News & Press Releases

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.

London, October 11, 2024

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.

London, October 09, 2024

Blast Furnace No.1 at Dragon Steel Corporations (DSC) plant in Taichung, Taiwan was originally designed, supplied, built, and commissioned by Primetals Technologies in 2010. As part of a revamp, DSC is replacing the full set of staves to the original design with the addition of ten staves containing Primetals Technologies’ patented wear-resistant copper staves and anti-bending solution.