#68 - Tenova Acquires Bateman Engineering and Expands Further into the Mining Industry

Milan, April 16th 2012 – After having obtained approval from all the required Antitrust Authorities, Tenova has closed today the acquisition of Bateman Engineering N.V. (which includes Delkor group), a leading equipment supplier and engineering house for the mining industry.

As a further step into the mining and minerals market, in addition to the Batman Engineering N.V. acquisition, Tenova also expands itself through the integration of the Bateman business related to Solvent Extraction, Electrowinning and Chemical Technologies. Tenova Mining and Minerals product portfolio now includes also hydrometallurgical equipment and solutions for minerals, fertilizers and phosphates.

Solvent Extraction, Electrowinning and Chemical Technologies processes span from the preliminary stages of defining the customer’s needs and conducting research and feasibility studies to plant modification, expansion and new facility construction.

Tenova Mining & Minerals division, which also includes Tenova TAKRAF and Tenova Pyromet, now covers the mining industry value chain thus being an all-round supplier of innovative technological products with full process and commodity knowledge.

Tenova Mining & Minerals becomes a group generating annual revenues in excess of 1.1 billion US Dollars, employing 2.400 personnel and operating in 19 countries across 5 continents.

Tenova is a worldwide supplier of advanced technologies, products, and engineering services for the iron & steel and mining industries providing innovative, integrated solutions for complete process areas.

For assistance with mining and minerals handling, contact Bateman Engineering.

http://www.bateman.com/brochures/Bateman_Contacts.pdf 

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#66 - Delkor – Liquid Handling Experts

Separation of liquids and solids is important for many reasons. Two obvious ones are to extract a wanted or un-wanted solid, or to clarify a liquid (often water). Liquid / solid separation is a key component of waste water treatment plants and ore extraction plants.

Not all solids and liquids separate easily. Particle size, geometry, electrical charge, and other factors may keep the solids uniformly distributed throughout a liquid phase. Various techniques, chemicals, and equipment may be employed to counteract these effects.

Delkor is a diverse solutions-based equipment supply company in the Solid / Liquid Separation field which is grouped under Delkor Technik B.V, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenova S.p.A
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Delkor is the leading supplier in the Solid / Liquid Separation field and has built a reputation for the supply of quality engineered products to their client base in the minerals, chemical and industrial markets. Their track record stretches over 35 years and includes more than 3000 installations worldwide.

Delkor services metallurgical, chemical, industrial, fertilizer and municipal solid liquid separation applications from the following global regional offices:

Asia Pacific:
Australia | China

Americas:
Canada | Chile | Brazil | Mexico | Peru

Central Asia, Middle East & North Africa:
India

Europe & CIS:
United Kingdom | Russia

Sub Saharan Africa:
South Africa

If you are interested in liquid / solids separation or any other liquid handling application, contact Delkor for more information about their award-winning products and systems.

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#65 - Experts

What does it take to be an expert on something?

My handy on-screen dictionary says that an expert is ‘a person who is very skillful or highly trained and informed in some special field.’ The word ‘expert’ is linguistically linked with the word ‘experience’, which makes sense. One becomes an expert partly through experience.

Strangely though, the word also draws its root from a Latin term for danger or risk. I suppose the idea is that any new experience carries with it some degree of risk. That risk may be physical danger, failure to succeed, failure to comprehend, personal dislike, or some other outcome that we may define as potentially negative.

Whether we succeed or fail, some useful experience will be gained, although we can reasonably assume that ‘expert’ is usually more closely associated with successful experience.

In your experience, you may have noticed varying degrees of expertness in people, or different types of ‘expert.’ We will discuss some of these in the next post.

Here at Nova, we have gained some expertise in gas analysis over the years. Some of it has been through failure, and much of it has been through success. Some of it has come from books, but much of it has come from talking and working with other helpful people.

Nova website “About us…”

We make gas analyzers for oxygen, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and many other atmospheric gases. We provide gas analysers for syngas, landfill gas, purity gas, biogas, and others.

