Vatvedt

Our approach

Producers of submerged arc furnace products continuously need to improve their competitive strength. They meet increasing challenges in the following areas:

• Improve productivity

• Make use of best available technology

• Energy costs

• Raw material costs

• Labour costs

• Finished product quality requirements

• Demands on working environment

• Demands on external environment

The needs of producers vary depending on their location, existing installations and local conditions. Vatvedt is able to cover a variety of needs, such as:

• Greenfield projects for production of ferro alloys and related products

• Installation of new furnaces in an existing plant

• Overhaul, upgrading and capacity increase of existing furnaces

• Capacity expansion studies

• Evaluation of furnace operation and performance improvement

• Process automation and process control

We cover the following processes:

• Ferromanganese and silicomanganese

• Ferrosilicon and ferrosilicon based alloys

• Silicon metal

• Ferrochrome

• Ferronickel

• Calcium carbide

Furnace types:

• Closed, semiclosed and open furnaces

• Stationary and rotating furnaces