steel news

• New wire rod outlet will expand product range
• Thermomechanical rolling to improve drawability
• Rolling process monitoring with Process Expert Level 2 package
• Commissioning expected summer 2023

Metals producer Ege Çelìk Endüstrisi Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. has contracted with Primetals Technologies for upgrades to its wire rod mill in İzmir, Turkey. The addition of a new wire rod outlet will expand its value-added product range for markets in Turkey and Europe, with greater capability for surface finish quality and dimensional tolerance in its wire rod products.

• Until now, part of the slag produced during hot metal desulfurization has been disposed of in landfills.
• thyssenkrupp MillServices & Systems: Components can be extracted and reused across industries.
• Economic efficiency and CO2 reduction potential are being explored in a cross-industry partnership.

thyssenkrupp MillServices & Systems is pursuing a promising approach to reusing the slag produced in hot metal desulfurization and reducing the carbon footprint: Instead of disposing of the slag produced in desulfurization, its components are to be reused across all industries – as a building material, as fertilizer in agriculture and in steel production.

Quick startup of a fully electrical soaking furnace for long products led to full operations in four weeks at Fagersta Stainless, Sweden.

The Danieli Centro Combustion design maintains and equalizes billet temperature between induction heater reheating furnace and rolling mill.

• New melt shop will add 5 million metric tons per year at Vijayanagar, Toranagallu site
• Will produce high-quality carbon steels
• Order includes BOF(LD)-converters, ladle furnaces and slab casters
• Gas cleaning and dedusting systems ensure high environmental standards

Indian steelmaker JSW Vijayanagar Metallics Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of JSW Steel Ltd (JSW Steel), has placed an order with Primetals Technologies to supply equipment for its new Steel Melt Shop No. 4 in Vijayanagar, Toranagallu. The order includes two BOF(LD)-converters, two ladle furnaces, gas cleaning and dedusting systems, two slab casters as well as level 1 and level 2 automation systems.

• High-quality copper wire rod for the expansion of renewable energy production in China
• Unique casting process that precludes porosity in the casting bar's core
• CONTIROD® is a fully integrated casting and rolling process for the production of very fine-grained copper wire rod

The Amer International Group, based in Shenzhen, China, has placed an order with SMS group for eleven CONTIROD® copper wire rod plants (CONTIROD® is a registered trademark of Aurubis Belgium). The new plants will produce 8 mm copper wire rod, to be used in the production of a range of different electrical conductors.

• bluemint® powercore with 50 % less CO2 intensity
• delivery of 50 tons to transformer specialist SGB-SMIT
• transformers with CO2-reduced electrical steel for new digital E.ON medium-voltage stations in Germany

The energy transition is a task for the century. And it also starts in Gelsenkirchen, at electrical steel specialist thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel.

• Contract awarded for integrated quality control system "TPO"
• Goal: improve quality of rail production
• Advantages: systematic data collection from which improvement measures are derived
• Primetals Technologies also conducts data-driven correlation analyses

In October 2021, EVRAZ Consolidated West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) awarded a contract to Primetals Technologies for an integrated quality control system for its steel mill and rolling mill in Novokuznetsk, Russia.

Cylindrical roller bearings mounted to a continuous casting machine were only lasting 1-2 months prior to failure at a major steelmaking plant in Europe. To remedy the situation, the facility invited NSK’s team of experts to review the application and operating conditions, a process that ultimately led to the adoption of NSK’s sealed spherical roller bearings. The result: annual savings of €14,850 in downtime and maintenance costs.