After purchasing Reveal CAST for top and bottom surface inspection, our customer decided to add also surface inspection for the side of the slabs. This can be easily done, and it is one of the great advantages for our customers because Sapotech products can always...

The 10th international metallurgical trade fair and congress will take place at Messe Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany on June 25th to 29th. This is one of the most important steel fairs, where experts and top leaders from the metallurgical industry meet. Find us at...

One of our customers wanted to measure the plate perimeter with high precision and, at the same time, inspect the surface quality of all the plates, hot or cold, produced at the plate mill. To solve this need, Sapotech uses Reveal CAST perimeter detection and...

What are Sapotech goals for this year 2019 and what are your expectations for the company? Our goal for the year 2019 is ambitious. We need to expand our markets and engage customers abroad. Our focus will be on the Americas and Asia, where we received first...

Sapotech Senior Expert Dr. Paavo Hooli and Sales Director Dr. Hannu Suopajärvi have published a paper at the January issue of the International Journal of the Italian Association for Metallurgy. The paper describes the various ways on how to utilize Reveal CAST...

We have just delivered, installed and commissioned Reveal TAP system to a new customer. This steel plant needed to monitor and estimate the molten steel levels in the ladle after the tapping from the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) and the steel mass. A fixed camera was...

Last week, our expert metallurgist Juha Roininen participated in the third meeting of SUPPORT - CAST project, at one the participants premise in Spain. SUPPORT - CAST aims to develop online-monitoring systems and numerical models to identify defects during the steel...

With our demo projects, it is possible to have a quick glimpse to the benefits that you get with our Reveal products installed at your production line. During a typical Reveal CAST demo (2 - 5 days) we demonstrate the technical performance of our surface inspection...

We have upgraded our Reveal CAST brochure. Check out the new features and benefits of Reveal CAST! Reveal CAST is a total solution for surface quality monitoring. It covers processes from continuous casting to the final product. Download our Reveal CAST brochure at:...

Reveal CAST has been installed to image the top and bottom side of slabs in a record time of only 4 days. This customer is a steel producer and we are expecting a successful commissioning of this project in the upcoming months. Reveal CAST can be used to visualize and...

Sapotech solutions are versatile and they can be customized to our customer´s specific needs. For example, a new application for Reveal TAP has been developed with one of our key customers in a new location in the steel production. The new Reveal TAP solution enables...

A meeting of the European project: Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) was held in Italy last month at the location of our partner Feralpi. Interesting discussions and conclusions were achieved during this meeting where Sapotech experts Juha Roininen and Paavo...

Our experts Dr. Paavo Hooli and Chief Metallurgist Juha Roininen had two presentations at the 7th International Congress on Science and Technology of Steel Making (ICS2018) in Venice, last week. Dr. Hooli explained how Reveal CAST can help the surface quality...

Sapotech experts Dr. Paavo Hooli and Chief Metallurgist Juha Roininen will have presentations at the ICS2018 in Venice on 13-15 June. This event will take place at the Venice Mestre mainland, at NH Laguna Palace and it gathers researchers and experts involved in the...

For the first time Sapotech participated in an exposition together with Vesuvius. This is the beginning of a fruitful co-operation to provide customers with a complete, state-of-the-art solutions for steel production. We would like to thank all the experts who visited...

Dr. Paavo Hooli, Sapotech’s Senior Adviser, was granted the award for the best presentation at the International Workshop of Surface Quality of Continuously Cast Products (IWSQ 2016) in Bergamo, Italy. His presentation included examples of changes in the surface...

Consistent and high slab quality is one of the cornerstones for high-quality final products as well as for efficient production and for short lead times. It is known that some of the events that may cause surface defects can be seen from the process data, such as...

After successful operation of Reveal CAST in the continuous casting line with improved slab quality, one of our key customers requested two additional systems to be installed to their hot rolling mill. By having Reveal CAST in continuous casting and in hot rolling,...