News & Press Releases

London, October 28, 2024

Primetals Technologies recently renewed two contracts with a leading steel producer in the Americas for maintenance services of several continuous casters. The ongoing services from Primetals Technologies will ultimately result in several improvements related to overall plant performance, like increased lifetime and reduced downtime.

London, October 24, 2024

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. 

London, October 23, 2024

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. 

London, October 22, 2024

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.

London, October 17, 2024

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.