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⚡ 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 🤔 Problem - A customer in South America began to prepare to restart a blast furnace. But they discovered that the copper staves in the bosh area had begun to suffer from wear. As the budget and schedule for the restart had already been agreed, the customer could not afford to replace the full row of copper staves. 💡 Solution - Primetals Technologies supplied wear resistant inserts for the copper staves already installed in the blast furnace. By adapting the design used on new staves, a combination of parts were developed to allow the inserts to be installed and held in place securely. The blast furnace is now back in operation and the customer is providing regular updates on the insert condition. To date this feedback shows no deterioration of the inserts. 🏆 Result - The customer has been operating their blast furnace since mid 2020 now without any risk of stave failure due to wear. The inserts increase the lifetime of the stave and therefore prolong the blast furnace campaign life. #CopperStaves #BlastFurnace #Ironmaking #wearresistant #innovation

Paul Balmer

Director Special Projects Blast Furnace Primetals Technologies Limited

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Another example of understanding a customer’s issue and adapting a solution to meet their needs. Well done to the two teams 👍

Santanu Das

Head of Maintenance at Tata Group

1mo

What about cooling of the damaged copper stave ! How these are cooled?

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Great service!

Ian McDonald

Industrial designer/engineer at primetals technologies

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Fantastic!!!

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