Feralpi Siderurgia S.p.A is the leader company of the homonymous Feralpi Group, established in 1968 in Lonato del Garda, in the province of Brescia. Feralpi Group is one of major European manufacturers of reinforcing steel in bars and coils, wire rod, electro welded meshand other derivates with a production capacity of about 2,2Mt/year and about 1500 employees. It also processes scrap, delivered by road or rail, by means of a shear and a shredder. Feralpi Siderurgica plant is equipped with one EAF, one LF, one continuos casting machine and two rolling mills for bars and wire rods.

Specific Activities in the project:

• Realization of Alternative Heating Technology
• Pilot Tests
• Technoeconmic evaluations
• Support in D&C&E strategy

We are Sidenor, leaders in the production of special long steels, as well as an important supplier of gauging products in the European market.
We have production centres in the Basque Country, Cantabria and Catalonia, and we have sales offices in Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. We have highly specialised facilities capable of providing suitable solutions to all industrial sectors that require steels with high service and quality requirements.
Our steel production capacity of close to 900,000 tonnes is mainly intended for the manufacture of parts and components for the automotive, energy, machinery and capital goods, shipbuilding and civil construction, defence, railway, mining and petrochemical sectors, among others. In all these sectors, Sidenor's special steel is used for the manufacture of products of high responsibility.
We have a human team of close to 1,800 people, to whom we are strongly committed. We strive to provide them with the best possible place to work and to develop their professional careers while continuously looking after their safety, this being a priority aspect for the company.

Innovation for continued growth
Every year we invest heavily in innovation, one of the cornerstones of our business. Our R&D centre, one of the largest in the European steel sector, allows us to develop new technologies and products that help us meet the needs of our customers.
Along these lines, we are transforming Sidenor to become a benchmark in Industry 4.0, improving and digitalising our production processes to make them more efficient, safer and of higher quality, which allows us to be increasingly competitive.

In a sustainable way
We manage all our activities in accordance with the principles of circular economy, with the aim of minimising the resources used and reducing our emissions.
We continually seek intelligent alternatives for the reduction, reuse and recovery of waste generated during steel production. This philosophy allows us to maintain a socially responsible behaviour towards investors, suppliers, customers, society and the communities in which we carry out our activities.
At Sidenor we are building, in collaboration with all the agents in our value chain, a path aimed at achieving business excellence in order to continue growing in a sustainable way and to ensure our future. We are transforming Sidenor to become a benchmark in Industry 4.0, improving our processes to make them more efficient, safer and of higher quality.

Our ESG commitment
At Sidenor we not only care about what we do, but also about how we do it. For years, sustainability has been integrated into the entire value chain.
To achieve this, we support projects and initiatives that generate more responsible practices and bring value to society.
At Sidenor, we work on sustainability from several areas of action: people, the environment, society, as well as business ethics and transparency.

Specific Activities in the project:

• Preliminary Process Assessment
• Innovative Solutions Virtual Simualtion
• Supoort in LCA/LCC and SLCA analysus
• Techno-econmic evaluations
• Support in D&C&E strategy

Tekniker (TEK) is a private non-profit RTO specialised Advanced Manufacturing, Surface Engineering, Product Engineering and ICTs for manufacturing. Our mission is focused on bringing about growth and wellbeing for society at large through R&D&I actions and by furthering the competitiveness of industry in a sustainable manner.

The knowledge acquired in diverse areas of research are grouped together in technological solutions, adding value to a transverse offering to provide an extensive and complete package: Mechatronic systems, Industrial maintenance, Automation and industrial robotics, Inspection and measuring, Multifunctional surfaces, Sensor devices, and Innovation and competitive intelligence. TEK brings together its skills and technologies and focuses them on the market, applying them to diverse and key industrial sectors within the productive manufacturing industries of the country: Aeronautics and space, Agrifood, Automotive, Renewable energy, The science industry, Infrastructures, Machine tools and manufacturing, Health, and Green hydrogen.

Tekniker was founded in 1981 and during the last 34 years has participated in 287 EU Projects, leading 23% of them. It has a head count of 270 staff members and a turnover of more than 25 million € in 2022. TEK is member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), encompassing 3500 researchers and created through a collaboration agreement between a total of 17 technology centres and cooperative research centres, the Basque Government, the Provincial Councils of Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and Grupo SPRI.

RESEARCH AREAS LINKED TO ModHEATech:

SURFACE ENGINEERING: Improving material properties to incorporate more functionalities. Materials that interact with each other and the environment through the surface that do not only allow us to create new products, but also extend component life cycles to develop and implement new surface solutions at an industrial scale.

ICT FOR PRODUCTION: Advances in the fields of ICTs, control, automation and electronics to make products “smart” when interacting with sensors, actuators, components, machines, robots and other types of systems.

Main Activities in the project:

• LCA/LCC and SLCA analysis for introduction of Induction Furnace and Hydrogen Burner in SiDENOR rolling mills
• Definition of novel maintenance strategy and accelerated tests for innovative solution
• Support in D&C&E strategy