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...
In a business such as ours, where our special steels are mainly intended for demanding sectors such as the car industry, ensuring a perfect product traceability has become not only a requirement, but also an inner principle by means of which we know exactly where and when each of our references are at the...
Sidenor will participate in the “Clean Steel 2018” conference, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on September 18 – 20, 2018 This 10th edition is organised by the Hungarian Mining and Metallurgical Society and is becoming, year after year, a reference event for all those involved in steel production by means of inclusions which...
After various cyberattacks in some big companies in 2017, more and more information systems departments undertake actions so as to minimise risks and prevent all kinds of cyberattacks. Accordingly, Sidenor’s IT Department has developed an ambitious cybersecurity plan which covers various lines of work: Review of the securitization process of the entire computer equipment Update...
Funded by the European Union’s LIFE programme, the 5RefrACT project (SYSTEMATIC AND INTEGRAL VALORIZATION OF REFRACTORIES UNDER THE "5R" APPROACH), led by SIDENOR, was launched on July 1st. The 5RefrACT project mainly aims at extending the “4R” paradigm up to “5R” (reduce – reuse – remanufacture – recycle – re-educate) and applying it to the...
Sidenor Forgings & Castings at the SMM Fair in Hamburg Sidenor Forgings & Castings will take part in the major international trade fair of the maritime industry, the SMM in Hamburg, where over 50,000 visitors are expected. From 4 - 7 September, and under the motto "Trends in SMMart Shipping", over 2,200 exhibitors from 66 countries...
Steel industry requirements with regard to mechanical properties are each day more demanding, so as to be in line with cost improvement and energy consumption as well as environmental regulations that are becoming more and more restrictive Among the most damaging elements regarding steel features such as resistance, impact, forging capacity and, mainly, fatigue life,...