Stein Heurtey wins new order for CORUS Ijmuiden

In September 2006, Stein Heurtey was awarded an order from Corus to supply a Digiflex® vertical annealing furnace and the after-pot cooling section of the new automotive hot-dip galvanizing line DVL3 for the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker´s IJmuiden works in the Netherlands. Stein Heurtey will carry out this project in cooperation with Siemens VAI as the leader of the consortium and Siemens Belgium as the electrical partner.

The galvanizing line will have a capacity of 500,000 tons/y and will be used to increase IJmuiden´s automotive sales from just under 1m t/y to roughly 1.4m t/y. The majority of the additional products will be advanced high strength steel (AHSS) grades targeted at Corus´ traditional markets in Europe, as well as new EU member countries.

The Digiflex® furnace features the latest technologies dedicated to the production of high quality full finished automotive products, and includes a direct fired heating furnace (NOF process), a pulse fired radiant tube furnace, an ultra-rapid cooling section and an induction booster.

The new plant is scheduled to start production in mid-2008.