Engineering the move away from the blast furnace
European steelmaking is being rebuilt around the electric arc furnace. We do the engineering that turns that intention into a plant that can actually be built and run.
Decarbonizing an integrated works is not a single project. It is a decade of interlocking decisions about routes, energy supply, raw materials and what happens to the assets that get displaced. Most of those decisions are made long before anyone breaks ground, and they are made on engineering studies.
Our role sits in that early window. We model the routes, size the utilities, work out what the existing site can absorb and put a defensible CAPEX against each option, so the investment case rests on numbers a contractor will later stand behind.
Inside the scope
Decarbonization roadmaps
Route comparison, mass and energy balance, staged transition plans and the CAPEX profile that goes with each scenario.
Ultra-low-carbon (ULC) steel
Balance-of-plant and cooling engineering inside the European ULC programmes, where the process envelope keeps moving while the plant is being designed.
EAF transition
Melt shop layout, furnace and ladle furnace integration, material handling and fume treatment for sites converting from the integrated route.
Where we have done it
Salzgitter (Germany): FEED and basic design for the EAF transition and green steel concept, with CAPEX estimation. Tata Steel IJmuiden (Netherlands): seawater cooling system, structures and pipe racks inside the ULC Steel programme, 2023-26. Tata Steel Port Talbot (UK): water cooling for EAF, LF and Consteel, including hose and flexible connection studies. NSC Yawata (Japan): detailed EAF and LF piping design.
Is this the piece you are missing?
Send us the plant, the constraint and the timeline. You will get an engineer's answer, not a brochure.