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Bhushan Steel limited, India places order for new Coke Oven Plant in Meramandali, Orissa State

Genoa, 17 June 2008. BHUSHAN Steel, LTD. awarded the contract for the delivery of a new coke making plant at Meramandali – Dhenkanak & Angul District, Orissa, India - to Paul Wurth Italia S.p.A.. <more>


Blow-in of new TATA Steel ‘H’ blast furnace

Genova / Luxembourg, 2 June 2008. On 31st May 2008, TATA Steel successfully commissioned its new blast furnace ‘H’ at its Jamshedpur works in Jharkhand. With an inner volume of 3800 cubic meters and a daily production of 7200 tonnes of hot metal, this new blast furnace is the biggest one ever built in India. <more>


Paul Wurth: Together with customers at AISTech 2008

Luxembourg, 28 May 2008. The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition took place at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 5 – 8, 2008.  This major international conference gave the opportunity to Paul Wurth to deliver technical papers which had been prepared together with some of its customers. Two papers were related to major projects realized some months ago. <more>


New customer in Peru

Luxembourg, 23 May 2008. Paul Wurth de Chile Ltda, entity of Paul Wurth Group located in Santiago and taking more specifically care of the application of Paul Wurth and TMT technologies in non-ferrous sectors in Latin America, has been awarded a new contract for the supply of a TMT tapping machine by Doe Run Peru, a Peruvian mining and metallurgical company, for its multi-metal smelting and processing facilities located in the city of La Oroya in Peru (3.720 m.a.s.l). <more>


Entry of Mini-BLT® Technology in Russia

Luxembourg, 21 May 2008. The Paul Wurth Group has developed since the mid 90’s a specific charging Bell Less Top® device perfectly fitting the constraints of small size blast furnaces: the Mini-BLT®. This charging system is directly derived from the well known BLT® technology and is specially designed for charging less than 2000 tonnes of burden material per day. More than 140 Mini-BLT® have been put already in operation in China and some others in Western Europe. <more>


2007 – Enlarged technological portfolio and increased profitability

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Luxembourg, 13 May 2008.The ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Paul Wurth S.A. was held today, May 13, 2008 and approved the financial statements for the year 2007.

In 2007, Paul Wurth once again recorded strong growth, confirming the transformation the Group has undergone since several years. All key indicators show an upward trend: sales, staff and results. For the fourth year in a row, the Group contracted a record amount of new orders.<more>


Reconducted ISO 9001 certification for Paul Wurth S.A.

Luxembourg, 12 May 2008. Paul Wurth S.A. was successfully reconducted in the certification of its Quality Management System according to the ISO 9001 standard further to a complete audit which has been realized from 5 to 9 May 2008 by Bureau Veritas. <more>


Lucchini S.p.A. orders basic engineering and hearth relining

Genova, 29 April 2008. In the context of the rebuild of its BF4 in Piombino Works, Italy, Lucchini S.p.A. awarded Paul Wurth Italia S.p.A. on 13th March 2008 an order for basic engineering and the supply of carbon materials for the hearth, including detail and construction engineering, performance tests and site supervision. <more>


Paul Wurth Italia to build first coke oven battery in Japan

Genova, 29 April 2008. On 14 April 2008, SUMITOMO Metal Industries, Ltd and Paul Wurth Italia S.p.A. officially signed a contract for the delivery of the new coke oven plant N°1E in Kashima Works, Ibaraki, Japan. This will be the first coke oven battery ever supplied by Paul Wurth in Japan. <more>


Paul Wurth at Expomin (Santiago de Chile)

Luxembourg, 25 April 2008. From 15 till 18 April, the Paul Wurth Group has been present at the 2008 edition of Expomin, the main fair dedicated to mining and metallurgy in South America. More specifically focusing on the non-ferrous industry, this worldwide recognised event gave Paul Wurth the opportunity to present, through its Chilean entity, specific applications of its engineering services and equipment. <more>


Yenakievo to install Paul Wurth technology

Luxembourg, 08.04.2008. With a production of 42.8 mtpa of crude steel in 2007, Ukraine is among the ten biggest producers of crude steel in the world. The iron and steelmaking sector provides around 25% of the industrial output of the country. Its dynamic trend (+ 5% in 2007) leads to the redistribution of the assets among local and international steel groups and to the modernization of the production tools. <more>