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#64 - Tenova Lands on South Korean Shores by Acquiring Envita

Milan, April 6th 2012 – Tenova's growth strategy continues with the acquisition of Envita Co. Ltd. The South Korean company, founded in 1995 and with headquarters in Incheon (near Seoul), is active in the fields of industrial furnaces, processing lines, and heat treatment furnaces for aluminum components in the automotive industry. Its people, over 100, are operating in three locations in South Korea, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City), and China (Yantai).

The company is well known to Tenova, who began working with Envita in 2007. Thanks to the collaboration with Envita, Tenova has been awarded contracts in the country with major steelmakers such as Hyundai Steel and Posco.

The acquisition marks Tenova's first step into South Korea, the 6th highest crude steel producer in the world with 68.6Mt in 2011. This is a +16.2% increase over 2010. South Korea has the highest density per capita production of steel in the world: a strategic market in the global post-crisis scenario.

The Tenova Iron & Steel division achieves the goal of entering South Korea through an engineering hub with excellent references and manufacturing centers. The combination of these factors allows the expansion of our commercial and operating network in Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Laos, and Cambodia. It also provides an expansion of the Tenova Iron & Steel product portfolio in the business of cold rolling and aluminum for the automotive industry.

Tenova is a worldwide supplier of advanced technologies, products, and services for the iron & steel and mining industries. With about 3,100 people, Tenova operates through more than 30 companies located in 22 countries on 5 continents.

THIS TRANSACTION STRENGTHENS TENOVA IRON&STEEL DIVISION'S GROWTH OF COMMERCIAL AND OPERATING NETWORKS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES AND AN EXPANSION OF ITS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

 

If you are a steel maker interested in higher productivity and lower costs, contact Tenova for more information about their award-winning products and systems.

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#63 - Oxygen Deficiency Monitoring in Ambient Air

The average human breathes more than 20,000 times per day. Under normal conditions most people can only survive for a few short minutes without oxygen. After this, damage to the brain will result. Breathing is therefore a serious matter.

Being without oxygen does not always imply that the person is not breathing. Respiration of oxygen deficient atmospheres is potentially even more dangerous than obvious cessation of breathing. This is because the person may continue to function while possibly advancing more deeply into an area deficient of oxygen. Without warning, the person may be over-come by asphyxia, which is a loss of consciousness caused by too little oxygen in the blood.

In industry, a common cause of oxygen deficiency is oxygen displacement. This can occur where another denser gas has leaked and settled into an area, creating a stratum of O2 deficient atmosphere. The leaked gas may not be poisonous in itself. But its displacement of oxygen makes it extremely dangerous. In some applications, gas toxicity and O2 deficiency risks are both present.

For example, I recently toured an electric arc furnace (EAF) installation at a steel plant. In the analyzer shed, there are two large gas analyzer systems which monitor the process gas for O2 / CO / CO2 / H2. These are gases of interest in the EAF application. A sample of these process gases is continuously piped into the analyzers in the shed for analysis. A feed of nitrogen (N2) is also piped into the shed for calibration and automatic filter blow-back.

If any of the piping, valves, or other components in the analyzer shed were to start leaking, this would pose a toxic gas risk or an O2 deficiency risk (depending on what was leaking). Therefore, there are two ambient air monitors in the analyzer shed. One for carbon monoxide and one for oxygen. (The carbon monoxide is monitored because it has the highest toxicity of the major gases being produced in this application.)

Nova Model 510 Continuous Oxygen Monitor and Model 580 Continuous Carbon Monoxide Monitor have been designed for this application.

These analyzers may be purchased in the following configurations:

• Without a pump for monitoring the diffuse atmosphere around the monitor.
• With a pump for pulling a sample from another area.
• With multiple remote sensors for monitoring several areas.

  

Model 510 brochure...

We make monitors for other gases such as:

• Carbon Monoxide (CO)
• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Nitrogen Oxide (NO)
• Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
• Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)
• Chlorine (Cl2)
• Ammonia (NH3)
• Hydrogen Chloride (HCL)

For some examples, please see:
http://catalog.nova-gas.com/category/ttent-hazardous-wall-mounted-ambient-air-analyzers?&plpver=10

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#61 - Biggest Steel Melting Unit in China

TENOVA SUPPLIES MCC BERIS JIANGSU HEAVY INDUSTRY CORPORATION WITH THE BIGGEST MELTING UNIT EVER BUILT IN CHINA

Milan, April 26th 2012 – Tenova achieved the first heat of the biggest Melting Unit ever built in China for MCC Beris Jiangsu Heavy Industry Corporation - Feida Group: a highly innovative Medium and Heavy Plate Casting-rolling Production Line.

