Steelmaking

Carmeuse is a global leader and expert in providing lime products and solutions customized to steelmaking applications needs. Carmeuse offers a variety of quality high calcium lime and dolime products including pebble lime, as well as crushed lime and limestone for both Basic Oxygen Furnaces (BOF) and Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) processes. Lime products are the main components (fluxes) to make slag that is protecting and purifying the steel and notably helps to remove phosphorus and silica. Proper use of quality lime from Carmeuse allows to enhance productivity and sustainability. Through decades of customer support, Carmeuse has developed an expertise in the proper use of lime in the steelmaking process.

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BOF STEELMAKING

Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) is the most demanding steelmaking process in the industry to produce quality steel. It requires high quality products and technology to sustain reliability and competitiveness. Because of the growing demand for high-grade steel products, there is a demand for lower levels of impurities (such as phosphorus and sulphur) in the steelmaking process.

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EAF STEELMAKING

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking requires high-quality lime and dolime to produce high quality steel. Steelmaking is evolving to more sustainable practices, leading to a transformation to more EAF steelmaking and an evolution in the quality of input scrap and DRI. High quality lime and dolime have and will continue to play an important role in this.

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