News & Press Releases

London, June 10, 2025

Primetals Technologies and MAEGMA plan to implement a new MIDREX Flex direct reduction plant with an annual capacity of 2 million tons of high-quality hot briquetted iron (HBI) to address Southeast Asia's demand for ore-based metallics. 

London, January 15, 2025

Chinese steel producer HBIS XuanHua Iron and Steel Group and Primetals Technologies have recently started up a slab caster with an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons at a low-carbon-emission production facility in China. Primetals Technologies supplied the full mechanical scope along with complete Level 1 and 2 automation systems. 

London, November 27, 2024

Marcegaglia Stainless Sheffield, based in the UK, has partnered with Primetals Technologies to optimize production processes across its Sheffield minimill. The modernization project aims to significantly increase the plant's annual production capacity from 250,000 tons to 500,000 tons.

London, September 28, 2023

An integrated quality control, production management, and transportation system from Primetals Technologies recently went into operation at ArcelorMittal Mexico’s production site in Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. The new solution orchestrates the entire quality management process in the hot-rolling mill and skin-pass mill.

London, September 19, 2023

Primetals Technologies has recently started up ESP line No. 2 at a Chinese steel producer in Hebei province, China. The customer’s first ESP line is in full operation since 2021. Line No. 2 is the 9th ESP line to be put into operation in the world. Thanks to the close and effective collaboration between Primetals Technologies and the Chinese steel producer, the startup of its second ESP line was exceptional in terms of swiftness and efficiency. The first hot-rolled coil was produced in endless mode only nine weeks after the beginning of cold commissioning, and the first coil of 0.8 millimeter thickness was produced just 50 days after.