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C O M P A N Y NEWS

NEW ENERGIRON ZR DIRECT

REDUCTION PLANT IN EUROPE

French GravitHy contracts Danieli for green HBI production project

orking to accelerate the ENERGIRON Zero reformer DR plant to industrial port area of Fos-sur-Mer,
transformation of the produce 2 Mtpy of HBI by using mainly France. There, GravitHy's new DRI plant
Wsteel industry value chain, hydrogen and electric power. will produce Hot Briquetted Iron –HBI,
reinforce industrial resilience and with a metallization up to 96%, and a
the energy transition by providing ENERGIRON is the DRI technology carbon content of 1% –which is needed
steelmakers with low-carbon iron for the jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli. during the steel melting process.
production of greener steel, GravitHy
has contracted Danieli to supply an The plant will be installed in the GravitHy project foresees onsite
production of low-carbon hydrogen, for
use as fuel by the ENERGIRON process.

In addition to the use of hydrogen as
reducing gas, the direct reduction plant
will feature electric process gas heating,
making the green DR processing
performed by ENERGIRON hydrogen
plants more efficient, resilient and
even greener. Electric gas heating is
the latest technology step towards full
decarbonization, and it is applicable also
to existing plants.

The plant is expected to start operation
by end 2030.

FAC ACHIEVED FOR SANMING MINGUANG’S

HIGH-EFFICIENCY BILLET-GRINDING MACHINE

Latest-generation HiGrind® solution for automated grinding of special steel billets and blooms

ujian Sanming Steel & Guangming applications. The supplied unit is a lat- automation systems. The grinding line
Co., Ltd. (Sanming MinGuang) has est-generation Danieli Centro Maskin processes square billets and rectangular
Fgranted the final acceptance for a grinding machine integrating the Hi- blooms across a wide dimensional range.
new high-efficiency billet-grinding ma- Grind® system, designed for the process- Main performance figures include a con-
chine supplied by Danieli and installed ing of both billets and blooms with full- stant grinding-wheel linear speed of 80
at its works in Sanming, Fujian province, skin and corner grinding capabilities. The m/s, grinding trolley speed up to 1.2 m/s
China. machine is dedicated to the conditioning under load, and positioning accuracy of
of special steel products, ensuring con- ±1 mm. Full-skin grinding depth is au-
The project supports the company’s sistent surface quality for downstream tomatically controlled within 0,5 –3 mm.
strategy to improve product quality and rolling processes. The scope includes Typical processing time for 160×160-
production efficiency for special steel mechanical equipment, electrical and mm billets up to 12 m length.

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