Originally conceived and negotiated with a Brazilian steelmaker as a typical Stove Hot Repair performed at an installation height of up to 16 m, the Paul Wurth’s contract scope was extended to repairs at elevated heights after an endoscopy detected unexpected damage in the combustion chamber division wall. When the final scope was set, the hot repair extended to a height of 23 m. It is the first time ever that a hot repair was performed at these high levels.Paul Wurth started the repair proced

In the frame of the visit of the Paul Wurth company by Francine Closener, Secretary of State of the Economy, on 2 December 2015, Paul Wurth S.A. and Technoport® signed a cooperation agreement on the setting up of a support programme for new technological and innovative companies.For Paul Wurth, the initiative consists in hosting within its incubator, called Paul Wurth InCub, young companies searching for support in the development and implementation of their entrepreneurial projects. These star

In March 2015, following a decision of the Government of Italy, ILVA had to shut down No. 5 Blast Furnace, the largest one at Taranto works. The plant shall be upgraded by EU-defined Best Available Technologies in order to match latest environmental standards.As a result of the bidding process, the Paul Wurth group has been awarded several packages for engineering, supply and installation of technologies which will make up a state-of-the-art ironmaking facility.On the side of hot blast generatio

Project Awarded to Midrex and Paul Wurth for 2.5 MTPY HDRI/CDRI Plant in Algeria June 22, 2015 (Charlotte, NC – USA)   Tosyali Holding has awarded Midrex Technologies, Inc. and its partner Paul Wurth S.A. the project to build the world’s largest multiple product direct reduced iron plant for Tosyali Algeria located in Bethioua (Oran), Algeria.The new MIDREX NG™ Direct Reduction Plant Combo will be designed to produce 2.5 million tons of DRI and have the capability to va

In August 2013, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH (SZFG), Germany, had awarded the Paul Wurth Group with a turn-key order for the construction of a pulverised coal injection (PCI) plant for Blast Furnaces ‘A’ and ‘B’ at their Salzgitter integrated steel plant.As SZFG announced already on May 4, the plant has started operation in spring 2015 and helps now to reduce the cost of ironmaking operations.The plant features two coal grinding and drying plants of 50 tons per hour capacity each. The inje

Luxembourg, 12 May 2015. Under the chairmanship of Michel Wurth, the ordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Société Anonyme Paul WURTH was held today on 12 May 2015 to approve amongst others the financial statements of the year 2014. The further extension of its product and service portfolio towards a global solution provider and new environment and energy-focussed developments allow Paul Wurth Group to meet its customers’ expectations, also in a more difficult market environment.Econom

On 8 April 2015, Paul Wurth S.A. and the Taiwan-based steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) signed a Co-operation Agreement in the field of upcoming ironmaking plant construction projects in the Southeast Asian region, including material handling, sinter plants, blast furnaces and direct reduction plants.Both parties decided to take joint efforts in order to promote the development of the Asian ironmaking industry according to a common marketing strategy and to co-operate on a non-exclusive b

From May 4th until May 7th, 2015, the Association for Iron & Steel Technology will gather the North American and international steelmaking society for their annual AISTech Congress and Exhibition at Cleveland, Ohio. This time, AISTech 2015 hosts also ICSTI 2015 — The 7th International Congress on the Science and Technology of Ironmaking.In the course of the conference programme, technology news and some of Paul Wurth’s highlight plant building competences will be presented by the followi

EVRAZ ZSMK, Novokuznetsk, Russia has issued in favour of Paul Wurth a Final Acceptance Certificate for the pulverised coal injection plant designed and delivered by the Luxembourg-based plant builder.Two coal grinding and drying plants, with a capacity of 88 t/h each feed pulverised coal to the individual injection plants of all three blast furnaces of the “Zapsib” site with a total hot metal capacity of 18,700 tons per day.Earlier, it was EVRAZ NTMK at Nizhnij Tagil where the first adoption

On 27 January 2015, Paul Wurth and SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust of the University of Luxembourg, have signed a Partnership Framework Agreement for a strategic collaboration. The common goal of this four-year collaboration is to foster research projects and develop marketable applications in the field of automation, control systems and smart building.As a company of the Paul Wurth Group, the Luxembourg-based Paul Wurth Geprolux is specialised in the manage

In 2014, Paul Wurth S.A. organised for the first time the Paul Wurth Award in recognition of outstanding Master Theses in the field of energy and environment. The aim of this prize is to foster young Luxembourgish students in engineering and sciences who are doing research work in the domain of environmental technology or energy, resp. energy recovery approaches.For this first edition, Paul Wurth recognised two students - Roberto Palumbo and Eric Gonderinger - with the winner award and a money p

Grand Prix en Sciences de l’Institut Grand-DucalIn cooperation with the “Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)” and several private sponsors, the “Section des Sciences Naturelles, physiques et mathématiques de l’Institut Grand-ducal” beginning with the year 2010, has awarded each year a researcher (m/f) for either his or her complete work or an exceptional discovery. To be eligible for the award, the researcher must be a Luxembourgian national or a researcher working or having worked