Minerals Technologies Installs First Fully Automated Scantrol® Laser Refractory Measuring System for Basic Oxygen Furnaces at EVRAZ NTMK in Russia
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
NEW YORK, April 5-Minerals Technologies Inc., (NYSE: MTX) announced today that
it recently engineered and installed its first Scantrol® laser refractory
measuring system for basic oxygen steel-making furnaces (BOFs) at the Nizhniy
Tagil Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia. NTMK is one
of the largest fully integrated steel production facilities in Russia, producing
railway goods (wheels and rails) construction products, pipe blanks and semi-
finished products. It is a unit of the EVRAZ Group S.A., the fifteenth largest
producer of steel in the world.
Minteq International Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies
Inc., integrated its SCANTROL® system with the company's LACAM® laser measuring
equipment to provide seamless gunning of refractory material for furnace
maintenance in a fully automated approach.
"We are very pleased to work with the EVRAZ NTMK steel mill to provide the
first automated maintenance system for basic oxygen steel converters," said
Joseph C. Muscari, chairman and chief executive officer of Minerals
Technologies.
Han Schut, vice president of Minteq International, explained that the company
has done similar installations for Electric Arc Furnaces (EAFs), but that "this
is the first time the refractory shooter is directly controlled by the laser
readings of the LACAM® unit for BOFs, thereby saving the steel maker both
valuable time and refractory material costs in the steel-making process."
Minerals Technologies Inc. is a global resource- and technology-based growth
company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty
mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and
services. The company recorded sales of $1.04 billion in 2011.
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http://www.mineralstech.com/
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