Rotelec | Milestones

Milestones

Milestones: Step by step, the events that have marked our story.
Since 1977, a timeline of growth open to exploration.

The events that have changed our history, in leaps and bounds.

1973

The world’s first industrial application of strand electromagnetic stirring on a continuous casting machine: the rotative strand stirrer for SAFE in Hagondange, France.

1977

The world’s first industrial application of mould electromagnetic stirring, on Arbed’s continuous caster for billets, blooms and rounds in Eschweiler, Germany.

1977

Rotelec is born from the merger of Irsid, CEM, Arbed and Usinor.

1977

We patent the Magnetogyr© Process, our mould stirring technology for billets and blooms.

1979

The world’s first application of In-Roll EMS for Usinor, in Dunkerque, France.

1981/83

The world’s first industrial application of M+F EMS on KOBE’s bloom caster and YODOGAWA’s billet caster in Japan.

1987

A new step forward: induction heating of steel transfer bars at the entry of hot strip mill finishing stands.

1987

A true innovation: we develop and patent a C-type inductor with automatic gap adjustment.

1989

The world’s first industrial application of C-type edge heaters on hot strip mills for SOLLAC in Fos sur Mer, France and NKK Keihin in Japan.

1991

Danieli Group, a global leader in turnkey steel plant construction, selects us as a strategic partner.

2002

Our pioneering research leads to the innovative MULTIMODE EMS technology.

2013

The world’s first industrial application of IH+EMS on the mould of a POSCO LICC continuous caster in South Korea.

2019

The world’s first industrial application of MM-EMB on TSC of HBIS TISCO in China.

2024

The world’s first industrial production of MM-EMB+S at NUCOR STEEL in West Virginia.