Relining of the Sidmar blast furnace A

In 2003, Sidmar commissioned the renewed blast furnace A at the Ghent works. It will operate together with the existing blast furnace B to provide an ironmaking capacity of 4.5 million t/year under optimal circumstances. The furnace was designed and constructed under an engineering contract with Paul Wurth and by a joint Sidmar engineering and project team. This will be the fifth campaign of blast furnace A. This paper describes the relining operations.