PAUL WURTH: A team-working Group

Luxembourg, 08.04.2008. 1,300 people split in 23 entities throughout the world have to work closely together for coordinating day-to-day actions, preparing and executing projects as well as defining objectives and strategies regarding technical and business development. Such short, medium and long-term challenges require quick and efficient communication. <more>


PAUL WURTH: Confirmed Certification of Safety Management System

Luxembourg, 07.04.2008. Paul Wurth S.A., its subsidiary Geprolux S.A. as well as its affiliated company TMT s.à r.l. (joint company of Dango & Dienenthal GmbH and Paul Wurth S.A.) have been certified for their safety management system according to the VCA-SCC** Safety Checklist Contractors standard (Version 2004) since the year 2005. <more>


PAUL WURTH UK LTD – Latest News

Luxembourg, 27.02.2008. With the great success of our Road Show on Monday February 25th and the subsequent large feedback from candidates, we would like to provide an update on our activities, progress and plans for Paul Wurth UK Ltd. <more>


Set-up and development of Paul Wurth UK Ltd

Luxembourg, 18 February 2008. To meet the increasing demands of our UK and worldwide customers, Paul Wurth has decided to expand its operations with the formation of a new entity, denominated PAUL WURTH UK LIMITED and planned to operate out of North-East England.<more>


AMK Alchevsk / Ukraine places order for Blast Furnace No.2 key equipment

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Luxembourg, 08 January 2008. A new blast furnace No. 2 becomes the centrepiece of AMK’s hot metal capacity expansion and modernization at their integrated steel plant in Alchevsk.<more>


Nonfemet adopts Paul Wurth’s Large Size Cathodes for its new 100 000 tpy zinc cell house

Luxembourg, 07 September 2007. As part of its plan to increase the capacity of its Danxia Lead and Zinc smelter, Nonfemet has decided to use large size cathodes (LSC) of 3,2 m2 and apply full automated devices and equipment for handling and processing the electrodes. The new zinc cell house will have a yearly capacity of 100 000 tonnes zinc. <more>


NLMK Lipetsk places orders for the construction of a new Blast Furnace

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Luxembourg, 03 August 2007. A new, modern blast furnace, becoming No. 7, will be the centrepiece of NLMK’s hot metal capacity expansion at their Lipetsk plant in Russia. Seized at 13.1 m hearth diameter, it will deliver 3.4m tpy of hot metal to the steelmaking shops. <more>


Dofasco will install PCI Plant

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Luxembourg, 02 August 2007. Dofasco of Canada awarded the Paul Wurth Group with an order for engineering a plant for generation and injection of pulverized coal for the blast furnaces No. 2 and 4 at their Hamilton, ON, works. <more>


Vizag Blast Furnace No. 3 contracted to Larsen & Toubro and Paul Wurth

Luxembourg, 29 May 2007. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) awarded a contract to a consortium of Paul Wurth Italia S.p.A., Paul Wurth India Pvt. Ltd and Larsen & Toubro Ltd for the delivery of the new BF3 for Vizag Steel Plant, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in India. <more>


2006 – Paul Wurth confirms its leadership

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Luxembourg, 8 May 2007.The ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Paul Wurth S.A. was held today, May 8, 2007 under the chairmanship of Mr. Michel Wurth.

Given the ongoing strong growth of the world steel industry and judicious strategic decisions made in the past which have transformed Paul Wurth into a global solution provider, the year 2006 was marked by important commercial successes for projects of unparalleled size. <more>


Hyundai Steel Company places order with Paul Wurth S.A. for the development of the core parts of its new blast furnaces plant in Dangjin, South Korea

Luxembourg, 23 April 2007. The milestones at Hyundai Steel Company history will be the two blast furnaces for producing 8 Mio tonnes per year of hot metal at the first stage. Sized at 14.9 m hearth diameter each – some of the largest in the world - they will be the first Blast Furnaces within the Hyundai Group. <more>


Health and Safety at Paul Wurth: a huge response

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Luxembourg, 6 March 2007. The second edition of the group-wide “Health & Safety Day”, an initiative of the Arcelor Mittal Group, was a full success at Paul Wurth S.A. in Luxembourg as well as in the Paul Wurth entities worldwide. <more>


NLMK will install PCI Plants

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Luxembourg, 22 January 2007. In the frame of their modernisation programme OAO “Novolipetskij metallurgicheskij kombinat” (NLMK), Lipetsk/Russia, awarded Paul Wurth S.A., Luxembourg, with an order for engineering a plant for generation and injection of pulverized coal for the blast furnaces No. 3, 4 and 5 at their Lipetsk works. <more>


