Meet with Metsol at EOSC 2011 in Stockholm

Also take the oportunity to listen to our papers presented at the conference technical sessions:

• Dr Mselly Nzotta, Uddeholm AB, will present the importance of slag removal in order to increase steel quality with respect to non-metallic inclusions. The Metsol system LadleSlag was used to guarantee low slag carry-over and consistent slag removal every time. 

• Mr Sverker Ölund, Metsol AB, will present the LadleHeat technological package for keeping track of the thermal status of ladles in circulation. Real-time calculation and measurement model update guarantees a correct ladle thermal status to be used as input to the furnace tapping temperature calculation

Read more about the EOSC 2011 technical programme here.

Metsol is now hiring - work with us!

Metsol AB is seeking personnel for continuing serving the Nordic metals industry.

Are you looking for new challanges and are willing to work independently with an equal amount of freedom and responsibility? As an employee at Metsol you will never fall into a routine - new customers and new challanges will be waiting for you every day.

We are now seeking two positions:

Metallurgist - A senior metallurgist with vast industrial experience for consultancy work at the Metsol customers site where we always strive to combine theory and practice, and to perform and deliver beyond expectations. Metsol internal product development and technical sales will also be be part of the assignment. 

Sales engineer - A sales engineer with skilles in B2B, preferrably metals production related. This is a position with a high degree of independence and large variations - many challanges and possibilities if you have the right personality.

Read more in the attached add here (In Swedish).

If you do not speak any Nordic language but have the right skills we are always interested to come in contact with you. Are you already part of a consultancy company working in the heavy indusry sector? Welcome to join our network of technically skilled metals production consultants!

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Metsol at Metec

Ladle Seminar

Sign-up for our seminar "Ladles - the Key for Cost-efficient & Safe Production" jointly hosted by Metsol and IMSI. Get to know the latest technologies for safe and efficient ladle handling in steel production.

The seminar will be held in the late afternoon on Wednesday the June 29^th at a venue close to the Metec trade fair show in Düsseldorf. Please send a mail to Этот e-mail адрес защищен от спам-ботов, для его просмотра у Вас должен быть включен Javascript to sign up.

Paper presentation

Visit the SteelSim 2011 technological conference at the Metec congress to learn more about Metsol. Our paper "Dynamic Ladle Fleet Thermal Tracking" will be presented in the afternoon on Thursday the June 30^th.

Ruukki orders LadleSafe

The Finnish high quality flat products steelmaker Ruukki (Rautaruukki Corporation) has awarded Metsol an order on the LadleSafe ladle breakthrough early detection system. The system will be used for continuous monitoring of ladles while processed in the ladle furnace at the steel plant located in Raahe, Finland.

If a hot-spot is detected by the LadleSafe-system a warning is issued to the operator, who will react and take measures to avoid steel break through. Thus, personnel injuries, loss of production, and equipment damages can be avoided.

- "In our production personnel safety, production stability, and delivery accuracy are key elements. I believe that LadleSafe helps us to reach further on these areas in order to achieve our goals ", says Jukka Vatanen, head of refractories at the steel plant in Raahe, Finland.

Read more about the LadleSafe system for ladle survaillance>>

LadleFill - tapping surveillance

SSAB EMEA in Luleå, Sweden has awarded Metsol to supply a tapping monitoring system for surveillance of ladle metal level during tapping.

The LadleFill system will be used to monitor the torpedo car tapping of hot metal into transfer ladles and assists the operator to detect the metal liquid surface level in order to stop pouring in due time.

Overfilling the ladle above a predefined target level initially triggers an alarm. If the tapping proceeds, a second alarm is triggered and the tapping will be aborted. 

The system is based on vision technology for thermal cameras where a continuous feed of the thermal image stream is processed by the LadleFill analysis algorithms. The output from the image analysis is presented to the operator and automatically interpreted to keep track of the metal level in the ladle.

Overfilling of ladles is occasionally occurring in different locations of metals production. In integrated steelmaking, tapping the torpedo cars into ladles is a process where overfilling occurs from time to time due to the discrepancy in volume between the two vessels in combination with severe smoke and dust generation. Any metal spillage on ladle cars and similar is likely to cause damage and loss of production.