EuroWire July 2023

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Towards a decarbonised future Tenova, a developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, will supply an electric arc furnace (EAF) equipped with Consteel® and electromagnetic stirrer Consteerrer® to POSCO for its Gwangyang plant in South Korea. such as interstitial-free grades for the automotive industries and the steel grades required by providers of electrical mobility and green power generation solutions.

enhanced safety solutions, including the Safe+ EAF water leakage detection system to dispel concerns about EAF safety and user-friendliness. “Besides requiring a radical re-thinking of the production process, an EAF of this size and power is an entirely new machine for most integral steelmakers and may understandably scare away engineers who are accustomed to the relative quietness of most BOF converters halls,” said Paolo Stagnoli, sales director at Tenova for EAF and LF. “We are committed to become a long standing partner of POSCO as we build together a new environmentally friendly and record-breaking furnace.” The new EAF’s product will be merged with the stream of liquid iron produced by the existing blast furnaces. It will be installed in a dedicated new section of the plant and is scheduled to enter production by the end of 2025. Tenova www.tenova.com

A key part of this transformation towards sustainability consists of the gradual conversion from the BF-BOF route towards electric steelmaking based on EAF. Following a two-year process of co-engineering and competitive comparison, POSCO has selected Tenova’s equipment: a full-platform EAF capable

The South Korean steelmaker, the sixth largest worldwide, is pursuing the decarbonisation of its steel products, which mostly include grades traditionally produced via the integral cycle only,

of tapping 280t of liquid steel, equipped with the Consteel continuous scrap charging system and the Consterrer electromagnetic stirring system – jointly patented by Tenova and ABB. The new EAF will be designed to match the steelmaker’s needs for quality, productivity and efficiency, and will be equipped with a full set of robotic applications and

Tenova will supply an EAF for POSCO’s Gwangyang plant

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