With 16 furnaces operating worldwide and three more presentely on order, the Consteel® process has established itself as a reliable method to enhance EAF steel production.

Trends towards thinner hot rolled strip tend to require more highly powered finishing mills or thinner, hotter transfer bars. The ATF situated between rougher and finishing mill improves temperature uniformity, particularly at the end of the bar.

New high-performace effluent-free strip pickling lines provide cost-effectiveness, improved product quality and an environmentally safe process combined with minimum maintenance.

Push-pull pickling lines are a new concept of processing lines, whose market is growing in order to satisfy requirements of flexibility for medium or low annual production.

While the widening variety of colours applied to metal substrates catch the eye in end-uses from domestic appliances to cladding for buildings, the equipment used for coating seldom receives attention.

With 21 installations worldwide and 4 more presently pending, the Goodfellow EFSOP® off-gas chemistry measurement and control system has established itself as a proven technology to optimize  the EAF and to bring steelmakers reduced conversion costs, increased safety  and environmental benefits.

 With the acquisition by Tenova of HYL Technologies, Tenova is now the second largest international producer of DRI with 12 modules producing more than 7Mt of DRI a year.

The steel industry is strongly committed to both saving energy and improving the environmental performance of its plants and products through research and development activities.

The furnace industry in the last years devoted the most of the research efforts to the development of new firing techniques, seeing the possibility with them to both grant better thermal performaces and considerably reduce pollutant emissions.

Wheeling - Pittsburgh Steel has installed a large meltshop at their  site in Mingo Junction, Ohio (USA) replacing one blast furnace. It is equipped with the biggest Consteel® meltshop ever built.