The Submerged Arc Furnace (SAF) technology is continuously evolving toward the goal of bigger, safer, cleaner and more effective operations. Tenova Pyromet is supplying the industry with furnaces for ferroalloy smelting, base metal refining, slag cleaning, and waste product treatment.

Based in South Africa, Tenova Pyromet provides complete smelting plants for ferro-alloy production, as well as for base metal reduction, slag cleaning and alloy refining. The company has built many of the ferro-alloy furnaces operating in its home country – and notably 70% of the ferro-chrome furnaces built there in the last 20 years. Snapshots of the firm’s now international supply of equipment demonstrates the variety of plant now used by alloy producers around the world.

Like all areas of the steel industry, operators of submerged arc smelting plants are requiring higher productivity, safety and reliability, coupled with reductions in energy and pollution.Tenova Pyromet’s continuous improvement policy provides furnaces with a range of innovations addressing these requirements.