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Severstal orders world-class slab reheating furnaces from Fives Group

around €20 million per year,” said Vadim Germanov, chief executive officer, Severstal Russian Steel Division.

Fives subsidiary that developed the furnace. The two Stein Digit@l Furnaces will be able to reheat a wide range of products within a charging temperature mix from half cold 20°C to half hot 500°C, according to the hot rolling mill requirements at Severstal. “New reheating furnaces will ensure

INTERNATIONAL industrial engineering group Fives has received an order from Russian steelmaker Severstal for two new high-capacity walking beam slab reheating furnaces. The new Stein Digit@l Furnaces ® , which each have a production capacity of up to 440 tons per hour, will replace two of the four existing furnaces serving the hot strip mill 2000 of the rolling plant No 2 as part of the major reconstruction at the Cherepovets Steel Mill in northwestern Russia. “One of unique features of the furnace is the use of AdvanTek ®  side firing burners with digital control. This creates so-called ‘micro zones’, each 2.8m long, which enable the furnace temperature to be controlled in a very precise manner, guaranteeing high heating efficiency,” said tech- nology expert Dieudonné Hounliasso, sales engineer at Fives Stein, the

Fives www.steel.fivesgroup.com

Severstal www.severstal.com

homogeneous heat- ing of slabs which is imperative to pro- duce high value- added products. In addition we will be able to reduce gas consumption and increase the capacity of the hot strip mill 2000 by 140,000 tons per year, which will bring a financial benefit of

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