High-Tech Reheating
and Special Application Furnaces
A complete line of furnace equipment
implementing proven innovative technologies
TENOVA is a worldwide supplier of advanced technologies, products and engineering
services for the metals and mining & minerals industries.
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Tenova is a worldwide supplier of advanced
technologies, products and engineering services
for the metals and mining & minerals industries
providing innovative integrated solutions.
Combined process and automation know-how
enhance the value delivered to the customers.
Tenova is committed to develop its technology
in the areas of greatest significance for the future
of the industries it serves: product quality, energy
saving and environmental sustainability.
Tenova Italimpianti is the leading global supplier
of reheating equipment for steel and copper,
melting/holding furnaces for aluminum, and other
industrial furnaces for special applications. It employs
its outstanding innovation, experience and know-how
to offer complete, state-of-the-art, environment-friendly
furnace systems and related combustion systems
operating with any kind of fuel.
Global Presence
Tenova Italimpianti is a leading integrated supplier with operating
companies in Europe, China, South Korea, India and the USA and
production facilities in India and Vietnam. Present on all the world’s key
markets, Tenova Italimpianti provides technological support and closely
serves its customers.
Tenova Italimpianti is supported by the synergies and worldwide presence
of Tenova’s global network of operating companies with solid local roots,
who provide unique solutions through an integrated, multi-business
organization. This global approach enables Tenova companies to keep in
close contact with customers, to provide engineering capabilities aligned
with local standards and to guarantee real-time responsiveness.
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver
Mexico Mexico D.f., Monterrey
USA Denver, Pittsburgh, Yalesville
Brazil Chile Peru 2
Belo Horizonte
Santiago
Lima
Wien
Liege
France Germany Italy Poland Sofia
Lyon
Dortmund,
Essen, Lauchhammer,
Leipzig, Stuttgart
Genoa, Milan, Varese
Katowice, Swiebodzin
Sweden Lidköping
South Africa Johannesburg
China India Kazakhstan Beijing, Chongqing,
Shanghai, Tanggu, Tianjin
Bangalore, Chennai,
Kolkata, Mumbai
Russia South Korea Thailand Uzbekistan Astana
Moscow
Seoul
Bangkok
Taschkent
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
Australia Brisbane,
Perth, Sydney
Indonesia Jakarta
Heritage
As a leader in reheating furnaces, Tenova Italimpianti draws on the longstanding experience and know-how of:
Italimpianti, an Italian engineering company founded in Genoa in
1957. A leading integrated supplier of technology and turnkey industrial
plants, Italimpianti specialized in reheating furnaces and related thermal
equipment. Through its R&D work and technological innovation, it became
a benchmark player on the market.
Core, based in the USA, is a leading provider of industrial furnaces
and related equipment. The company has established itself as a source
for advanced technology and reliable deliveries. Offering fully integrated
operational capabilities, Core is the main supplier of large reheating
furnaces on the NAFTA market.
Hypertherm, based in Mumbai, specializes in the design and supply
of industrial furnaces. The company focuses mainly on the SAARC
market, where its impressive expertise is supported by numerous
installations in the Country and abroad.
Envita, based in Incheon, South Korea, specializes in the design and
supply of industrial furnaces and related equipment. The company has
developed proprietary technologies for aluminum equipment intended
primarily for the automotive sector, thus becoming the preferred supplier
of well-known brands in Korea and in the West.
With more than 4,000 furnace installations, Tenova Italimpianti is the
name behind some of the largest, most technologically advanced
and most efficient reheating furnace plants in the world.
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Business
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Tenova Italimpianti designs and installs a wide variety of ferrous and nonferrous reheating furnaces for long and flat products covering a full range
of requirements, from traditional applications to thin slab and direct rolling.
Its expertise also covers furnaces for petroleum coke, carbon products
and direct reduced iron, as well as metal reclamation and waste oxide
recycling, aluminum melting, holding and heat treatment furnaces the
thermal section of processing lines, pots and related accessories for GI/GL
lines, pollution abatement facilities (RTO and scrubbers) and air knives.
Tenova Italimpianti’s success is based on its acknowledged ability
to develop reheating furnaces providing outstanding efficiency and
reliability, excellent temperature uniformity, fully automatic operation,
and low product variability. Tenova Italimpianti excels at delivering highquality furnace product lines to meet the exacting installation
and schedule requirements of the customer.
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Products
Tenova Italimpianti reheating furnaces provide excellent processing quality
and productivity for slabs, billets, blooms, beam blanks and rounds.
Tenova LOI Italimpianti designs include:
• Walking Beam and Walking Hearth Furnaces
• Roller Hearth Furnaces for Thin Slab
• Pusher Type Furnaces
• Rotary Hearth Furnaces
• Specialty Furnaces for Calcining Processes and Carbon Products
• Furnaces for pipes and quenching systems
• Aluminum melting, holding and heat treatment furnaces
• Thermal section of processing lines
• Pots and related accessories for GI/GL lines and air knives
• Pollution abatement facilities (RTO and scrubbers)
• Burners
• Level 1 and Level 2 Automation
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Walking Beam
and Walking Hearth Furnaces
As a long-time player in reheating furnaces, Tenova Italimpianti has
installed some of the world’s largest walking beam reheating furnaces.
