Sustainability, innovation, reliability and safety are Tenova’s commitments, and the company’s technological solution always drive to reduce energy consumption and increase the overall facility efficiency. The improvements in our product portfolios and the fostered connection with our clients are developed through digital technologies, such as predictive maintenance, remote assistance and artificial intelligence. Moreover, Tenova is now taking a step forward towards the development of new integrated business models by applying the principles of Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy.
Example of these applications in reheating and heat-treating is the Tenova Self Regenerative Burner (TRGS), the smart burner that includes the optimization of the heat process through the interaction with digital application.
In the field of cold rolling, Pomini Digital Texturing (PDT) is Tenova’s new disruptive technology solution for the roll texturing market, where it is of utmost importance to achieve the correct surface quality on the metal sheet and to grant the highest performance in terms of paintability and formability.
With reference to sustainability, Tenova is working in the direction of decarbonization of steel production, replacing carbon partially or totally with hydrogen as reducing agent of the Direct Reduction (DR) process. The company has already two ongoing pilot projects implementing this technology in Europe. One is Salcos (SAlzgitter Low CO₂ Steelmaking), a revolutionary concept for a significantly CO₂-reduced steel production with the DR technology (jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli) with integrated CO₂ absorption system. The other one is Hybrit, an initiative for fossil-free steelmaking that was established in 2016 by Hybrit Development AB, a Swedish joint venture between SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall, with the aim to replace coking coal with hydrogen in order to obtain a fossil-free steel making process route with virtually no carbon footprint. In the framework of Industry 4.0, Tenova is investigating the use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) as alternative technology for the production of some defined metal parts.
Another important project for Tenova is its Lighthouse Plant “Acciaio_4.0”, developed in partnership with ORI Martin (one of the main European integrated steel groups specialized in high-quality steel). The goal is to create a cyber physical factory at ORI Martin’s steel plant in Brescia (Italy), i.e. the first model of massive application of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s most innovative technologies.
You can find Tenova in Hall 4, Booth A21