The close ties that Paul Wurth has with steelmakers throughout the world regularly create business opportunities in the steelworks sector too. In this area, Paul Wurth has developed specific equipment providing innovative solutions that focus on operation safety, productivity improvement and environment.

Paul Wurth’s portfolio in steelmaking technology includes:

• Hot metal pretreatment (desulphurisation, desilication, dephosphorisation)
• For BOF steelplants:
  • LBE process
  • converter gas cleaning and dedusting systems
  • blowing lances and lance handling equipment (Lancarfix^® )
• For ladle treatment:
  • automatic ladle couplings for stirring gas
  • H-ALT^®  (Heating Advanced Ladle Treatment) chemical reheating technology
• For EAF: Hot metal charging into electric furnaces