SMS group is renowned worldwide for its future-oriented technologies and outstanding service for the metals industry. The company applies its 150 years of experience and its digital know-how to provide the industry continuously with innovative products and processes – even beyond its core business – and generates worldwide sales of more than 2.7 billion euros. SMS is the right partner for challenging projects, and supports its customers throughout the lifecycle of their plants, enabling profitable and resource-efficient value creation chains. Paving the way for a carbon-neutral and sustainable metals industry is the company’s stated goal. As a global player with German roots, SMS takes responsibility for its about 14,000 employees.
Lifecycle partnership
As a global, leading partner for the metals industry, we are committed to the success of our customers and strive to enhance performance along the entire value chain of the global production of steel, aluminium and copper.
Green metals
At SMS group, we have made it our mission to create a carbon-neutral and sustainable metals industry. We supply the technology to produce and recycle all major metals. This gives us a key role in the transformation towards a green metals industry.
Copper and non-ferrous metals
Non-ferrous metals from Copper, Nickel, Platinum to Tin keep the world moving. We are the leading partner for these industries.
Additive manufacturing
SMS group plays a major role in the development of additive manufacturing technology, from plants for the production of metals powder to the design of 3D-printed parts.
Battery recycling
Our Joint venture Primobius offers large-scale sustainable recycling for end-of-life and scrap lithium-ion-battery (LIB) cells that can drastically reduce the CO2 footprint of vehicle and cell makers.
Port logistics
Our joint venture Boxbay has developed a disruptive technology for port logistics that significantly improves operations at container terminals.
Circular economy
With our in-depth metallurgical, technological and digital know-how we develop recycling solutions for all stages of the production process – enabling valuable, high-purity raw materials for reuse in high-tech products.
Wire arc spraying
The right corrosion protection is the alpha and omega when it comes to durability and resistance of the material used. With our wire arc spraying solutions you benefit from a process characterized by high application rates and low energy consumption.
Dusseldorf - Roll shop managers of ArcelorMittal Europe have visited SMS group in Hilchenbach for a recurring convention in regard of X-Roll® Oil Bearing topics.
Dusseldorf - Each minimill will have a capacity of just over 600,000 short tons per year, including a full range or sizes and rebar grades in both stick and spooled form.
Dusseldorf - The new 4.3-meter mill is an important milestone on Baowu Iron & Steel Group’s path transforming Tisco into a global leader in the stainless steel industry.
Dusseldorf - With this investment, ElvalHalcor has taken another important step towards establishing an even more sustainable aluminum production and improving environmental protection.
Stockholm - SMS group will contribute its leading technological expertise in designing, supplying and commissioning plants with significantly lower CO2 emissions.
Dusseldorf - Centralized operator monitoring of the entire 460 millimeter tube plant using AI video analytics; only six operators are required to supervise the entire rolling line.
Dusseldorf - SMS and Paul Wurth to combine research on decarbonization and recycling; Luxembourg to become a global innovation center for metallurgy and hydrogen technology.
Camp Hill - The renewed contract adds the processing of SMS-2 slag, beginning July 2021, to support Dolvi till it develops a single large metal recovery plant (MRP) at a new location, which will double its capacity.
Düsseldorf – Western Energy Material Technologies Co., Ltd. (WEM) has placed an order with SMS group for the supply of a cold pilger mill type KPW 25 LC+.
Düsseldorf – SMS group supplied a state-of-the-art cold rolling mill for aluminium strips to the Chinese aluminium supplier BaoWu Aluminium Technology Ltd.,.
Düsseldorf – On October 1, 2020, Gerold Keune (Dipl.-Ing.) joined Hertwich Engineering GmbH, a company of SMS group, based in Braunau am Inn, Austria, as the new managing director and head of sales.
Düsseldorf –SULB SMS digital, a company of SMS group, cooperate in identifying and tapping potentials for energy savings in SULB’s integrated steelworks in Bahrain.
Düsseldorf – Dragon Steel, a subsidiary of China Steel Corporation, has granted SMS Concast, the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the modernization of their six-strand billet caster.
Düsseldorf – ANDRITZ Maerz and SMS group have entered into an agreement to transfer the global copper furnace business, including the related intellectual property and service activities, from ANDRITZ Maerz to SMS group.
