ArcelorMittal Monlevade places order for the construction of a new blast furnace - Paul Wurth Group

A new, modern blast furnace, which will become the "B" furnace, will form the hot metal base of ArcelorMittal’s capacity expansion at their Monlevade plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sized at 8.0 m hearth diameter, with 22 hot blast tuyeres, it will deliver 1.12 million t of hot metal per year to the steelmaking facilities. ArcelorMittal awarded to the Paul Wurth Group a design and supply contract for the new "B" furnace and all auxiliary plants which provides for such modern technologies and state-of-the-art equipment as: central feed bell less top charging system, TMT stockline detectors and probes, a cooling system with copper and cast iron staves. The cold blast will be generated by an electrically driven blower, the hot blast by a 3-stoves group with ceramic burners and with all stoves and blast valves of Paul Wurth design.

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