The kickoff meeting of the ESSA project (“Blueprint “New Skills Agenda Steel”: Industry-driven sustainable European Steel Skills Agenda and Strategy”) took place on January 21st and 22d in Brussels . The project mainly aims at developing an action plan for defining an industry-driven sustainable European steel skills agenda, as well as setting up a strategy...
The European Commission has just launched the official communications on the research programmes which have been approved for funding within the framework of the call of proposals for 2018 of the RFCS programme and are due to start next June. The research programme is directly linked to the steel sector, with the regular participation of...
Sidenor’s collaboration with EHU/UPV has taken a further step. Within the framework of the master, Juanjo Laraudogoitia, head of Sidenor R&D, and Zuriñe Idoyaga, main product researcher, have been teaching key related training contents since November 2018. For each topic, the two-day sessions start with basic metallurgy knowledge, such as iron-carbon phase diagram or heat...
Last September, a technical follow-up meeting of the project named “Líquidos Iónicos como solución innovadora para una ecOnomía sosteNible en Euskadi” (“Ionic liquids as an innovative solution for a sustainable economy in the Basque country”) took place in TECNALIA’s facilities. The project, with the acronym: LION, has a duration of two years and gathers...
Almost 1,000 lightweighting suggestions for the chassis, powertrain, transmission and drive-specific electronic parts of a hybrid passenger car as well as for a truck powertrain have been developed. That is the result of anunprecedented international initiative consisting of companies from the steel and forging industries. The collaborative ideas relate to lightweighting achieved through materials,...
Today, our colleagues José Cruz Zirión and Óscar Olariaga from the purchase department are attending the 34th International Ferroalloys Conference, the annual encounter organised by Metal Bulletin, which takes place in Portugal on November 11th –13th. The previous edition gathered more than 700 delegations, including over hundred steel companies from all over the world. A...
Sidenor has received the ISO 45001 certification; it is the first steel company, at national level, to have obtained this certification, which has been put into effect in 2018. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE TEAM – YOU HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE! In order to achieve this, it has been necessary to adapt the management system, which was...
* Together with Muon Systems, Sidenor is studying the possibility of implementing an innovative technical solution for material recognition, in order to look into the objects and surroundings needed in the steel activity without damaging, modifying or physically accessing them * 17 start-ups, SMEs, universities and technology centres from the Basque Country, the rest of...
Thanks to the work developed by Sidenor’s IT department in the past few months, SAP users have seen the efficiency of their work increase by 40%. Processes such as budgeting or stock checks on the accounting date, which used to consume a lot of memory and require long execution times, have been reduced from...
The revamping of Sidenor’s new rolling mill aim at ensuring the effectiveness of rolling processes, increasing their control, quality and stability, while keeping the door open to future productivity increases. For this purpose, and based on an improved cross-section of the billet (240x240) as well as the removal of the previous, obsolete roll stands, we...