The Italian steelmaker Arvedi will install a 250-tonne Techint EAF-Consteel to supply the liquid steel for its new "endless steel production" (ESP) line at Cremona.

The new EAF will be integrated with a Consteel system, the continuous preheating system patented by Techint, and will reach the world-wide highest capacity for a single furnace: 300 t/h with 100% scrap feeding. The melting unit will be equipped with an off-gas process control system, the oxygen and carbon/lime lances for chemical injection and  the electrode digital regulation system.

The melting area will be completed by the installation of two 250 t ladle furnaces that will operate downstream of the furnace.

Both companies are highly proud of this project which will guarantee better production, lower costs, and the highest level of quality and reliability in an environmentally friendly plant.