Semi-finished Products [ Return towards  Metallurgy  ]

Air Liquide has designed a state-of-the-art-oxy-combustion reheating technology, meeting your needs. The solution for Semi-finished products in reheating furnaces to meet the steelmakers' objectives of increasing productivity, saving energy and reducing investment. The oxy-combustion reheating technology allows faster heat transfer, increased furnace capacity, and more uniform temperature gradients. The burner characteristics include major benefits for you, such as fuel savings up to 50%, an increase of the production up to 40%, a reduction of the heat-up time by more than 40%, and a homogenous temperature profile.

The offer for Semi-fnished products through ALNAT atmosphere solutions for annealing are mainly based on Nitrogen / Hydrogen / Hydrocarbon or Nitrogen / cracked Methanol mixtures. Benefits of the ALNAT solutions include improved safety, low-maintenance operation, high quality surface cleaning, and a reliable and competitive atmosphere at low capital costs. The composition of gas mixtures is fairly flexible. In addition, Air Liquide provides safety checks of your gas supply system.

The expertise of our professional staff and our capacity for innovation provides you with solutions which are competitive and perfectly in tune with your requirements.

Discover our applications dedicated to the semi-finished industries.

The preservation of the environment is one of our highest values, so we set up solutions to reduce energy consumption and to ensure waste water treatment.