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, which is now in operation in Changjiang, China.
Based in Taizhou, China, precision forging manufacturer Jiangsu Pacific Precision Forging Company, a leading enterprise within the Confederation of Chinese Metalforming Industry (CCMI), has placed an order with SMS group for a fully automatic MP 3150 eccentric closed-die forging press. With its new 31.5 MN press, Pacific Precision will be able to forge aluminium chassis components on a much larger scale.
SMS group has completed its first X-Pact® IOC (Integrated Operating Center), a central monitoring room for the entire 460-millimeter tube plant, at Daye Special Steel in Hubei Province, China. With the Daye 460 project, which also includes the enhancement of the tube plant's existing automation systems, SMS group has achieved a breakthrough in its Integrated Operating Center (IOC) application, an important milestone on the path to X-Pact® Lights-out.
Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) from Gerdau Special Steel North America for the modernization of its electric steel plant in Monroe, Michigan, U.S.A. The project included modernizing the existing electric arc furnace (EAF). The electric steel plant was also equipped with a new twin ladle furnace, a new material handling system, and related auxiliary equipment.
The 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 a 36-meter difference in elevation from the Oder into the Havel Canal and vice versa.
JSW Dolvi has placed an order with Primetals Technologies for comprehensive maintenance services, including spare parts supply, for its new continuous casters at the steel plant in Dolvi, Maharashtra province, India. The slab casters have a production capacity between 4 and 4.5 million tons of steel per year.
LatemAluminium commissions SMS group to supply an aluminum cold rolling mill for its new plant in the Spanish province of Castilla y León
SMS group supplies process technology for the world's first large-scale green steel production plant
Primetals Technologies recently received a new order from voestalpine for implementing the knowledge-based quality control system Through-Process Quality Control (TPQC) at the steel plant in Donawitz, Austria. Implementation is scheduled for the 2nd quarter of 2023.
American titanium specialist Perryman orders two new plants from SMS with fully integrated process and production control system.
thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel GmbH has successfully launched the production management system PSImetals 5 from PSI Metals. The software modules Production and Quality control the cold rolling mill, heat treatment, surface treatment and cutting. The solution allows for a seamless integration of the production processes with the business layer in ERP and plant automation.
Most of the CO2 emissions in steelmaking comes from the blast furnace process, which today is still the main production route. Primetals Technologies is developing a new green steel technology to replace blast furnace plants and has signed a collaboration contract with RHI Magnesita, the global leader in refractory innovations.