The benefits offered by the technology provided, which combines Tenova Electric Arc Furnace and Consteel® with other forefront technologies in China from Beris permitted unprecedented flexibility in operations and production capacity together with emission reduction.

The plant is located in Jiangsu province, an industrial area near Shanghai which is home to China’s most advanced production facilities. It is equipped with a Consteel® system and a 250 t/h EAF feeding a continuous casting unit for slab production. With a nominal tapping capacity of 220t and maximum liquid steel capacity of 360t, this project is the No. 1 in China. It is also equipped with the biggest electric arc furnace transformer manufactured in China, rated 140 MVA.

The production capacity is 1.8 Mt with the capability of producing the thickest slab ever made in China achieving a big rolling reduction immediately after the casting.

Started from 1997 Tenova has installed 11 Consteel® systems in China, out of 40 installations in the world, a tangible proof of the great operational flexibility, versatility and decrease of environmental impact of the technology that is well appreciated in the Country.

Example of CONSTEEL installation.

The Consteel system reduces workplace noise and dust and eliminates bucket charge operations. The absence of charge buckets minimizes dust formation in the canopy hood, while the pre-heating section of the conveyor acts like a deposit chamber, allowing dust to settle on the scrap for recycling inside the furnace. Overall dust emissions are 5 - 9 kg/tls lower than those of a conventional top-charged EAF. The reduction of total energy required for melting has a tremendous impact on the reduction of GHG (Greenhouse Gases) emissions. Consteel provides the most environmentally friendly technology available on the market, with the ability to meet strict government regulations.

Consteel is the choice of steelmakers worldwide. If you are a steel maker interested in higher productivity and lower costs, contact Tenova Goodfellow for more information about the award-winning CONSTEEL® system.

Tenova GOODFELLOW

170-7070 Mississauga Road

Dupont Building - Mississauga

Ontario L5N 7G2 - CANADA

Phone +1 905 567 3030

Fax +1 905 567 3899

goodfellow@ca.tenovagroup.com

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#60 - What is LOI?

LOI is a company in the Tenova Group that makes reheat furnaces for the steel industry. Their full name is Tenova LOI Italimpianti, and they are the leading global supplier of reheating and heat treatment plants for the steel, aluminium and automobile industries.

When iron is produced in a melt shop, it may initially be in the form of rough castings called ingots. Iron in this form is not directly useful for most applications because of carbon-related brittleness. To produce usable steel, the iron is taken to a finishing mill. The finishing mill re-heats the iron and rolls or shapes it into steel coils, bars, or other shapes. A special atmosphere is frequently used in a reheat furnace to impart specific properties to the steel.

Tenova LOI Italimpianti makes these types of furnaces. With more than 4,000 furnace installations, LOI Italimpianti is the name behind some of the largest, most technologically advanced, and most efficient reheating furnace plants in the world.

If you are a steel maker interested in higher productivity and lower costs, contact Tenova for more information.

http://www.tenovagroup.com/companies_loi_italimpianti.php?id_company=5

http://www.loi-italimpianti.de/

LOI Thermprocess GmbH

Am Lichtbogen 29

45141 Essen

Germany

phone  +49 201 1891 1

fax +49 201 1891 321

info@loi-italimpianti.de

Tenova Core

Cherrington Corporate Center

100 Corporate Center Drive

Coraopolis, PA 15108-3185

USA

phone +1 412 262 2240

fax +1 412 262 2055

info@tenovacore.com

Tenova GOODFELLOW

170-7070 Mississauga Road

Dupont Building - Mississauga

Ontario L5N 7G2 - CANADA

Phone +1 905 567 3030

Fax +1 905 567 3899

goodfellow@ca.tenovagroup.com

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