ThyssenKrupp steelworks Schwelgern

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View from Alsumer Berg to the Schwelgern coking plant (left in the foreground) and the Schwelgern steelworks (right in the background).

The ThyssenKrupp Schwelgern plant in Duisburg - Marxloh is part of the Bruckhausen steelworks, one of the largest steelworks in Germany, and produces pig iron with two blast furnaces . Its two 250-meter-high chimneys, which are part of the sintering plant , are the tallest chimneys in a steelworks in Germany. The plant has two blast furnaces . Schwelgern 2 blast furnace , which went into operation in 1993 and has a usable volume of around 4,800 cubic meters, is the largest in Europe with a frame diameter of 14.9 meters. According to the company, it produced over 75 million tons of pig iron in the first twenty years of operation. In April 2005, according to the steel institute VDEh , the blast furnace had produced almost 44 million tons of pig iron, setting a European record. In mid-June 2014 the blast furnace completed its first furnace journey ; it was completely refurbished by the end of September 2014 for a second kiln trip for 200 million euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team celebrates milestone: Europe's largest blast furnace produces the 70 millionth ton of steel. ThyssenKrupp press release of February 3, 2012, accessed on June 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.stahl-online.de/index.php/tks-groesster-hochofen-europas-vor-modernisierung/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thyssenkrupp-steel-europe.com
  4. ↑ Stahlinstitut VDEh in the steel center: Modernization of pig iron production in Germany 2005 ( Memento from December 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf, 170 kB, accessed on March 27, 2011).
  5. ↑ Brigitte Koch: Fit for the second trip . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 17, 2014, p. 23.
  6. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/duisburg/duisburger-hochofen-wird-modernisiert-id9357281.html

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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 3 ″  E