powder. After a quick detour to the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 a short while ago, the watch will be launched on December ...
Dez
2022
Danieli electric steelmaking technology replacing BOF converters
Following China’s adoption of low-carbon CO2 targets, and with the aim to gain operational flexibility and choose the charge mix between scrap and hot metal, Baowu Masteel relied on Danieli technology for its new EAF, ...
Dez
2022
ArcelorMittal: Order for 2.5-Mtpy hydrogen-ready DRI plant
In the frame of its decarbonization plan through an innovative DRI program, ArcelorMittal has chosen Energiron DRI Direct Reduced Iron technology for its Dofasco plant in Canada. The Energiron Alliance (Tenova+Danieli) ...
Dez
2022
Epiroc: underground mine truck made using fossil-free steel from SSAB
Epiroc is pioneering a battery-electric underground mine truck prototype made using fossil-free steel from SSAB. The prototype, a Minetruck MT42 Battery, has a dump box made from fossil-free steel. The result will mean ...
Nov
2022
Outstanding performance figures from EAF Quantum
Primetals Technologies has recently received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for an EAF Quantum implemented at Chinese steel producer Hongtai Steel’s site close to Xuancheng, Anhui province, China. In 2018, ...
Okt
2022
Heavy plate from Dillinger for Europe’s largest ship elevator
A new ship lift that recently opened in Niederfinow is built with steel from Dillinger. Located at the eastern end of the Oder-Havel Canal in Niederfinow in Brandenburg, it hoists ships in a suspended steel trough over ...
Okt
2022
Strenx® structural steel – more crane performance with less dead weight
The Fassi F 1450 HXP Techno is the first loading crane to be acquired by Zimmerei Lindner and Meyer, a medium-sized construction company based in Dinkelsbühl. It serves customers in southern Germany. The Fassi F 1450 ...