It has designed walking beam furnaces for reheating:
• billets
• blooms
• slabs
• thin slabs
• beam blanks
• pipes and any kind of material, including:
• copper
• carbon steel
• stainless steel
• oriented grain steel
• titanium
• special alloys
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Roller Hearth Furnaces
for Thin Slab
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Tenova Italimpianti roller hearth furnaces implementing latest-generation
direct rolling technology are suitable for slab lengths of 30-50 m and,
in special cases, for endless rolling of bar lengths up to 300 m. With
a constant focus on critical components such as rollers and burners,
Tenova Italimpianti designs outstanding roller hearth furnaces. Milestones
include the longest furnace, the furnace with the highest temperature
and the first operating furnace with three lines.
Pusher Type Furnaces
Most of the pusher type furnaces built in the 1970s and 1980s are still
in operation today.
Modern design techniques and solutions adopted for new furnaces can
give fresh life to old plants.
New offset skid systems, new hot rider designs, burners with low NOx
emissions are some of the advances applied to older furnaces to boost
production capacity, improve temperature uniformity, enhance surface
quality and save energy.
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Rotary Hearth Furnaces
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Tenova Italimpianti is the world’s leading supplier of rotary hearth furnaces
for a variety of process applications and product types.
Tenova Italimpianti has installed some of the largest-diameter and highestcapacity rotary hearth furnaces in the world. Its rotary hearth furnace
technology is adopted for specialized applications including bloom
reheating, iron processing and waste reclamation processes.
Specialty Furnaces
for Calcining Processes
and Carbon Products
Tenova Italimpianti has developed advanced technologies for petroleum
coke and coal rotary hearth calciners used to process lignite,
sub-bituminous coal, anthracite, brown coal, formed coke briquettes
and many other carbon-based products.
Its proprietary rotary hearth calciner provides better product quality
and higher product yield than traditional rotary kilns.
Tenova Italimpianti deploys its superior carbon-baking process know-how
to build furnaces whose superior heating and circulation systems produce
the base material for carbon electrodes of the highest quality.
With its state-of-the-art combustion technology, waste heat recovery,
incineration and process control as well as safety technology, Tenova
Italimpianti is the provider of choice for top-quality carbon-baking
equipment.
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Furnaces for Pipes
and Quenching Systems
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Tenova Italimpianti provides reliable processing equipment for pipes.
Its innovative quenching systems are designed to meet the strict
processing requirements of modern pipe production.
Aluminum Melting,
Holding and Heat
Treatment Furnaces
Tenova Italimpianti offers aluminum melting furnaces covering production
needs for all applications through Tenova Metals, the new brand name
of the Korean company Tenova Envita. Thanks to the quality, reliability,
and efficiency of its furnaces and an extremely efficient after-sales
department, Tenova Metals has established itself as the key supplier
of major producers in the automotive industry such as Hyundai Motors,
Kia Motors, GM and others.
Different furnace sizes are available, ranging from 0.5 to 5 t/h melting
capacity (rapid melting furnaces), with up to 40 t holding capacity.
To satisfy customer needs, Tenova Metals is expanding its product
portfolio: one new entry is a high-efficiency, high-recovery-rate aluminum
chip melting furnace implementing a mechanical recirculation system.
Additional products for the aluminum line include state-of-the-art rotary
and continuous T-6 aluminum treatment furnaces, fully automated
handling systems, low-pressure casting machines and aluminum dosing
furnaces with up to 2 t capacity.
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Thermal section
of processing lines
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Tenova Italimpianti supplies state-of-the-art furnaces for strip processing.
Its offer includes continuous furnaces for hot-dip galvanizing including
alu-zinc coating, continuous annealing furnaces, paint ovens for color
coating lines and thermal sections for vertical bright annealing, as well as
horizontal and vertical direct fired sections, indirect heating radiant tube
chambers, jet cooling units and after-pot coolers.
Tenova Italimpianti thermal sections cover a wide capacity range,
from 10 t/h up to 100 t/h.
Pots and related accessories
for GI/GL Lines and air knives
Tenova Italimpianti is a well-established supplier of reliable and efficient
induction-heated ceramic pots for galvanizing lines (GI/GL), designed
with top-quality components and materials.
With its fully automated air knife design, Tenova Italimpianti provides
a complete, integrated technology for the thermal section of the
galvanizing process.
A full selection of maintenance equipment is available, including a sink
roll preheating system.
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Pollution abatement facilities
(RTO and scrubbers)
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Tenova Italimpianti develops regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO) through
Tenova Metals, the new brand name of the Korean company Tenova
Envita.
The compact design and advanced technology content of the equipment
delivers highly efficient levels of volatile organic compound destruction.
The multi-chamber RTO unit implements reliable, durable solutions,
combined with high energy recovery to minimize maintenance concerns.
Burners
Burners are the heart of a furnace. Tenova Italimpianti designs
and supplies its own in-house advanced burner technology as
a component of most reheating furnace projects.
Its burners integrate the expertise of its engineering team and advanced
combustion research tools.
