Converter Steelmaking
News about the production of steel using basic oxygen converters.
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Pakistani Mill Seeks Bailout To Avoid Shutdown
07 August 2015 - Pakistan Steel Mills has asked the Pakistani government for Rs5 billion in aid, plus the postponement of gas bills to avoid a shutdown, the DAWN newspaper reported.
Acquisition Talks For Tata Steel Long Products Business Unsuccessful, Company Confirms
06 August 2015 - Confirming earlier reports, Tata Steel executives said that negotiations on the sale of its European long products business have broken off.
EVRAZ NTMK Launches New Air Separation Facilities
24 July 2015 - EVRAZ NTMK commissioned two air separation facilities that will supply nitrogen, oxygen and argon to its blast furnace and converter shops.
ArcelorMittal Poland to Invest More Than €130m in Its Operations in Krakow
08 July 2015 - ArcelorMittal Poland today announced it will restart preparations for the relining of blast furnace No. 5 in Krakow, which is coming to the end of its lifecycle in mid-2016.
voestalpine Stahl GmbH to Use Robots From Primetals Technologies in Its Converter Steel Works
29 April 2015 - • Robot systems to manipulate the probes on the three converters. • Higher sublance availability and greater safety at work. • Measuring probes in exchangeable containers simplify probe handling.
Woodings Chosen to Fill Major Blast Furnace Order
01 April 2015 - Woodings Industrial Corp., a worldwide leader in the manufacture of metals industry equipment, has been selected to design, manufacture and install a substantial amount of equipment that will be a part of a leading steel producer’s rebuild of its “A” blast furnace at its southern Illinois facility.
New Fine Dust Extraction Technology from SMS Group to Be Employed by Chinese Steelmaker
25 March 2015 - Shougang Qian'An Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. has placed an order with the SMS group to retrofit its steelworks with three hydro-hybrid filter systems.
Munroe Responds to Disaster, Turns Job in 10 Days
23 March 2015 - On 27 March 2014, a major U.S. steel producer in the Great Lakes region experienced a catastrophic failure of a giant collector duct pipe that collapsed and crashed through the roof of the company’s BOP shop.
Woodings to Deliver Large Tuyere and Valve Order to Pittsburgh Steelmaker
12 March 2015 - A large Pittsburgh-based steel producer has selected Woodings Industrial to provide a sizable order of tuyere stocks and hot blast valves.
Severstal Completes Converter Upgrade, Environmental Improvement Program
04 December 2014 - The Cherepovets Steel Mill, one of the world’s largest integrated steel mills and part of the Russian Steel division of Severstal, has completed a maintenance project to upgrade its No. 1 Converter.
JSW Steel Accepts Sublance-Based Process Control Systems from Danieli Corus
11 November 2014 - On 5 October 2014, the performance acceptance tests for four sublance systems and static and dynamic process model/level 2 systems supplied by Danieli Corus and installed at the No. 2 BOF steel plant operated by JSW Steel in Toranagallu, India, were successfully completed.
Oerlikon Leybold to Deliver Record-Sized Vacuum System for Siemens VAI for AHMSA Degassing Plant
31 October 2014 - Siemens Metals Technologies has ordered another mechanical vacuum system from Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum which will be used by end customer AHMSA in Mexico.
SMS Siemag to Revamp SSAB Converter Shop
28 October 2014 - SSAB Luleå, Sweden, has awarded SMS Siemag the contract for the revamp of the converter shop and related environmental technology.
NLMK and Siemens Implement Large-Scale Environmental Project at Novolipetsk
08 October 2014 - NLMK Group has concluded a contract with Siemens VAI for undertaking the main works as part of a large-scale project of upgrading both gas exhaust equipment and emission collection and cleaning systems at the Novolipetsk BOF operations in Russia.
Metinvest Modernizing BOF at Ilyich Iron & Steel Works
06 October 2014 - In September, a large-scale general repair of basic oxygen furnace No. 1 commenced at Metinvest Group’s PJSC Ilyich Iron & Steel Works in Ukraine.
BOF Hot Trials Commence at SAIL’s Burnpur Plant
23 September 2014 - On a visit to ISP Burnpur, SAIL chairman C.S. Verma witnessed the start-up of the first basic oxygen furnace (BOF) on 14 September 2014.
Second Converter Successfully Revamped by SMS Siemag at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe
10 September 2014 - The 400-ton converter at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen works in Germany went into production immediately after the successful revamp by SMS Siemag in July 2014.
Severstal and McKinsey to Evaluate Production Efficiency of BOF Cherepovets Mill
18 July 2014 - The Cherepovets Steel Mill (CherMK), part of the Russian Steel division of OAO Severstal, announced the launch of a project in conjunction with McKinsey, a global consultancy, to improve efficiency of basic oxygen steel production.
Siemens to Modernize Off-Gas Cleaning System in Tata Steel's Converter Steel Plant
15 July 2014 - Siemens Metals Technologies has received an order from Tata Steel to modernize the secondary emission system in LD2 shop in Jamshedpur, India.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Modernizing Converter Plant, Waste Heat Boiler in Duisburg-Bruckhausen
08 July 2014 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is modernizing its No. 2 converter and associated waste-heat boiler system in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen, Germany, steelmaking plant, one of the biggest in Europe.
