Within the frame of NLMK Group’s Strategy 2022, No. 6 Blast Furnace at NLMK’s main site in Lipetsk, Russia, has been completely rebuilt during a furnace outage stretching from May until October. On October 31st, short before midnight, the new Blast Furnace No. 6, designed and equipped by Paul Wurth, has been blown-in.NLMK’s order awarded to Paul Wurth foresaw engineering, supply of equipment and site supervision related to the complete rebuild of BF6’s central unit, i.e. the blast furnac ...

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After Shandong-Rizhao, a second Chinese coke maker relies on Paul Wurth technology.In late September 2019, Paul Wurth was awarded with orders for the supply of engineering and SOPRECO® Single Oven Pressure Control Systems for two top charging coke oven batteries becoming part of the new coke making plant of Xiangtan Iron & Steel in Xiangtan, Hunan province, in Central China. Each battery counts 50 coke ovens with a height of 7.3 meters equipped with SOPRECO, Paul Wurth’s state-of-the-art ...

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ROGESA Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH (ROGESA), a joint subsidiary of both companies AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger) and Saarstahl AG, has awarded Paul Wurth with the order to design and supply coke oven gas injection systems for the company’s blast furnaces No. 4 and No. 5 located in Dillingen/Saar, Germany.With this new technology, coke oven gas will become a metallurgical process gas instead of being used for producing energy at low efficiency level. In its new role, coke oven gas ...

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EVRAZ ZSMK and Paul Wurth successfully finalized the first phase of a stepwise technical upgrade of the hot blast stoves plant at ZSMK Works’ No. 2 blast furnace in Novokuznetsk, West Siberia.Back in 2014, Paul Wurth won a tender for engineering a complete new hot blast generation plant in preparation of the project. Already at that time, Paul Wurth’s experience and technology convinced the customer and were perceived to be superior to some other competitors. In particular, ZSMK’s experts ...

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Třinecké Železárny, a.s., an integrated steel works located in the very North-East of the Czech Republic in the town of Třinec, produces added value products such rails, sections, steel wire and bar, seamless tubes as well as special steel for tools and springs. The whole production bases on an ironmaking plant consisting of two blast furnaces of nearly equal design, with a joint capacity of just a little bit more than 2 million tons of hot metal per year.In late spring 2019, Třinecké Že ...

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