TPT March 2013

Furnaces and

heat treatment

Furnaces and heat treatment

Photo: Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd, UK

The basic oxygen furnace (BOF) is basic by name and by nature – even if it was named for the magnesia refractory lining, which wears through contact with hot (basic) slags. The process dominated by this furnace accounts for 60 per cent of crude steel output worldwide. And wherever BOF steelmaking is not on the rise, electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking is. The constant in both methods is the furnace: indispensable to all steel making and central to every initiative toward more reliable and cost-efficient production and heat treatment.

Operators in either of the two major technologies know that 100 per cent reliability of the furnace or caster is key to the pour. The companies featured in this section of Tube and Pipe Technology know it, too. They are in the business of leveraging that awareness to ensure improved yields, enhanced quality, and greater productivity all the time.

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