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Meet Airwash^TM, our brand-new system for cleaning the exhaust air from aluminum cold rolling mills. It helps you protect the atmosphere and reduce operating costs by recovering rolling oil for recycling.

The melting process generates between 10 and 20 kilograms of dust per ton of steel. This goes into the exhaust air where it represents a big problem. You need to clean the exhaust air to achieve sustainable steel production and comply with clean air regulations. BOF (basic oxygen furnace) dedusting systems from SMS group ensure you meet these standards and offer considerable economic advantages.

More than half of demand on the copper market is for cast and rolled copper wire rod. That's because this material is crucial to the electrical and electronics industry. We have banked decades of experience and obtained worldwide references. All of these have made us a global leader with our high-capacity CONTIROD^®* plants.

*CONTIROD^® is a registered trademark of Aurubis Belgium

CMT^TM (Continuous Mill Technology) takes our basic minimill design a step further. It ensures short routes by linking the rolling mill directly to the steelworks. Unlike previous plants, CMT^TM no longer requires a heating furnace. Instead, the casting heat goes directly into rolling.

CSP^® stands for Compact Strip Production. It’s our unique method for casting steel into thin slabs, followed by temperature homogenization in a tunnel furnace, then direct rolling in the mill. That eliminates prerolling. Now, with CSP^® eco, we offer you a new package designed to slash energy consumption even further.

One of the key stages in cold strip processing is high-speed cooling after recrystallization annealing. This is where Drever International, part of SMS group, offers you an ideal solution. The Drever^® UFC (ultra-fast cooling) system achieves super-high, consistent cooling rates in radiant tube furnaces.

The MT closed-die forging press is one of the latest generation of eccentric presses from SMS group. The MEERtorque^® servodrive concept, newly developed from scratch, is the technical highlight of the press. 

Another highlight besides our Single chamber furnaces is the HERTWICH Ecomelt type furnace. Despite the various strategic design criteria, detailed multi chamber furnace design is flexible to meet individual specifications and capacities. The HERTWICH multichamber furnaces Ecomelt PR, Ecomelt PS and Ecomelt PC are designed to the following principles.

There are many advantages of sintering plants in modern, integrated steelworks. They not only produce sinter for the blast furnace process, but also enable producers to recover valuable materials. Included here are dust and other particulates generated during the sintering process.

Almost all metallurgical melting units consume vast volumes of energy. Yet too often, most of this energy is wasted. Here is just one example: up to 40% of the energy expended exits the furnace together with the hot offgas. It’s essential to cut these losses. This is where we help you with custom-designed solutions for more efficient processes.

Looking to the future, SMS group has set itself the targets of drastically reducing the fuel consumption and emissions of furnace plants. To achieve these ambitious goals, we are working hard on developing eco-friendly, high-quality alternatives to conventional furnace technology.

PSM^® stands for ”Precision Sizing Mill“. It also stands for wire rod and bar production that meets today‘s demands for top flexibility and process transparency. Always keen to achieve even better sustainability, SMS further improved the process for you. How? By integrating our MEERgauge^® cross-section measurement system.