Düsseldorf – For the project, SMS supplied a new four-high inline skin-pass mill, a new tension leveller, new fluid equipment and new electrical and automation systems.
Düsseldorf – Shandong Weiqiao Light Metal Co. Ltd., China, has placed an order with SMS group for the supply of a 28 MN direct-indirect extrusion and tube press.
Düsseldorf – U.S. steel producer Big River Steel has successfully commissioned the second construction stage of its steel plant in Osceola, Arkansas, supplied by SMS group.
07 Dec 2020
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Düsseldorf – SMS group has come out as one of the three winners in the category “groups & medium-sized businesses” of the competition “Economy in Transition”.
Düsseldorf – Hasçelik San. Ve Tic. A.Ş, based in Gebze, Kocaeli, and operator of the highest production capacities for bright steel bars in Turkey, has placed an order with SMS group.
Düsseldorf – With the acquisition of Italian companies OMAV S.p.A. and Hydromec S.R.L., SMS group is further expanding its product range in the extrusion plant and forging press sectors.
07 Oct 2020
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Düsseldorf – Geomet s.r.o., a Joint Venture between Australian mineral exploration and development company European Metals and Czech energy giant CEZ has appointed SMS group as the lead engineer for the minerals processing and lithium battery-grade chemicals production.
Düsseldorf – Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (NISCO) has commissioned the upgraded four-strand bloom caster at its Nanjing plant No.2 together with SMS Concast.
06 Aug 2020
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Duesseldorf – Wuhan Iron & Steel has granted SMS group the final acceptance after the successful modernization of finishing stands F4 and F7 in their High-Capacity Hot Strip Mill No. 2.
Düsseldorf – SMS group is award winner in the corporate competition “NRW - Wirtschaft im Wandel” (NRW – Economy on the Move). This makes SMS group rank among the outstanding eleven companies
05 Jul 2020
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Düsseldorf – Garner Aluminium Extrusions, also known as Garnalex, based in Denby, United Kingdom, has awarded SMS group the final acceptance certificate for the extrusion line it supplied.
Düsseldorf – Shougang Zhixin Qian’an Electromagnetic Material, China, has awarded an order to SMS group for the supply of two annealing and coating lines for electric steel strip.
27 May 2020
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Düsseldorf – Tata Steel India has awarded SMS group the order to supply a slab conditioning line (scarfing line) for its Kalinganagar works. Full-surface scarfing is a surface removal process used for eliminating surface and subsurface defects in slabs.
Düsseldorf – Nucor Corporation has awarded SMS group a follow-up order for the supply of reheat and heat-treatment facilities. The new equipment will be part of the new plate mill being built in Brandenburg, Kentucky.
10 Mar 2020
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Düsseldorf – ArcelorMittal Dofasco (AMD), Canada, has awarded SMS. the contract to supply a replacement 320-ton KOBM converter and gear drive for its steel making plant in Hamilton, ON, Canada. The converter at AMD is the largest basic oxygen converter in North America.
31 Jan 2020
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Düsseldorf – At the international trade fairs "Tube" and “wire”, taking place in Düsseldorf, SMS group is going to present new plant concepts and innovations that meet the future demands of the tube and wire industry.
Düsseldorf – Cromodora Wheels SPA has installed a chip recycling furnace for wheel production in Ghedi, Italy. The furnace, with a capacity of 10,000 tons per year, was successfully supplied and commissioned by Hertwich Engineering, a company of SMS group.
22 Jan 2020
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San Francisco - The AI application will help steel companies improve on-spec mechanical properties of advanced steel products to meet increasing consumer demands.
Düsseldorf – Taiwanese steel producer China Steel Corporation (CSC) has awarded SMS Mevac the order to revamp the oldest of the RH units at its No. 1 steel works in Kaoshiung. SMS Mevac will equip the RH unit with a new, four-stage steam jet vacuum pump.
09 Jan 2020
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Düsseldorf – Al Gharbia Pipe Company has successfully taken into operation its new LSAW (Longitudinal Submerged Arc Welded) pipe plant. The new LSAW large-diameter pipe production facility was built at the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), by a consortium of Larsen & Toubro Limited and SMS group.
