Luxembourg, 13 September 2018. FEDIL - The Voice of Luxembourg’s Industry and Paul Wurth InCub, the structure created by Paul Wurth to accompany young industrial entrepreneurs, are pleased to announce the signature of a partnership agreement on this Thursday, 13 September 2018, aimed at supporting the development of “Industrial Technologies”, so-called InduTech, in Luxembourg.In line with its commitment to make the Luxembourg industry thrive by attracting and developing innovative talents,

The first hot coke has been charged into the CDQ#11 coke dry quenching unit at Tata Steel’s integrated steel plant at Jamshedpur, state of Jharkhand, in India, in spring 2018.The corresponding contract was signed in March 2015, when Tata Steel, Ltd. awarded this order to Paul Wurth in the frame of a consortium set-up with Larsen & Toubro as construction partner. Paul Wurth’s part was the engineering, supply of technological equipment, training and supervision of erection and commissionin

Paul Wurth is pleased to announce the go-live of its brand-new career website.This website is the result of an employer branding project which has been implemented with the support of motivated colleagues from various departments. Under the slogan “Join the Pioneers” it primarily addresses potential candidates such as students, youngsters and professionals who are interested in Paul Wurth as an employer. The objective is to give them an overview of the company’s main business fields, value

Severstal and Paul Wurth have recently signed a contract for the construction of a New Coke Making Complex at Severstal’s integrated steel works at Cherepovets in the North-West of Russia. Core parts of the new complex are two brand-new, stamp charged coke batteries, for which Paul Wurth executed the “Project Documentation”, an extended version of Basic Engineering, in the months before. Now, Severstal confirmed its trust in Paul Wurth by placing this consecutive order which covers so-call

On June 29, 2018, Paul Wurth and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) have agreed to extend and expand their joint collaboration on data-driven value services towards the goal of fully realizing an actionable Industry 4.0 roadmap.Innovative predictive analyticsThis agreement builds on the existing collaboration initiated more than one year ago, whereby the parties have been working on innovative predictive analytics to improve customer processes and deliver new services. Off

On 8 June 2018, Paul Wurth S.A. and the German company DSD KOCH Industrieanlagen GmbH signed an Asset Purchase Agreement regarding the purchase of assets of KOCH’s coke oven machine segment by the Paul Wurth Group. Thanks to this acquisition, Paul Wurth takes over the patents and property rights, references, drawings, licenses, brand name and know-how of the Saarlouis-based company, specialised in the field of coke oven machines for stamp charged batteries. After the acquisition in 2014 of the

Within the frame of their long-term development strategy aiming at domestic steel supply for growing India, the country’s state-owned Steel Authority of India, Ltd. (SAIL) awarded to Paul Wurth and Larsen & Toubro an order for the construction of a brand new blast furnace ironmaking plant for additional 2.8 million tons of hot metal capacity, in summer 2010. At Bhilai Steel Plant in the State of Chhattisgarh, where the existing BF plant consists of seven mid-size furnaces of Soviet design

Luxembourg, 8 May 2018. Under the chairmanship of Michel Wurth, the Ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Société Anonyme Paul WURTH was held on 8 May 2018 to approve amongst others the financial statements of the year 2017.While the steel industry still evolves in a challenging business climate, Paul Wurth is strengthening its position as a reliable technology partner and offers its customers appropriate solutions based on both long-lasting know-how and innovative, future-oriented

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 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on May 07 – 10th, 2018.At the exhibition, Paul Wurth’s representatives will showcase the company’s products in the frame of a common booth of the SMS group.In the frame of the AISTech conference, our colleagues will present the results of a major blast furnace modernization project and of a ne

In 2016, EVRAZ Group of Russia has decided to build a new blast furnace for developing and balancing their hot metal and steel capacities at EVRAZ-NTMK, Nizhny Tagil. This new ironmaking unit became No. 7 BF at this site. It is of similar design as the existing No. 5 and No. 6 furnaces which have been completely rebuilt and modernised in 2004-2006. The new furnace has been put in operation on the 28th of February, 2018. At hearth diameters of 9.8 meters and inner volumes of 2,200 cubic meters, w

ArcelorMittal Temirtau recently awarded Paul Wurth with a contract for engineering, equipment supply as well as supervision services for erection and commissioning in relation to the revamping of the Coke Oven Gas Treatment & By-Product Plant at Temirtau works, Kazakhstan. The modernised plant will serve the 6 existing coke oven batteries and will have a COG treatment capacity of 145,000 Nm3/h. The order includes upgrading of the existing tar decanting plant and the supply of a new primary g

On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 took place the fourth Paul Wurth Award ceremony in Luxembourg.This year, four young talents were rewarded for having contributed their Master theses to the scientific advancement of energy-related and environmental issues. The competition is in line with Paul Wurth’s principle of continuous innovation and technological advance of its products and technologies and goes hand in hand with the purpose of promoting and encouraging young engineers at the beginning of th

Luxembourg/Beijing, 22 January 2018. On Monday, the 18th of December 2017, at 19:16 local time, Shandong Steel Group Rizhao blew in their first Blast Furnace at a new production site which shall help to phase out older ironmaking facilities in the group. Just 26 hours later, the first hot metal has been tapped from the furnace for which Paul Wurth supplied top charging and slag granulation technology.The current phase of construction consists of two Blast Furnaces with 5,100 cubic meters inner v