EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DAYS 2017 - ESTAD 2017

The sharp decline in iron and steel prices has led producers to focus more and more on existing plants and costs of production in recent years. Focus has been on optimizing plant performance to increase productivity in existing plants and decrease energy and maintenance costs (Total variable cost). In addition changing of input materials to the worse and stricter environmental legislation required adaption of plant equipments and plant operation. Outotec supports its customers with a unique range of products and services to achieve these challenging targets. For pelletizing plants, we at Outotec have focused on new developments to increase plant productivity and efficiency in three dimensions. Firstly by reducing downtimes of the plant through our maintenance services and proprietary spare parts. Secondly by improving productivity of the plant and quality of the products by special technical services and upgrade products. Thirdly by improving the controllability by digital services and special measurements. For sintering plants focus is in addition to decreased downtimes through maintenance services on the improvement of environmental and energetic performance as well as on the increase of capacity through upgrades and modernisations in the area of mixing, induration, grate and cooling. Outotec’s products are supported by strong technical support for the customer by our experts on site and through test work in our own research centers.