[Ferro-Alloys.com] 

Thrilling new home-grown technology can win back South Africa’s lost ferroalloy renown

New Proudly South African smelting technology, which uses 70% less electricity, cuts costs, slashes carbon emissions and can process low-grade material, has all the attributes needed to win back the top ferroalloy production renown that South Africa enjoyed in the not so distant past.

The inventive new green, clean, economically competitive, locally patented smelting technology, which is tried, tested and proven, needs only 1.2 MW of power to produce a ton of ferrochrome compared with the conventional 4 MW of power needed to do so.

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) has been slogging away at developing SmeltDirect since 2012. ARM has managed to come up with a trailblazer that is not only 300% more efficient but also provides bottom-of-the-cost-curve benefit.

• [Editor:邢亚敏]