News & Press Releases

Saarstahl has placed a significant order with Primetals Technologies for a new substation, to be located at its plant in Völklingen, Germany. The new power supply solution will serve as the link between the power grid and a new, not yet implemented, electric arc furnace plant. 

The Upper Austrian innovation award is given to companies that fuel progress through ground-breaking technologies. Primetals Technologies’ team that received the award has been developing the Smelter since 2022. This solution is a furnace powered by electrical energy used for melting and final reduction of direct reduced iron (DRI) based on lower-grade iron ores. It produces alternative green hot metal for the steelmaking plant. 

Primetals Technologies has recently completed an installation at Baoshan Iron and Steel in Shanghai, China, for a new combination mill featuring both a wire rod mill outlet and bar-in-coil line. The new mill is specifically designed to increase rolling mill capacity and expand size range.

Chinese special steel producer Huaigang Special Steel has recently granted the final acceptance certificate (FAC) to Primetals Technologies for an 80-ton EAF Quantum electric arc furnace implemented at a site in Huai'an, Jiangsu province. This EAF Quantum offers remarkable production flexibility, achieving single heats with tap-to-tap times of 32 minutes.

On October 11, German steel producer Dillinger and its subsidiary ROGESA signed contracts with Primetals Technologies for the supply of a new production complex, which includes a DRI plant, contracted along with Midrex Technologies, and an EAF Ultimate electric arc furnace plant including two twin ladle furnaces. These solutions from Primetals Technologies will support Dillinger and ROGESA to meet their goal of reducing CO₂ emissions by 4.8 million tons per year within six years.