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Industry 4.0 – Digitalization of Electric Arc Furnaces [2022]
Digitalization of the steel industry has been ongoing for decades now. In recent years, it has gained great momentum from the current industry 4.0 trend and newly emergent technologies. However,...
Reducing electrode wear in EAF steelmaking [2022]
Electrode consumption forms a large part of the operational costs of EAF steelmaking. In addition, electrode prices have been very volatile during recent years. Therefore, it is important to...
The rapid rise in the cost of EU CO2 allowances – Implications for EAF steelmaking
The inflation and the price of electricity have risen sharply during 2021. In addition to these, the price of CO2 allowances in the EU has been also in a steep upswing. There has been already a 154%...
Finland is taking significant steps towards fossil-free steel
Finland is taking significant steps towards fossil-free steel. Business Finland is funding three large research projects which aim to reduce the CO2 emissions from the production of metals and to...
How to optimize the EAF process to reduce costs and indirect CO2e emissions
It is not exactly a secret that melting steel with an electric arc requires massive amounts of energy. Typical production volumes start from a hundred thousand tons per year and reach over one...
Reducing CO2e emissions with ArcSpec
The steel industry is under heavy pressure to reduce its CO2e emissions. Even the smallest improvements in the processes make the difference when the production amounts are so enormous. One ArcSpec...
Measuring EAF Scrap Charge volumes – Luxmet presents at AMET -Webinar 27.9.
Luxmet is part of the AMET project which goal is to develop and provide platform economy solutions for the steel industry. As part of the project, we have developed our ArcSpec system further to...
Luxmet partners in the North American Market
Luxmet is proud to announce a new business partnership with US-based Berry Metal. Berry Metal will offer Luxmet’s patented ArcSpec technology together with their overall offering of EAF solutions to...
Luxmet is taking part in EEC2021
Save the date: 14.9.2021 Our head of research Dr. Matti Aula will present in EEC2021 31.8. at 9:10 am with two topics. The first presentation is at 9:40 am: Development of EAF injector and burner...
Luxmet is taking part in ESTAD 2021 – Decreasing EAF electrode wear in stainless steelmaking by controlling the arc exposure
Save the date: 31.8. at 9:10 am Our head of research Dr. Matti Aula will present in ESTAD2021 31.8. at 9:10 am with the topic “Decreasing EAF electrode wear in stainless steelmaking by controlling...