Walking Beam Furnace for Billets, Blooms and Beam Blanks

Walking Beam Furnaces are the most compact solution featuring high productivity in a limited layout thus achieving the shortest reheating time and the best temperature uniformity.

The long experience of Tenova reflected by more than 350 Walking Beam Furnaces supplied worldwide together with a continuous improvement of the process and equipment, assure the maximum furnace flexibility to cope with the specific requirements of the Hot Rolling Mills.

This assures smooth operation and easy maintenance, high final product quality and enhanced sustainability.

A wide range of reliable solutions for the mechanical and for the combustion systems can be combined according to the customers’ requirement.

Combustion systems and burners are specifically designed for a wide variety of fuels, including those ones having a poor Net Heating Value (such as BFG, PG, MG). The use of those fuels optimizes the usage of available utilities and resources at customer’s plant, minimizing the operating costs and improving the overall sustainability.

The best heating performances are achieved combining specific solutions for billets/blooms with the latest advancements in Walking Beam Furnaces design: hot rider and skid system technology, process control and on-line mathematical model Level 2 automation as well as advanced burner technology.

In recent years, the proven reliability of Tenova Walking Beam Furnaces is combined to a new generation of advanced features to shift the Furnace into a high technological production unit. The Digital Solutions, New algorithms and Innovative AI models for enhanced process control and proactive management of the assets assure an increased sustainability and profitability of the furnace system.