South Korean steel producer POSCO has chosen Primetals Technologies to supply a new tilting drive for LD converter (BOF) No. 3-2 at its plant in Pohang. Primetals Technologies was responsible for engineering, manufacturing, supply of equipment, advisory services, and training of on-site personnel.
The Primetals Technologies team chose to manufacture, test, and inspect the tilting drive at a workshop in Milan, Italy, before transporting it to the Genoa harbour and shipping it as one 110-ton piece to South Korea. As a result, on-site pre-assembly times were significantly reduced.
The new tilting drive features Primetals Technologies’ optimized gear-tooth profile, hardened gears, and increased housing stiffness, all of which allow for higher torques. Additionally, POSCO will benefit from a reduced need for maintenance and increased equipment lifetime compared to the previous implementation. Primetals Technologies also installed pneumatic emergency drives to ensure full availability of the tilting drive, even in case of power outages and other unforeseen events.
