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Commissioning of two 100t ingot casting cars at OVAKO, Sweden

Two 100t casting cars are being commissioned at Ovako One of the largest casting cars that INTECO has ever designed is due to be commissioned shortly. The first of the two 100t cars, which are being installed at the Swedish steel producer Ovako, has already been delivered and on-site erection is progressing despite all the current obstacles.

INTECO receives order for EAF Revamping from Shagang Special Steel

As the recovery trend from the COVID 10 pandemic in China is ramping up gradually, INTECO customer Shagang Special Steel decided to go ahead by awarding INTECO with the order for the revamping of two of their EAFs.

INTECO successfully completes modernization of continuous casting plant at OEMK

The re-equipment of the continuous-casting machine no. 3 at OEMK in Stary Oskol, Russia, has been completed successfully. OEMK is a subsidiary of Metalloinvest and operates a large melt shop in south-west Russia. The concept of the relatively large plant with a capacity of 3.5 million tonnes a year is based on the processing of its own iron ore.

Order for new spray cooling systems, Confidential Customer Europe

In the last years the prices for graphite electrodes reached an all-time high and even though the supply situation has relaxed nowadays the electrode consumption is a crucial factor in the production costs of electric steel making. For new EAFs it is nowadays state of the art to use spray cooling systems to considerably reduce the electrode consumption. However more and more clients running older furnaces are asking to retrofit such a system to gain its benefits.

First heat with 10t Titan VAR at Shaanxi Tian Cheng Aerospace

On 21 March, the first ingot was successfully remelted in the new 10t titanium vacuum arc furnace at the Chinese client Shaanxi Tian Cheng Aerospace’s plant.