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With its wide range of manufacturing technologies, toolcraft AG, based in Middle Franconia in Bavaria, Germany, can constantly tap into new industries. The company has already been working for the defence and security sector for some time. Its most recent project was for Rheinmetall AG and demonstrates the array of possibilities offered by additive manufacturing at toolcraft.

• Backed by Primetals Technologies, EIT InnoEnergy, Engie New Ventures, FORVIA, GROUPE IDEC, and Plug, GravitHy plans to build, own, and operate its first green iron and steel plant in France
• GravityHY plans to mobilize 2.2 billion Euro worth of initial investment, creating over 3,000 new jobs

GravitHy

A consortium composed of EIT InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, a body of the European Union (EU), Engie New Ventures, Plug, FORVIA, GROUPE IDEC through GROUPE IDEC INVEST INNOVATION and Primetals Technologies as a partner of the consortium, today launch GravitHy – a future market leader in green steel.

• Outokumpu has signed a contract with Primetals Technologies for two caster molds and two Mold Expert Fiber systems
• Mold Expert Fiber is a new technology for getting an “inside look” into continuous casting molds
• Outokumpu will use this technology to increase knowledge about mold flow and to aid the development of new steel grades

Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu recently placed an order with Primetals Technologies for two new molds and two new Mold Expert Fiber systems. The equipment will be supplied to Outokumpu’s two single-strand slab casters at its site in Tornio, located in the north-western part of Finland.

Hydro Precision Tubing –Hydro Suzhou– awarded Danieli Breda the contract for a new, 60-MN front-loading direct extrusion press for the Suzhou plant, Jiangsu province, in the south of China.

The investment aims at reinforcing the production of special aluminium profiles for the automotive market, widely requested by the Chinese and international markets.

Swiss Steel Group has reached another milestone on the road to decarbonization. Steeltec, the Group’s Swiss plant located in Emmenbrücke, is now relying exclusively on Swiss hydropower to produce its special steels. For this, a game-changing strategic partnership was concluded with Axpo Holding AG. The Swiss plant can already boast very low emission values and is reducing CO2 emissions even further in taking this step.

JSW awarded Danieli Centro Maskin the order for a new SuperGrinder plant to be installed at Dolvi, Maharashtra, India.

This project will represent one of the most important technology milestones for slab conditioning, reconfirming Danieli Centro Maskin solid technology and market leadership.

SSAB has entered an agreement with U.S.-based Shape Corp., a tier-one automotive supplier of lightweight body structures, to deliver fossil-free steel crash management and body structure systems to market.

• New LD converter (BOF) relining machine will greatly improve safety, working conditions, and relining capacity
• Unique solution based on a detailed study
• Startup is planned for summer 2023

Recently, Brazilian steel producer Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP) ordered a new relining machine from Primetals Technologies for its steel mill located in Pecém, a city in the state of Ceará, in north-eastern Brazil. Equipped with two 300-ton LD converters (BOFs) supplied by Primetals Technologies in 2016, CSP’s plant has an annual capacity of three million tons of slabs.