SeverStal North America Orders Equipment for Blast Furnace C Rebuild

Luxembourg, 24 October 2006. SeverStal North America, Inc. will completely rebuild and modernize their “C” Blast Furnace at Dearborn, MI. <more>


DRAGON STEEL awards construction of a PRIMUS® Recycling Plant to PAUL WURTH

Luxembourg, 16 October 2006. For the expansion of their Taichung (Taiwan) steelmaking facilities, DRAGON STEEL CORPORATION has contracted PAUL WURTH for the construction of a new PRIMUS® plant for recycling stockpiled and future fine material (dusts, sludge, etc.) from their existing Electric Arc Furnace shops and from future sinter plants, blast furnaces and BOF steelmaking. <more>


New Technology for Sintering Off-Gas Cleaning

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Luxembourg, 28 September 2006. ROGESA Ironworks commissioned an innovative gas cleaning system at their Dillingen sinter plant in Germany. <more>


2005 – A year of expansion for an international player

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Luxembourg , May 9, 2006. The ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Paul Wurth S.A. was held today, May 9, 2006 under the chairmanship of Mr. Michel Wurth.

Benefiting from significant growth in the world steel industry and subsequent investment projects in all major markets, Paul Wurth’s consolidated performance was excellent during 2005, exceeding even the good results of the year 2004. This remarkable improvement is mainly attributable to the Group’s growth policy. <more>


Contract awarded to Paul Wurth for the construction of ThyssenKrupp Steel’s blast furnace 8 in Hamborn

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Luxembourg , 6 April 2006. Centerpiece of a modernization program for the hot metal base of ThyssenKrupp Steel is the construction of the new blast furnace 8 in Duisburg-Hamborn. With a hearth diameter of 10.74 m, the new blast furnace will allow a production of 2.0 million t/year of hot metal.  <more>


TURBOFILTER GmbH to join the Paul Wurth Group

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Luxembourg, 5 January 2006. As from 1 January 2006, Turbofilter GmbH has joined the Paul Wurth Group, after both parties had signed an agreement end of last year on the acquisition of a 65% shareholding by Paul Wurth Umwelttechnik GmbH in Turbofilter GmbH <more>


Severstal commissions No. 4 Blast Furnace

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Luxembourg, 19 December 2005. After a complete rebuild and modernization, Severstal re-commissioned No. 4 Blast Furnace at their Cherepovets works in Russia on 18 December 2005. <more>


Paul Wurth: Certification of safety management system

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Luxembourg, 12 December 2005. Paul Wurth S.A., its subsidiary Geprolux S.A. as well as its affiliated company TMT s.à r.l. (joint company of Dango & Dienenthal GmbH and Paul Wurth S.A.) have received the certification of their safety management system according to the SCC** Safety Checklist Contractors standard (Version 2004). <more>


Paul Wurth technology to equip Angang blast furnaces

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Luxembourg, 8 December 2005. On 4 December 2005, Angang Group New Iron & Steel Co. (Anshan) has successfully blown-in its new No. 2 blast furnace, for which the Paul Wurth Group provided most performing equipment and technology. With a hearth diameter of 12.4 m and an effective volume of 3200 m3 (from max. charging level to the taphole), the new blast furnace has a production capacity of 2.5 Mio t hot metal/year. <more>


Paul Wurth - Global Supplier of Ironmaking Technologies

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Luxembourg, 12 July 2005. As from July 1st, 2005, Paul Wurth S.A. has taken over the blast furnace, coke making and direct reduction activities as well as the staff from SMS Demag S.p.A. in Genoa, Italy.

Through this acquisition, the Luxembourg-based Group, which has a long tradition in blast furnace design, construction and specialized equipment, will substantially broaden its capabilities in ironmaking technology. <more>


Paul Wurth to acquire DME

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Luxembourg, 21 December 2004. Paul Wurth S.A., Luxembourg, has purchased on 20.12.2004 the engineering company Didier - M&P Energietechnik GmbH ("DME"), Wiesbaden.  <more>


Paul Wurth in Consortium for the Construction of New Blast Furnace at CST

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Brazil's Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST) is extending its existing steelworks in Serra, ES Brazil, by adding a new blast furnace (BF3) capable of producing 2.8 million t/year of hot metal, which increases its total annual capacity to 7.5 million tons of finished product.  <more>