Dongbei Special Steel Group, located in Liaoning province, China, has awarded the Gases Division of The Linde Group a contract for the installation of a new annealing furnace for stainless steel wire. The installation will be the world’s first application of oxyfuel technology in stainless steel wire treatment and demonstrates the wide range of applications that can be improved with this technology. The new annealing furnace for stainless steel wire will combine two of Linde’s technologies, DST and Rebox oxyfuel solutions, and the use of oxyfuel will further improve important parameters such as fuel consumption, throughput capacity, and emission levels. The commissioning of the Rebox® DST furnace in this application is scheduled for September 2008.
