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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Paul Wurth has been awarded with orders for two new blast furnaces to be built by Erdemir Group, Turkey’s largest steelmaker, at their Ereğli and Iskenderun integrated steel plants. In both cases, one completely new furnace will replace an older production unit.At Ereğli at Turkey’s northern Black Sea shore, Erdemir’s new BF2 will have a hearth diameter of 10 meters, 24 tuyeres and two tapholes; it will produce 5,000 tons of hot metal per day from an inner volume of 2,188 cubic meters. A ...

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Under the chairmanship of Michel Wurth, the Ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Société Anonyme Paul WURTH was held on 14 May 2019 to approve amongst others the financial statements for the year 2018. Thanks to an ambitious research and innovation programme and the development of future-oriented solutions, Paul Wurth is resolutely facing up to the challenges for the steel industry, triggered by the huge trends “decarbonisation” and “industry 4.0”.Economic climate and commercial ...

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As a regular participant for many years already, Paul Wurth will again be in close contact with their customers at the AISTech trade fair and conference, this time back to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA, on May 06 – 09, 2019.At the exhibition, Paul Wurth’s representatives, participating at the common booth of the SMS group, will be happy to discuss with you news about the company’s products, projects and services.In the frame of the AISTech conference, our colleagues will present a � ...

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