ArcelorMittal has inaugurated a new ladle furnace (LF) in the Hamburg steelworks. LF is used for refinement of the liquid steel and the new LF will allow to upgrade the steel properties.
Tyre insertion wires, for example, are ultimately no thicker than a hair and processing problems occur if there are even the slightest impurities in the steel. The additional LF extends the treatment time so that it becomes possible to produce even these sensitive qualities with the best possible result.
ArcelorMittal Hamburg was established in 1969 as Hamburger Stahlwerke GmbH. The plant has a special feature: its own direct reduction plant, the only one in Western Europe, which generates up to 600,000 metric tonnes of sponge iron per year.