Tenova Core has been contracted by Steel Dynamics, Inc., for the design and supply of a 100 ton/hour walking beam reheating furnace at its Pittsboro, Ind., facility.

The furnace will be reheating plain carbon, low alloy, high alloy billets and blooms that will be used for rolling of Special Bar Quality (SBQ).

The walking beam furnace will be equipped with Tenova LOI Italimpianti Flexytech low NOx burners for reduced emissions. Tenova Core will also design and supply the process control system and the Level 2 thermodynamic modeling system for efficient heating of the steel.

Start-up is scheduled for 2013.

Tenova Core is part of the Tenova Iron & Steel Division and is a leader for the design and supply of reheating, heat treating, specialty and carbon processing furnaces as well as melt shop equipment, technical services and automation systems.