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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As part of its development strategy, PAO “MMK” (Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia) will conduct a complete overhaul of its No. 2 blast furnace in 2020. After fundamental renewal and modernisation, the blast furnace will appear as a structure without a lintel ring. In this project, Paul Wurth will help MMK define the profile of the modernised furnace by considering the raw materials base and process conditions of the customer. Detail engineering will be provided for the high-heat loade ...

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In the frame of a joint stand of Luxembourg enterprises, organised by the Chamber of Commerce of the Grand-Duchy from the heart of Europe, Paul Wurth will participate in the world’s largest Industry show Hannover Messe, from 1 to 5 April 2019.With the ever-faster and ever-increasing integration of digital data and functionalities, the vision of an intelligent, self-learning industrial plant is no longer just a distant dream. For Paul Wurth, the global trend towards digitalisation offers large ...

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