October 11, 2008

Georgsmarienhütte commissions laded furnace

SMS Demag AG announced that it has successfully taken into operation the 140 tonne ladle furnace supplied to Germany’s Georgsmarienhütte GmbH.

The order awarded to SMS Demag consisted of manufacturing, erection and commissioning of plant and equipment for the secondary metallurgical field. The supply scope included a 140 tonne ladle furnace with a transformer capacity of 25 MVA, the water supply and treatment system, a stirring gas control station and the ladle transfer car.

The existing ladle furnace at the Georgsmarienhütte works was modernized as part of this new plant building project. SMS Demag has supplied a common dust collecting facility for the two ladle furnaces, carbon injection systems, a T&S lance, a transfer station for the two ladle furnaces, and the electrical and automation systems.

Georgsmarienhütte GmbH produces steel bars, semi finished products and bright steel from quality steel and high grade structural steel and delivers predominantly to the automotive industry as well as its suppliers. Georgsmarienhütte’s aim of achieving increased production in addition to improving the metallurgical treatment possibilities was optimally realized by the acquisition of this new plant.