ARCELORMITTAL
TO UPGRADE WITH WOODINGS AUTOMATED HYDRAULIC DRILL
(Mars, PA) –ArcelorMittal has placed an order with Woodings Industrial Corporation for a new hydraulic drill
to be installed at the steelmaker’s Indiana Harbor East No. 7 Blast Furnace.
The new drill, which features advanced automated hydraulic drilling technology with water mist, will replace
an existing pneumatic drill on the Blast Furnace’s No.1 taphole.
The drill, designed and built by Woodings, is slated to be commissioned during the 2nd quarter of 2010. Woodings
supplied a new front end assembly and feedshell, complete with hydraulic drifter and hydraulic feed motor.
To reduce project costs, Woodings designed the system to utilize the existing boom arm assembly.
The Woodings hydraulic drill will provide the following benefits to the blast furnace operation:
- reduced drilling times
- more reliable casting practice
- higher feed-motor power and rotational torque
- high frequency impact to improve the drilling process and reduce potential for taphole refractory damage
The drill also features fully automated controls for push-button control and spot-on predictability and
repeatability.
About Woodings Industrial Corp.
The only hot metal equipment supplier offering design, engineering,
manufacturing and service from one source, Woodings Industrial Corp. is the oldest continuous family-operated
business in North America’s steel industry. A worldwide leader in the manufacture of metals industry
equipment, Woodings uses the most current technologies to design, engineer and manufacture an extensive line
of traditional and not-so-traditional hot metal equipment, such as tap hole drills, clay guns, tuyere stocks,
blast furnace valves and engineering specialty products for continuous casters. Woodings is the exclusive supplier
of Grabe overlay components in North America and has plants at its headquarters in Mars and Harmony, Pa., along
with offices in Detroit and Gary, Ind.
For more information about Woodings Industrial Corporation, visit: http://www.woodings.com or call Al Colucci
at 724-625-3131.
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