News & Press Releases
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London, January 10, 2024
Primetals Technologies Upgrades Hulamin Aluminum Cold Mill Line in South Africa With Hot Edge Inductors
Recently, Primetals Technologies received an order from Hulamin for the addition of hot edge inductors as part of an upgrade to its current aluminum cold rolling mill in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. This upgrade will address strip issues such as tight edges. The enhancement will allow the plant to achieve excellent product quality and improve the overall rolling capability.
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London, December 20, 2023
Primetals Technologies Expands Workshop in China to Enhance Services of Casters, EAFs, and Rolling Mills
Primetals Technologies operates three service workshops in China, and recently, the facility located in Changxing, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, entered Phase 2 in a strategically planned extension that will further enhance the capabilities of Primetals Technologies’ Metallurgical Services organization. “Thanks to the startup of the Phase 2 facilities, Primetals Technologies will further expand its local service competences,” said Tomislav Koledic, CEO of Primetals Technologies China.
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London, December 14, 2023
Important Milestone Reached at Steelanol CCU Plant in Belgium
November 2023 saw the first industrial-scale production of ethanol at the Steelanol plant in Ghent, Belgium. This marks an important step toward full operation of the Steelanol plant. The project is a collaboration between ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, ERM, and Primetals Technologies. Steelanol is Europe’s first carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project. The plant captures carbon-rich industrial gases from the blast furnaces at ArcelorMittal Ghent and biologically converts them into ethanol.
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London, December 11, 2023
Construction Work for Slab Caster and Hot-Strip Mill to Begin at thyssenkrupp Steel in Duisburg
thyssenkrupp Steel has reached an important milestone in the major slab caster and hot-strip mill project at its Bruckhausen site in Duisburg, Germany, as the steel giant recently held a cornerstone ceremony that marked the start of on-site pre-assembly work for both continuous caster No. 4 and hot-strip mill No. 4.
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London, December 06, 2023
Primetals Technologies Receives Innovation Award for HYFOR from Austrian Government
Primetals Technologies has recently received the “National Price for Innovation” from the Austrian government. According to the Austrian government’s press release, hydrogen-based fine-ore reduction (HYFOR) is a radical direct reduction process poised to become widely applicable soon. HYFOR is recognized as the world’s first direct reduction process for iron ore fines that does not require any prior agglomeration steps.
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