An integrated steel South American steel company contracted a Chinese equipment supplier to construct a none-recovery by-product coke oven plant. Ferrousity conducted a technical investigation leading to compilation of an expert witness report, identifying defects in design and equipment manufacture. The case was settled out of court.
An integrated steel South American steel company contracted a Chinese equipment supplier to construct an EAF and rolling Mini Mill. Ferrousity conducted a technical investigation leading to compilation of an expert witness report, identifying defects in design and equipment manufacture.
A major UK steel producer rented land from a marine company for the stocking and storage of iron ores and other steelmaking raw materials. During the rent review process, the two parties failed to agree and the dispute ended up in a tribunal. Ferrousity was asked, by the tribunal, to address several questions, relating to…
A South American steelmaker procured an EAF mini mill and rod and bar mill from a Chinese supplier of iron and steel equipment. The plant, supplied by the Chinese companies, had major design deficiencies and gross faults in equipment manufacture. Customer and supplier failed to agree and Ferrousity worked on behalf of the steel company…
A steel company ceased operations and large quantities of secondary steelmaking slag remained at the site. The slag did not have any commercial value and the high basicity of the slag and its high disposal cost for landfill would have left the site landlord with environmental responsibilities and onerous site clearance and landfill costs….
Ferrousity, Managing Director Bill Penn, has been involved in more than 40 cause investigations regarding large industrial plant failure. Over 20 of these investigations have covered different types of furnace failures for ferrous and non-ferrous furnaces. Other forensic investigation cases have involved other equipment in metals plants and material handling/unloading facilities. Establishing the detailed root…
A supplier of pig iron failed to meet contracted supplies forcing the steel producer to utilise inferior feedstock in the electric arc furnace, resulting in loss of production and sales and additional power costs. Ferrousity developed process and cost models to measure the disruption in lost production and increased costs. The case was resolved…
An integrated steel company reneged on several supplies of iron ore from an Indian iron ore supplier. The steel company originally claimed that the reason they refused delivery was because of problems with iron ore quality. Ferrousity analysis of sampling and samples identified that the iron ore was in specification and further investigations revealed that…
An EU power generator procured coke oven gas ‘over the fence’ from a steel producer. After a deterioration of gas quality, this led to accelerated corrosion failure of the turbine blades. Ferrousity investigated the metallurgy of the failure and the chemical specification of the coke oven gas, finding that deterioration of the gas cleaning system…