Green Steel The green pulse of ironmaking The Sequence Impulse Process enhances blast-furnace-based ironmaking and lowers the associated carbon footprint. The technology superimposes periodic bursts of oxygen on the steady flow of oxygen ... ISSUE #11 (MAY 22) 04.04.2022
Ironmaking ArcelorMittal Orders Gas-Sleaning Plant for BF at Dąbrowa Górnicza Site Recently, ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. placed an order with Primetals Technologies and Mostostal Zabrze Realizacje Przemyslowe S.A. (MZRP) to supply a gas cleaning plant for its blast furnace #2 in ... 09.11.2021
Ironmaking thyssenkrupp and Primetals Technologies Improve Blast Furnace Carbon Footprint Primetals Technologies and thyssenkrupp have signed an exclusive, worldwide cooperation agreement which sees both parties commit to bringing the innovative Sequence Impulse Process (known as SIP ... 30.09.2021
Ironmaking ArcelorMittal Orders New Blast-Furnace Staves for Newcastle Plant ArcelorMittal South Africa has placed an order with Primetals Technologies to supply cast-iron staves for the blast furnace at the company´s Newcastle, KwaZulu Natal works. The new staves ... 23.09.2021
Green Steel Zero-Carbon Iron: Primetals Technologies, MHI Australia Join HILT-CRC Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Australia and Primetals Technologies, a member of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have joined Australia’s Heavy Industry Low-Carbon Transition Cooperative Re 25.08.2021
Green Steel Applying hydrogen in commercially proven direct-reduction solutions Hydrogen is already part of the reduction-gas mix in mainstream direct-reduction processes—alongside carbon monoxide, of course. ISSUE #09 (JAN 20) 01.01.2020
Green Steel The winding road toward zero-carbon iron Iron and steel production is responsible for 7 to 10 percent of global CO2 emissions. A decisive shift away from carbon-based reductants to alternatives like hydrogen is all but ... ISSUE #09 (JAN 20) 01.01.2020
Green Steel Turning Off-Gas Streams into Revenue Streams An Arcelormittal plant in Poland harnesses heat and pressure from blast-furnace off-gas to generate electricity. This helps to save 115,000 tons of carbon emissions p. year—and turns a handsome profit ISSUE #09 (JAN 20) 01.01.2020
Green Steel HYFOR: Hydrogen-Based Fine-Ore Reduction Hydrogen-based Fine-Ore Reduction (or HYFOR for short) is the world's first direct-reduction process for iron-ore concentrates from ore beneficiation... ISSUE #09 (JAN 20) 01.01.2020
Ironmaking The next-generation copper staves Primetals Technologies has developed a new copper-stave design that ensures more effective and reliable cooling of today’s blast furnaces. ISSUE #08 (MAY 19) 01.05.2019
Ironmaking DRI plants, tailored to your needs Two Midrex direct-reduction (DRI) hot-briquetted iron (HBI) plants, recently commissioned in the U.S.A. and Russia, demonstrate the operational flexibility of the Midrex direct-reduction process. ISSUE #08 (MAY 19) 01.05.2019
Ironmaking Tapping hot slag for energy Hot slag in blast furnaces is a source of energy that has gone largely untapped. Dry Slag Granulation is about to change this. ISSUE #07 (OCT 18) 01.10.2018
Digitalization Acoustic Expert: Detecting Malfunction Through Sound The efficiency of iron and steel production has always been decisive for producers to remain cost-competitive. It can be shown that the properties, cost and quality of iron ore are the most important ISSUE #07 (OCT 18) 01.10.2018
Digitalization Digitalization and process optimization Piotr Czupryna is CEO of Primetals Technologies Poland, which comprises the company locations in Cracow and Rzeszów, both in southern Poland. Czupryna has been with Primetals Technologies ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Holistic Ironmaking Optimization While process optimization systems have been widely introduced in many facilities of ironmaking plants, in a lot of cases there is no overall automation system, supporting coordination and ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Ironmaking Expert System Direct Reduction Keeping the operation of Midrex direct-reduction (DR) plants smooth and stable in order to produce consistent-quality direct-reduced iron can be a demanding task. But thorough process ... 01.03.2018
Digitalization Expert System Blast Furnace Primetals Technologies is the leading supplier of blast furnace automation systems for the iron and steel industries. This is especially true for blast furnace process optimization systems, which ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Ironmaking Taking a Large Step Into the U.S.A. It is the largest investment that an Austrian company has ever made in the United States: voestalpine's new hot-briquetted iron direct-reduction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a masterpiece of ... ISSUE #04 (FEB 17) 01.02.2017
Ironmaking Rebuilt for Reliability During the summer of 2015, a major plant site rebuild was carried out at the SSAB steelworks in Luleå, Sweden. The project included improvements to Blast Furnace ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Ironmaking Better ControlBetter Coke Primetals Technologies implemented an order at SSAB's Raahe Steel Works in Finland to modernize the PLC (programmable logic controller) systems of the coke oven plant. Almost all project ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Ironmaking Next-Generation Ironmaking The need to reduce ironmaking costs, increase raw material and operational flexibility, and fulfill ever-stricter environmental regulations count among the decisive reasons behind the ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Ironmaking End-to-End Excellence Across the Metals Value Chain – Ironmaking Ironmaking papers will be presented by Primetals Technologies specialists at the ESTAD Congress covering the topics of blast furnace ironmaking, Corex and Finex smelting-reduction technology, and ... ISSUE #01 (MAY 15) 01.05.2015