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

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

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

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

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 �

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

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

Luxembourg, 13 March 2019. By October 2020, EVRAZ will complete a technical upgrade of No. 6 Blast Furnace of their integrated steel works NTMK located at Nizhnij Tagil in the Urals, Russia. The modernization will concern all systems of the existing installation and enables increasing the nominal capacity by about 40% compared to the previous campaign design. With a hearth diameter of 9.8 meters and an inner volume of 2,200 cubic meters, the new furnace will be able to produce 2.5 million tons o

Joint focus on green hydrogen by industrialisation of electrolysis and Power-to-Liquid technology for large scale commercial projects. Plant builder Paul Wurth provides access to global metals industry, which increasingly uses renewable hydrogen. Current Sunfire investors participate again in new round. Dresden & Luxembourg, 7 January 2019. Sunfire GmbH, developer and manufacturer of high efficient electrolysers and fuel cells, secured 25 million euros venture capital in a series C f