High free opening rate of ladles is a key factor during steelmaking to keep steel quality high and for safety purposes. To ensure high opening rate, steelmakers use filler sand to avoid a direct contact of the liquid metal with the slide gate-system of the steel...

This is a new customer who wanted to improve its process operation by monitoring the temperature of the ladle outer walls and detect on time any critical heat. Our solution IR cameras with high resolution were used so there was a real time visualization and monitoring...

Our customer was facing some difficulties in its steel production. During the continuous casting process, one of the caster rolls was causing defects on some of the slabs surfaces. Our solution After the root cause of the defect was found, our customer, with the help...

Our customer needed to visualize and inspect the surface condition of their slabs during production from both top and bottom side. He also wished this installation to be done quickly so it wouldn’t interfere or slow down the steel production. Our solution Reveal CAST...

One of our key customers wanted to distinguish between the metal and slag that was pouring out of its arc furnace so there could be a clear vision of the molten stream and under safe conditions from the control room. The customer needed specifically to monitor two tap...

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...