Primetals Technologies receives FAC for heat treatment equipment at Borusan Mannesmann

U.K.-based Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate from Borusan Mannesmann Pipe U.S. for heat treatment equipment installed in the company´s new ERW pipe mill in Baytown, Texas. The equipment is used to quench and temper oil country tubular goods (OCTG).

The Baytown facility is a subsidiary of the Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann Boru and is the first Turkish-owned plant in the U.S.

Primetals Technologies supplied FCE – F&D Furnace Technologies quenching and tempering equipment, including a direct-fired, walking-beam, austenitizing furnace; a high-pressure, water spray quench system; a convective, walking-beam tempering furnace; all associated material handling equipment; all necessary instrumentation; and a PLC system. Services included engineering, delivering, installing, and commissioning for the heat treatment plant.