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HANZA Holding AB (publ) officially opens its new production facility in Tartu, Estonia. The new plant strengthens HANZA’s position as a unique supplier of regional and complete manufacturing and creates additional capacity for further growth.

• Customer Nucor Steel Arkansas issues final acceptance certificate for main mill stand drive upgrade project
• Equipment upgrades to F5 and F6 drives improve strip quality
• Outage time minimized, full production on start-up

Primetals Technologies has received the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for its F5 and F6 main drive upgrade project with Nucor Steel Arkansas of Armorel, Arkansas. This completes the third phase of the total project: full replacement of the hot strip mill’s six main mill stand drives.

• Installation of fully integrated casting and hot rolling plants, automation systems, and digitalization solutions
• Two slab casters and a hot rolling mill increase annual production by 5.6 million metric tons of steel
• A quality control system, digital assistants, and a scheduling solution right from the beginning ensure a consistently high level of performance

Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel JSC has awarded a major contract to Primetals Technologies for a new production line at the steel plant in Dung Quat, Quang Ngai province in Central Vietnam.

Danieli Service was selected to supply new upper shell and roof for an electric arc furnace producing electro-fused refractory products, mainly used in the construction of melting furnaces. Furnaces that are a crucial in the production of glass and other products.

• Plants operate fully automatically and are ready for further digitalization
• Copper-clad lids increase service life and ensure high steel quality
• LiquiRob systems offer highest safety standards for temperature measurement and unmanned sampling
• New equipment reduces operating costs
• Treatment capacity amounts to 5.2 million metric tons of liquid steel per year

German steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM) has granted Primetals Technologies final acceptance for two new ladle-treatment stands. The plants were built at the BOF steel plant at the Duisburg-Huckingen site.

• Achieves off-gas dust emissions below European standards
• New heat-recovery system with steam-operated cooling stack makes steam available for the existing network
• Reduced dust emissions inside the steel plant
• Increased productivity by optimal synchronization of the metallurgical aspects, the dedusting system, and automation
• Project finished on schedule despite pandemic conditions thanks to a special program

Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificates (FACs) from NLMK Group in Lipetsk for the construction of off-gas systems at LD converters (BOFs) No. 2 and 3 at steel plant LD2.

Italian minimill producer and industry innovator Ferriere Nord (Pittini Group) is first in operating a 6th generation Danieli billet welder.

SSAB and Swedish electric car company Polestar have signed a letter of intent to start strategic collaboration to create a climate-neutral car. The vehicle will be developed in close cooperation in a joint effort to advance climate mitigation and to create more sustainable mobility.