Equipment proven on screen before it is cut
Heavy equipment for hot, dirty, high-load duty. Designed from first principles and validated numerically, because the prototype is the production machine.
There is no prototype run for a 300 tonne transfer car or a water-cooled furnace panel. The first one built is the one that goes into service, and it has to survive thermal cycling, mechanical shock and an environment that punishes optimistic assumptions.
So the analysis has to carry the risk. We size structures with FEA, check thermal and flow behaviour with CFD, and model the full assembly in 3D against the real plant geometry before releasing anything for fabrication.
Inside the scope
Equipment design
Mechanical design of furnace equipment, transfer cars, ladles, handling systems and custom machinery, engineered to the plant's cycle and layout.
FEA & stress analysis
Structural and thermal finite-element analysis of critical components, with the calculations packaged as certifiable documentation.
CFD analysis
Furnace gas flow, fume extraction, combustion and ventilation studies used to validate a design rather than explain it afterwards.
3D modelling
Full 3D plant and equipment models with clash detection, driven off laser scans where the existing layout has to be matched.
Where we have done it
Vinton Steel (USA, 2025): basic and detail engineering of EAF tapping, shell transfer and empty ladle transfer cars, plus a steel shop ladle. Aluminium skimming machines, melting furnaces and ingot dryers designed for recyclers across three continents. Strategic CFD analysis for Nervacero and Megasa canopy and rectification studies. Toolchain includes ANSYS, SolidWorks, Inventor, CATIA, PV Elite, CAESAR II and AVEVA E3D.
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.