steel news

• Dr. Michel Siemon appointed as first CEO of Primobius GmbH
• Supervisory Board: "Right time for a strategic expansion of the leadership team"
• Managing Directors, Merrill Gray and Horst Krenn, continue to head joint operations

• Active Power Feeder, a ground-breaking power solution from Primetals Technologies, to be implemented at German steel producer BGH Edelstahl
• Crucial technology for green steel projects – connects electric arc furnaces to the grid while ensuring high power quality, an energy-efficient process, reduced electrode consumption, and reduced stress and wear of the furnace equipment

• Advanced Raw Material Tracker for improved blast furnace charging and process control
• Data-driven models ensure optimal allocation of the burden on the conveyor belt
• Early prevention of inefficient material distribution

• Most recently implemented Arvedi Endless Strip Production (ESP) line from Primetals Technologies with an annual productivity of 2.55 million tons of hot rolled strip
• Thin-slab casting and rolling plant for producing ultra-thin strip of high quality, further optimized for ferritic rolling
• Energy consumption reduced by up to 50 percent compared to conventional casting and rolling processes
• Zero direct CO2 emissions resulting from production

Axens, SMS group subsidiary Paul Wurth and IFP Energies nouvelles signed a co-development agreement for the optimization of the Reverse Water Gas Shift technology (RWGS) and its integration into e-fuel projects. The RWGS technology is indeed an essential part of the suite of technologies converting CO2 to renewable/low carbon fuels and chemicals intermediates.

Inner Mongolia Chuangyuan Plate Co., Ltd. awarded a new contract to SMS group during METEC trade fair 2023 in Dusseldorf. The deal covers one complete set of 1,850 millimeter 6-high CVC® plus aluminium cold rolling mill and one complete set of 2,300 millimeter 6-high CVC® plus aluminium cold rolling mill.

Primetals Technologies has recently implemented an upgrade of the LD converter (BOF) process optimization system at Salzgitter Flachstahl in Salzgitter, Germany.

The order received from Stahl Gerlafingen for a K-Weld machine to be installed at its plant in Switzerland, is the fourth for the new, sixth-generation billet welders awarded to Danieli in the last 12 months.