Austria-based international plant and equipment supplier Andritz has announced that it will supply a new walking beam furnace with an output of 150 mt/h for Swiss-based special steel producer and distributor Schmolz+Bickenbach’s subsidiary Swiss Steel for heating the continuous-cast billets at the company’s Emmenbrücke wire plant. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2019.
Andritz stated that the heating technology of the new furnace will reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions to the maximum possible extent by keeping heat consumption at a minimum rate. In addition, a complete cooling plant with an emergency cooling plant and a heat recovery system that make best use of the residual heat from the waste gas will be supplied to cool the transport system in the furnace. An additional filtering plant installed in the waste gas system reduces dust emissions to a minimum.