Oct. 2006 — Techint Goodfellow Technologies Inc. (TGTI) has received an order from Ternium Hylsa to install a Goodfellow EFSOP^™ system at the Monterrey, Mexico, plant.

The system will be installed in a scrap preheating finger shaft furnace which operates with scrap and continuous DRI pellet meltdown conditions.

The new EFSOP system will incorporate continuous off-gas based closed-loop process control of the EAF. It will continuously measure and analyze EAF off-gases (CO, CO2, H2, and O2) at the fourth hole for real-time closed-loop process control of EAF steelmaking. Techint Goodfellow Technologies says the new system will result in improved operations, energy savings, lower conversion costs and safety benefits.

This represents the first EFSOP system to be installed in an EAF furnace with continuously fed DRI.

Ternium Hylsa is a steel complex based in Mexico boasts a highly integrated value chain. Its activities cover a wide range of areas, from the extraction of iron from its own mines and the manufacture of steel to the production of finished products. Domestic demand accounts for 80% of company sales, or about 20% of total consumption at the country level. Ternium is the leading producer of flat and long steel products of Latin America and consolidates the operations of the steel companies Hylsa (Mexico), Siderar (Argentina) and Sidor (Venezuela). An annual production capacity of nearly 11.6 million tonnes makes Ternium the largest steel producer in the region, the fifth-largest in the continent and the leading exporter of finished products in the Americas.

Techint Goodfellow Technologies Inc. (TGTI) is a Canadian company located in Mississauga, Ont., and integrated as a member of Techint Technologies, the plantmaking division of Techint Group. In addition to the EAF steelmaking field, TGTI also develops and demonstrates clean technologies, based on the Goodfellow EFSOP, in other industrial fields. Specific applications include BOF steelmaking, cement, and fossil fuel power plants for the Canadian and global markets.

Techint Technologies designs and supplies a wide range of equipment and services for the metals, glass and raw materials industries.