Coke plant operators around the world have ordered so far at least 2100 SOPRECO® valves, thus proving how much our customers appreciate the robust design of Paul Wurth SOPRECO valve and its efficient and reliable control of the single coke oven chamber pressure with very little efforts on maintenance. Paul Wurth SOPRECO valves avoid emissions from coke oven doors and lids throughout the complete coking cycle and coal charging process.Our patented Single Oven PREssure COntrol system, SOPRECO, in

Compañia Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A. (CSH) and Paul Wurth Italia S.p.A., a company of SMS group, have signed a Technological Cooperation Agreement to explore the viability for transitioning CAP steelmaking operations towards the production of low carbon steel in Chile along the complete value chain.This partnership joins Chile’s leading mining and steelmaking companies affiliated to the CAP Group and Paul Wurth, a global leader in low carbon technologies for the steelmaking industry. The par

Paul Wurth S.A., a company of SMS group, and the University of Luxembourg have entered into an agreement to create and finance the Paul Wurth Chair in Energy Process Engineering. The 5-year agreement was signed on 4 March 2021 by Yves Elsen, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University, Prof. Stéphane Pallage, Rector of the University, Georges Rassel, CEO of Paul Wurth Group, and Hans-Jürgen Leßmann, Senior Vice-President, Global Human Resources of Paul Wurth Group.The chair will be h

LIBERTY Steel, Paul Wurth and SHS - Stahl-Holding-Saar sign Memorandum of Understanding to develop a major hydrogen-based steel making plant in France Pan-European partnership will assess the development of a 1 GW hydrogen plant and 2 million tonne DRI plant next to the ALVANCE Aluminium Dunkerque site An important step in LIBERTY’s GREENSTEEL strategy and ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030 LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has s

Rio Tinto, Paul Wurth S.A. and SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar GmbH & Co. KGaA (SHS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the production of a low-carbon steel feedstock. This partnership brings together a leading global miner, an international leader in the design and supply of engineering solutions for integrated steelmakers and one of Europe’s best-known steelmakers.The partnership will explore the viability of transforming iron ore pellets into low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI

DataThings S.A. (‘Datathings’) is proud to announce the injection of fresh capital as a result of Paul Wurth S.A. and Encevo S.A. taking a minority stake of 10.3% each in the company.Founded in 2017 as a spin-off company from SnT / University of Luxembourg and hosted since then at Paul Wurth InCub, DataThings develops intelligent software systems based on its main technology GreyCat®. Being at the core of the company’s products and R&D services, GreyCat® is a next generation data ana

After the start-up procedures and hot commissioning activities have been successfully completed, Severstal pushed first coke from Block 1 of its brand-new coke oven battery No. 11 at its integrated steel works at Cherepovets, Russia, on 27 November 2020. Subsequently, the coke dry quenching plant #3 also started up.This is a decisive milestone in Severstal’s project of building a new cokemaking complex, comprising two coke oven batteries (Block 1 & Block 2) with 56 coke ovens each and desi

Paul Wurth proudly announces that the company has been awarded recent orders for engineering services, the supply of coke oven machines as well as of SOPRECO® valves to be implemented at two new Jumbo coke oven batteries of stamp charging type built by the end customer Xinxing Ductile Pipe Co., Ltd. in Handan City, Hebei Province, China. The Chinese customer is relying on proven Paul Wurth stamp charging technology for large-size batteries of the next generation.In the frame of a cooperation ag

Taiwan’s largest steel company China Steel Corporation (CSC) has chosen Paul Wurth to supply state-of-the-art coke making technology for a new coke oven complex to be built at CSC’s Kaohsiung steel mill.Paul Wurth’s scope will comprise two batteries, two sets of coke oven machines and the upstream portion of a new coke oven gas treatment plant. For these plant units, the contract, which was officially signed on 24 November 2020, includes engineering, supply of key equipment as well as supe