UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it will supply two LD converters (BOFs) to Luxembourg-basedArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk plant inFrance.
Primetals will replace one of the existing LD converters, which has reached the end of its lifetime. The other new LD converter will be held in stock in Dunkirk for later installation. The start-up forArcelorMittal’s first new LD converter is scheduled for December 2023.
In 2021, Primetals Technologies supplied a LD converter toArcelorMittal’s Gent plant, in Belgium.