In a statement, the company said the order was received from Italian steelmaker Ferriere Nord for its plant in Potenza.

“The CATFIS manipulator is a simple and reliable device for temperature/carbon/oxygen/sample measuring and has been developed to accelerate operations and improve operator safety,” the company said in a statement.

“It falls within the ZERO MEN AROUND concept, the new approach for removing human operation and managing electric arc furnaces in fully automatic mode.”