Today’s News from Abroad installment highlights some of the ups and downs in the global heat treating market which are largely driven by new technologies and sustainability initiatives. In growth news, a heat treater expands its product line with industrial furnaces and technologies and an Italian company invests in sustainable technology. In addition, a UK steelmaker closes its last remaining blast furnace.
Heat Treat Today partners with two international publications to deliver the latest news, tech tips, and cutting-edge articles that will serve our audience — manufacturers with in-house heat treat. heat processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbHa publication, serves mostly the European and Asian heat treat markets, and Furnaces International, a Quartz Business Media publication, primarily serves the English-speaking globe.
Heat Treater Expands Product Line To Include Vacuum Furnaces
Source: AICHELIN
“AICHELIN Group has expanded its product range to include innovative industrial vacuum furnaces and technologies. The modern, flexible, and environmentally friendly solutions were presented for the first time at the ‘HärtereiKongress’ in Cologne from October 8 to 10. The new vacuum furnaces are sold, designed, and produced by the joint venture company AICHELIN ST Vacuum GmbH, which was founded in May. With the addition of this important market segment, AICHELIN is now a full-service provider for heat treatment solutions.”
READ MORE: “AICHELIN expands into the industrial vacuum furnace market” – at heat-processing.com
Italian Company Boosts Green Transition With Investment in ARP
Source: Tenova
“Tenova, a developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, has been awarded a contract by Delna S.p.A., an ArcelorMittal CLN Distribuzione Italia Group company and primary provider of pickling service of coils and wire rod, for its plant in Brivio, Italy, for an acid regeneration plant (ARP) with a capacity of 2.000 l/h. Delna’s investment will boost the green transition of its plant, recovering the waste acid used in its pickling line and therefore minimizing its environmental footprint. The new ARP will be equipped with the BLUEdriven™ cutting-edge package solutions that will be controlled by a customized monitoring process, increasing production flexibility and optimizing operative costs, while guaranteeing minimal environmental impact.”
READ MORE: “Tenova to supply an Acid Regeneration Plant for Delna in Italy“ at heat-processing.com.
UK Steel plant shutters last remaining blast furnace
Source: Tata Steel
“Tata Steel has begun the process of winding down operations at blast furnace 4 at Port Talbot and engineers have already started altering the raw materials poured into the top of the furnace to prepare for decommissioning. Blast furnace 5 was closed in July. The closure is part of Tata’s transition towards a greener form of steelmaking as it plans to build a £1.25 billion electric arc furnace for the Port Talbot site by 2027, which produces steel by melting scrap metal. The new Labour government agreed a taxpayer-backed deal earlier this month for the Port Talbot plant in which it will provide £500 million towards the construction of the new electric arc furnace at the site, with the plant’s Indian owners, Tata Steel, paying £750 million.”
READ MORE: “Tata Steel’s UK plant shutters last remaining blast furnace” at furnaces-international.com.
