KALCOR lining bends and laterals for Vinh Tan 4 CFPP
Transporting fly ash in the pipeline is always make the operators „headache“. Almost CFPPs in Vietnam are young and new-built, some of them have a big problem with ash transportation. Vinh Tan 4 CFPP included 03 units (600MW each) has operated since 2018, last year they faced a serious problem with fly ash bends. The […]
Long-lived cascade chute to fill blast furnace
The cascade chute is a fail-safe means of conveying materials located at the top of a blast furnace. Raw materials, including heavy hot briquetted iron (HBI), are deposited onto the chute via the transport and conveyance systems to which it is connected. Such materials cause a great deal of abrasion and impact wear. The chute […]
Strong armour
Kalenborn has been a partner to one of the largest manufacturers of steel in North Africa since 2015. The company supplies customers all over the world, handling 5.8 million tonnes of steel per year. Iron ore pellets are used in steel production as a raw material for the blast furnace process or direct reduction. They […]
KALCERAM – in Europe’s largest heavy-plate works
Europe’s leading manufacturer of heavy plates is a long-standing customer of Kalenborn. From steel bridges and skyscrapers to oil and gas pipelines, the company’s plates are used in numerous projects all around the world. The company’s headquarters is also the site of the coking plant, which produces coke for the two blast furnaces at the […]
Nothing in the way of this mill scale
At a continuous casting plant steel ingots are cast and then cut to appropriate length. Due to the high temperatures, scale develops on the outside of the ingots and is rinsed away in chutes with water to a basin. The scale takes the form of grains some 5 mm in size and causes serious wear […]
Kalenborn helps solve wear problems at Energy Star-certified cement plant
One of the largest global producers of building materials relies on Kalenborn solutions at a California cement plant to solve problems of premature wear and clogging on a pneumatic conveyance line for alternative fuel. The plant, which has received EPA Energy Star certification and multiple awards for its environmental-protection and land-stewardship efforts, produces more than […]
Kalenborn do Brasil: Abrasion-resistant steel tubes protect against iron ore
Iron ore is a key raw material which is extracted as rock from ore mines. Various industrial processing steps refine the ore till it is in the form of pressed pellets. It is in this form that the ore is used for the manufacture of steel. Our customer is the world’s leading producer of iron […]
KALENBORN ABRESIST: Wear protection – slide promotion
Potassium salts are recovered in mining and are a major component of many fertilizers. For refining, the salts are separated from other solids in several stages. This complex process is possible only in robust plants with excellent wear protection. It is exactly in this field that Kalenborn Abresist has been proving itself for over 20 […]
PROJECT NEWS: First full-service job in Vietnam
In 2020, the COVID 19 disease has a huge impact on all industrial plants, and Vietnam is not outside that affected area. Thermal power plants must run at full capacity to serve increasing demand while reducing maintenance downtime. It is also a challenge for companies that supply the maintenance service of power plants, including EPS […]
Built in-house and specially protected – coal dust distributors and pipelines in the power plant
One of our customers is a plant manufacturer that is among Europe’s biggest producers of boilers used in coal-fired power stations and waste incineration plants. En route to the burners, the coal dust pipelines branch into the so-called “coal dust distributors”. Their complex geometries and the high velocity of the abrasive medium subject them to […]