Metso will supply extensive electrification and automation to Outokumpu’s new ferrochrome plant in Tornio, Finland. Outokumpu is one of the world’s leading producers of stainless steel with about 7500 employees in over 30 countries. The equipment will be installed in several phases during 2011 and 2012. The test runs in the new plants will start in late 2012.
Outokumpu will invest over €440 million to double its present annual ferrochrome production capacity to about 530 000 tons once the extension is finalised in 2013. Metso’s delivery targets the new melting plant, the new sintering plant and the water plant as well as the raw material dosage and the coke stations.
“Metso’s automation system provides our plant with an integrated operation system that makes changing tasks and taking over from a colleague easy through a common operator interface. Additionally, we will get uniform process reporting and management. From the maintenance point of view, having one automation system is a benefit, too,” says Antti Hemminki, who is in charge of electrification in Outokumpu’s F3 project.
Outokumpu’s ferrochrome plant is part of the Tornio steel plant, the world’s most integrated stainless steel production unit with all parts of the production chain located close to each other. In the ferrochrome facility some production plants already use Metso’s automation systems, as does the Tornion Voima power plant located in the vicinity.
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