News & Press Releases

Wuyang Iron and Steel has placed an order with Primetals Technologies for a 1-strand continuous caster with several record-breaking features. It is set to become the most powerful of its kind and will also produce the world’s thickest slabs, measuring up to 460 millimeters in thickness.

Salzgitter Flachstahl, a subsidiary of the Salzgitter Group, has tasked Primetals Technologies with a comprehensive upgrade of its power and electrical system for the slab sizing press in its hot-rolling mill in Salzgitter, Germany. The modernization will ensure increased availability and a future-proofed supply of spare parts.

Primetals Technologies has recently implemented the world’s largest push-pull pickling line (PPPL) at Chinese steel producer HBIS Tangsteel’s steel plant in Laoting, Hebei province, China. The core aim of Primetals Technologies’ push-pull pickling line is to enable an extraordinarily wide product range in terms of strip dimension, steel grade properties, and production capacity.

Chinese steel producer Zhongshou Special Steel Group has ordered an Arvedi ESP line from Primetals Technologies for its plant in Luanzhou, Hebei Province. A proven high quality of hot-rolled coil produced in endless mode as well as the absence of fossil fuel consumption where the main reasons behind Zhongshou’s choice of technology. 

Rizhao Steel has placed an order with Primetals Technologies to implement advanced process automation systems and technological packages at its integrated steel plant in Rizhao, China. Powerful metallurgical models, dynamic process control systems, and detailed calculations of input materials will enable full plant automation, “one-button steelmaking”, from a central control station.