As a specialist in high-performance furnaces, Tenova Italimpianti has
developed the Flexytech® burner product line. The new generation
of Tenova Italimpianti FlexyTech® flameless burners implements the best
available technology on the combustion systems market, to provide
dramatic reductions in NOx emissions. Flameless technology is also
applied to regenerative burners, to deliver top performance for both NOx
emissions reduction and energy savings.
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Level 1 and Level 2
Automation
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Tenova Italimpianti provides in-house development of Level 1 and Level
2 automation systems for new furnace installations or for existing system
upgrades. The Tenova Flexytech® Level 1 system is a microprocessorbased system (PLC or DCS) interfaced with HMI (Human Machine
Interface) state-of-the-art display screens, to provide furnace operators
with manual, automatic or Level 2 control of furnace functions and
processes.
In 1981, Tenova Italimpianti was the first company to utilize on-line
mathematical models to automatically control the operating functions
of a reheating furnace. These mathematical models have been
continuously tested and improved through more than one hundred
reheating furnace performance evaluations and are now crucial
components of the Tenova Flexytech® Level 2 system. The Flexytech®
Level 2 system provides vital furnace performance benefits such as lower
specific fuel consumption and improved product temperature uniformity
as well as higher mill production rates.
Research and Sustainable
Development
Technological innovation is the main pillar of Tenova Italimpianti
competitiveness.
Energy savings, environmental protection and product quality are the
drivers of its in-house R&D.
On-going burner and combustion system developments rank Tenova
Italimpianti furnaces among the most technologically advanced
installations in the world.
Tenova Italimpianti uses an incremental innovation approach based on
extensive testing, development of modeling software, metallurgical knowhow and process technology.
Involvement in international R&D projects, together with collaboration
with customers, are key factors in Tenova Italimpianti product innovation.
Thanks to its solid background, Tenova Italimpianti is able to offer the
most advanced solutions to meet customer requirements. As the owner
of one of the industry’s most prestigious international research centers,
Tenova Italimpianti develops cutting-edge combustion technology such
as flameless regenerative burners in-house, in its combustion testing
facilities.
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Technical
Services
Tenova Italimpianti engineering services range from existing equipment
upgrades to the design and turnkey installation of integrated systems.
Services:
• Feasibility Studies
• Energy Surveys
• Plant Surveys
• Equipment Revamps
• Complete Project Management
• Construction and Start-up Supervision
• Training
• Maintenance Assistance
• Spare Parts
• Process Control and Automation Upgrades
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Quality
Tenova Italimpianti is committed to quality and continuous service
improvement and follows the best industry practices and standards
to meet or exceed customer expectations.
Tenova Italimpianti has introduced an excellence path involving a number
of companies with ISO 9001 certification in the Business Area and others
that plan to obtain certification from primary certifying bodies.
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Environmental
Responsibility
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Respect for the environment is a core value of Tenova Italimpianti projects.
Tenova Italimpianti’s commitment to the environment also takes the form
of investment in thermal process simulation models and combustion
systems to improve product efficiency and optimize control systems.
Focus
on People
People are vital to success and growth at Tenova Italimpianti. Almost 350
qualified engineers and technicians are the lifeblood of the company network.
Outstanding technical and management expertise in every area of
activity, a strong customer focus, a passion for innovation and continuous
flexibility: these are the features that distinguish Tenova Italimpianti
professionals.
With their different nationalities and varied operating experience, Tenova
Italimpianti specialists execute projects all over the world.
Their multicultural backgrounds equip them to take on new challenges i
n any location.
Tenova Italimpianti enhances and optimizes the talents of the individual
for the good of the team and the benefit of the customer.
By supervising every stage of professional growth and providing on-going
knowledge and skills training, Tenova Italimpianti guarantees the expertise
of its people.
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Tenova ITALIMPIANTI
Tenova S.p.A.
Via Albareto, 31
16153 Genoa - Italy
Phone +39 010 6054807
Fax +39 010 6054741
tenovaitalimpianti@tenova.com
Tenova
Tenova East Europe LLC
Ul. Gruzinskij val, dom 10, stroenie 4
123557 Moscow
Russia
Phone/Fax +7 495 995 95 07
temos@tenova.com
Tenova Hypertherm Pvt Ltd
2093, Oberoi Garden Estates
Chandivli, Andheri (E)
Mumbai 400 072 - India
Phone +91 22 66810200
Fax +91 22 2847 7703
tenovahypertherm@tenova.com
Tenova Representative Office for CIS
Ul. Gruzinskij val, dom 10, stroenie 4
123557 Moscow
Russia
Phone/Fax +7 495 995 95 07
temos@tenova.com
Tenova METALS
Tenova Core Inc
Cherrington Corporate Center
100 Corporate Center Drive
Coraopolis, PA 15108-3185 - USA
Phone +1 412 262 2240
Fax +1 412 262 2055
core@tenova.com
Tenova Envita Co Ltd
7-21 Songdo-dong, Yeonsoo-gu
Incheon - Korea
Phone +82 32 851 6212
Fax +82 32 816 6460
envita@tenova.com
www.tenova.com
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