EuroWire May 2021

Corporate News

New Setic and Pourtier point of contact for US and Canadian markets

Setic, Pourtier and their service depart- ment C2S have appointed the Gauder Group, Inc, located in North Carolina, USA, and Alain Hawaux as a new point of contact for sourcing services for Setic and Pourtier equipment. Mr Hawaux has been serving customers for many years and is experienced in all

aspects of services for rotating machine equipment. C2S service division, based in France, will assist Gauder Group. US and Canadian customers can direct communications for services, technical questions, requests for quotations and purchase orders to

Alain Havaux, after-sales service manager C2S – North America. Gauder Group, Inc ah@setic.info Setic sas www.setic.info

Hydrogen reducing agent demo plant Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has commis- sioned Tenova for the construction of μDRAL, a demonstration plant for the production of direct reduced iron (DRI) using up to 100 per cent hydrogen as reducing agent. The plant is based on the Energiron® technology and will be installed on the premises of the Salzgitter steel mill at Salzgitter, Germany. in terms of fluctuating availabilities of reducing agents, including 100 per cent hydrogen. The DRI produced by μDRAL will be used both in the blast furnace process to save injected coal and in the electric arc furnace of the Peine plant. “The new direct reduction plant is the next step toward realizing the SALCOS® approach,” said Markus Dorndorf,

by Tenova and Danieli, represents the base for the plant design. The high-intensity H2 DR system is designed for low CO 2 emissions while processing iron ore pellets. This enables Salzgitter to achieve long-term CO 2 reduction targets. Energiron was recently selected by HBIS Group for the first gas-based DR plant in China, and by OMK in Russia for the production of high-quality steel grades. Tenova www.tenova.com

The μDRAL will have a nominal pro- duction capacity of 100kg/h and will be operated with hydrogen and natural gas, showing the flexibility of the technology

business development director, iron and steelmaking, at Tenova LOI Thermprocess.

The Energiron process, jointly developed

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