Luxembourg, 28 March 2014. Steelmaking societies of several European countries have organised a new conference format: the European Steel Technology and Applications Days (ESTAD). The first edition will be conducted in Paris, 7-8 April 2014, in cooperation with French FFA’s 31st Journées Sidérurgiques Internationales. The following papers by Paul Wurth are included in the conference programme: Copper staves cooled blast furnaces – The key for efficient operation and long campaign (Sess ...

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Tokyo & Luxembourg, March 10, 2014 . Kobe Steel, Ltd. of Japan and Paul Wurth S.A. of Luxembourg, a member of the SMS Group, have signed a construction license agreement that enables the SMS Group to market, design and erect MIDREX® Direct Reduction Plants around the world. Kobe Steel, Ltd. is owner of both Midrex Technologies, Inc., and the MIDREX® Direct Reduction Process — the industry’s most productive technology for making high-quality direct reduced iron (DRI) products. DRI a ...

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Every two years the Business Federation Luxembourg FEDIL confers an Environment Award to reward companies whose innovative processes reduce the impact on the environment and conciliate productivity and preservation of natural resources. The jury of the 13rd Fedil Environment award has attributed the first prize in the category “Processes” to Paul Wurth’s Dry Slag Granulation Process with Energy Recovery. The award ceremony took place on 2 December 2013 in the premises of the Chamber of C ...

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On 8 July 2013, the service experts of Paul Wurth do Brasil performed a 24-hours preventive maintenance programme at the blast furnaces N° 1 & 2 and at the INBA® slag granulation facilities of ThyssenKrupp CSA’s integrated steel plant at Sepetiba Bay in Brazil. It was the first time ever that Paul Wurth was in charge of such a servicing package. Since the start-up of the plant in 2010, Paul Wurth service specialists have regularly been present on site in order to support the customer in ...

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Kaohsiung and Luxembourg, 10 July 2013. China Steel Corporation, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, successfully commissioned on May 6, 2013 the first of two new slag granulation systems with INBA dewatering technology for CSC’s Blast Furnace No. 4 at the Kaohsiung steel works. In 2011, the Paul Wurth Group was awarded the contract for the engineering and supply of two new systems with the aim of improving the customer’s blast furnace slag production method. The construction of the second system will beg ...

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