Italy-based Forni Industriali Bendotti, which specializes in the construction of furnaces for the metallurgical industry, has announced that it will supply a new reheating furnace for US-based Nucor Steel Kankakee, subsidiary of US steelmaker Nucor Corporation.
Forni Industriali Bendotti stated that the new furnace will have a capacity of 91 metric tons per hour. It will supply the merchant bar mill that will be erected by Germany-based plantmaker SMS at the Nucor Kankakee plant in the town of Bourbonnais, 100 km south of Chicago. The start-up of the plant is scheduled for late 2019.