about Our Company
At United Heavy Industries Pty. Ltd., we take pride in being an eco-friendly mini steel mill specialising in steel billets. We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and promoting sustainability in the steel industry.
With a strong commitment to quality issues, we ensure that our steel billets meet specification requirements. We have standard operating procedures for stringent quality control measures at every stage of billet manufacturing.
In addition to our focus on quality, we are dedicated to embracing efficient processes, highly productive equipment, and emissions control to achieve operational excellence. We continuously strive to optimise our operations and minimise waste, leading to very efficient production and a reduced environmental impact.
Our skilled and motivated personnel continually improve the production processes to enhance manufacturing capabilities.
Whether you are a customer, partner, or any other stakeholder, we invite you to join us on our journey towards a sustainable future. Together, we can positively impact the steel industry while delivering steel products and services with a reduced carbon footprint.
Our Eco-Friendly Operations
Our raw material is steel scrap, which we melt in an induction furnace. Then, we cast the liquid steel into a continuous casting machine to make Steel Billets. Let us explore the benefits:
1. Efficient process: Melting scrap in an induction furnace is an efficient and clean process with higher yield and lesser dust, slag, and waste.
2. Environmental Sustainability: Utilizing steel scrap in production helps recycle waste material. Recycling scrap reduces the need to extract and process iron ore, thus helping conserve natural resources. This approach also helps reduce the need for landfilling waste and minimises the overall environmental impact of steel production.
3. Flexibility and Versatility: Steel scrap allows for flexibility in billet composition. Different types of steel scrap can be blended to achieve the desired chemical composition for specific applications. This flexibility enables manufacturers to produce billets with varying compositions and properties, thus meeting the requirements of various industries and customers.
4. Energy Efficiency: Induction furnaces are known for their high energy efficiency. They use electromagnetic induction to generate heat directly in the metal charge.
5. Quality Control: The induction furnace provides precise control over the heating process, ensuring uniform heating and good mixing of molten metal in the furnace. This ensures consistent quality of the liquid steel produced. This control helps achieve the desired chemical composition and eliminates impurities present in scrap in the form of slag, producing liquid steel of the required composition.
6. Continuous Casting: A continuous casting machine allows for the continuous production of billets, eliminating the need for individual ingot casting. This method improves productivity and reduces the need for several processing steps. Continuous casting also produces billets with a sound micro-structure.
7. Time Efficiency: Combining an induction furnace and a continuous casting machine enables a streamlined and efficient production process. The rapid heating of the induction furnace and continuous casting of liquid steel significantly reduce the overall production time and increase production flexibility, thus more effectively meeting market demands.
In summary, using steel scrap, an induction furnace, and a continuous casting machine for billet production offers process efficiency, environmental sustainability, flexibility in composition, energy efficiency, quality control, time efficiency, and improved production flexibility. These advantages make us an Eco-Friendly Steel Mill.
Some of the interesting facts about steel
- Steel is intimately linked with economic growth and prosperity.
- Steel is at the heart of our sustainable future.
- Steel, which is once made, can be used as steel forever.
- Steel is at the core of a green economy, in which economic growth and environmental responsibility coexist.
- Steel is intrinsic to the present-day way of life of the people.
- Steel helps meet the needs of modern society.
- Steel touches everyone’s lives around the world every day through a large number of consumer goods. There is hardly any object used today that does not contain steel, or that is not made with steel equipment.
- Steel is a unique material because it combines strength, recyclability, availability, versatility, and affordability.
At United Heavy Industries Pty Ltd, we make steel following the production route of Scrap - Induction furnace – Continuous casing machine. This production route is
- Environmentally friendly
- It uses scrap waste material, thus helping to create a circular economy and sustainability.
- It produces very little specific carbon dioxide gas (greenhouse gas), thus helping in the fight against global warming.
This route has several advantages over other steel production routes, as given below.
- The production route of Scrap - Induction furnace – Continuous casing machine conserves energy by eliminating the use of ingot moulds and bottom plates, and facilities like ingot stripping, ingot mould preparation, heating of ingots in soaking pits, and rolling of ingots into billets in the blooming mill.
- This route of steel production produces killed steel with a sound internal microstructure, low levels of dissolved gases, and non-metallic inclusions.
- The use of scrap in steel production conserves iron ore, coking coal, limestone, and dolomite. On average, producing 1 ton of steel from scrap conserves an estimated 1,030 kg of iron ore, 580 kg of coal, 50 kg of limestone, and 30 kg of dolomite. Steel scrap recycling saves energy. In fact, 99.9 % of scrap melted results in the production of new steel while producing negligible environmentally undesirable waste.
- Steel production through an induction furnace is an energy-efficient method with very low levels of refractory consumption, slag and dust generation, and melting losses.
- Liquid steel casting in a continuous casting machine is energy efficient, improves metal yield, minimises scrap generation, and produces billets with internal soundness.
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