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Company Profile
Primetals Technologies, Limited, headquartered in London, U.K. is a worldwide leading engineering, plant-building and lifecycle partner for the metals industry. The company offers a complete technology, product and service portfolio that includes the integrated electrics, automation and environmental solutions. This covers every step of the iron and steel production chain that extends from the raw materials to the finished product – in addition to the latest rolling solutions for the nonferrous metals sector.
Primetals Technologies is a joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Siemens. Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery (MHMM) - an MHI consolidated group company with equity participation by Hitachi, Ltd. and IHI Corporation - holds a 51% stake and Siemens a 49% stake in the company. The company employs around 9,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.primetals.com.
Product Profile
- Integrated iron and steel works, minimills
- Coking plants, ore beneficiation plants and agglomeration plants (sintering and pelletizing)
- Blast furnaces, smelting reduction plants (Corex and Finex), direct-reduction plants
- Steelmaking plants: LD (BOF) converters, electric steelmaking plants, stainless steelmaking plants and secondary metallurgical facilities
- Continuous casting plants: slab casters, bloom casters (horizontal and vertical), beam-blank casters, combi-casters and billet casters
- Directly linked casting and rolling plants: Arvedi ESP plants (flat products), WinLink plants (long products), endless rolling mills (hot strip) and strip-casting plants
- Rolling and processing mills: long rolling mills (bar, wire rod, section, rail and tube), nonferrous rolling mills, plate mills, hot-strip mills, pickling lines, cold-rolling mills, galvanizing lines, tinning lines and organic coating lines.
- All integrated electrical, automation and environmental systems; metallurgical, consulting and financial services; modernization packages
Plant and equipment for processing of raw materials
- Processing of ore and/or scrap
- Coking plant facilities
Plant and equipment for iron making/reduction processes
- Blast furnace processing
- Reduction processes (electric, direct, melting)
Steel production plant and equipment
- Steel production BOF route
- Steel production EAF route
- Secondary Metallurgy
- Continuous casting (near-net-shape/strip/horizontal)
Plant and equipment for shaping of steel
- Complete plants (e.g. rolling mills)
- Reheating furnaces
- Hot/cold rolling of steel
Plant and equipment for shaping of NF-Metals
- Complete plants (e.g. rolling mills)
- Hot/cold rolling of NF-metals
Strip processing lines
- Continuous annealing
- Pickling
- Galvanizing
- Colour coating
- Tinning lines
Finishing line equipment for
- Flat products
- Long products
- Tubes/pipes
Electrical drives and (integrated) automation system
- Electrical drives and (integrated) automation system
Miscellaneous equipment
- Storage and conveying
- Metal-cutting machinery
- Water hydraulics
- Auxiliary (e.g. roller bearings, wear parts)
