• JFE Steel Corporation, Kurashiki Works, Coal charging car 1N and coke guide car 6N

Paul Wurth IHI Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, “PWIHI|”) is pleased to announce that it delivered new coal charging car 1N and new coke guide car 6N to JFE Steel Kurashiki Works in November 2017 and January 2018, respectively.

Coke oven batteries do not perform coal charging or coke discharging on its own. They are assisted by machines having wheels called “Coke oven machines” which travel on rails laid on top of coke ovens to handle coal and red hot coke.

Among coke oven machines, PWIHI delivered one “coal charging car” which charges coal (raw material) into respective oven and one “coke guide car” which guides ret hot coke pushed by the coke pusher machine out of the oven to the coke quenching car.

Coke oven machinery technology of Paul Wurth Group (hereinafter, “PW”) was developed by a German company SCHALKE which has more than 200 references worldwide. PW acquired the coke oven machinery segment of SCHALKE in 2014 and added the coke oven machine technology to its portfolio. Moreover, PW’s acquisition of KOCH (Germany) specializing in the field of coke oven machines for stamp charged batteries in 2018 helped PW to continue to strengthen coke oven machinery business, enabling the offering of wide-ranging coke-making technologies.

Through the accomplishment from this project, PWIHI is committed to expanding product portfolio and contributing to customers and society as a sole domestic supplier capable of offering a complete coke-making plant including coke oven batteries, coke oven machines, coke dry quenching, coke oven gas treatment plant.