Furnaces International News
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Construction milestone at EGA’s aluminium recycling plant
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has charged its giant melting furnaces with scrap metal, marking a construction milestone.
26 January 2026 -
Primetals upgrades ladle furnace at Tonggang
Primetals Technologies has completed a ladle furnace upgrade at Tonghua Iron and Steel (Tonggang) in Jilin Province, China.
22 January 2026 -
SMS Group completes blast furnace repair in record time
SMS Group has completed the hearth repair of a blast furnace at Třinecké Železárny in the Czech Republic, in just 42 days.
22 January 2026 -
Glass Technology Services completes research furnace commissioning
Glass Technology Services (GTS) has completed the construction and commissioning of a large-scale research furnace at its Sheffield, UK laboratory facility.
21 January 2026 -
Vishakha to expand solar glass capacity
Vishakha will expand the capacity of its solar glass plant in Mundra, India, from 660 tpd to 1260 tpd.
21 January 2026 -
Ciner begins furnace construction at Belgian glass site
Ciner Glass has started building the first furnace at its container glass site in Lommel, Belgium.
21 January 2026
Metal refractory training programmes
Two training programmes designed for refractory operators in the metals industry have been launched at The Applied Materials Research Innovations & Commercialisation Company (AMRICC) Centre.
Ipsen's furnace training programme
Ipsen USA has added to its vacuum furnace training programme.
Dillinger improves Rogesa blast furnace cooling
Dillinger has placed an order with German plant builder SMS group for new Paul Wurth cast iron staves and a number of copper staves for blast furnace 5, which has an annual production volume of around 2.5Mt of hot metal.
Sorg achieves 100% electric glass conditioning
Sorg has successfully completed long-term testing of its fully electric ‘Viking’ forehearth, which enables glass conditioning for all tonnages.
