Real Endless Strip Production: What the Future Holds

Target Audience

• Technology departments
• Strategic planning or controlling departments
• Management
• Operation decision makers
• Investment department
• Plant Managers
• Universities

Key Takeaways

• Ways of implementation, looking at various production routes
• New ESP achievements
• Special features for different product groups
• How to gain high profits by producing for direct application products
• Lowering CO₂ emissions, energy consumption and operation costs

Bernd Linzer

Technology Officer, Chief Metallurgist, Primetals Technologies

Bernd Linzer is the current Technology Officer and Chief Metallurgist, and former Vice President for Endless Strip Production at Primetals Technologies. With a technical background and PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Leoben, he has worked at Primetals Technologies since 2007. He has been a part of Arvedi ESP technology since the premier installation of the Arvedi ESP Masterplant at Cremona, Italy, in 2009. Prior to his work as the Vice President for Endless Strip Production, he led the R&D department and was responsible for continuous casting and rolling processes and metallurgical product development.

Thomas Lengauer

Vice President Continuous Casting, Primetals Technologies

Thomas Lengauer is the Vice President of Continuous Casting at Primetals Technologies. He completed his master’s in Technical Physics at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria in 2010. He started his career at Primetals Technologies in the Endless Strip Production department, where he was responsible for three endless strip production plant startups in China and the dimensioning of endless strip production projects worldwide.

In 2019, Thomas Lengauer began heading the technology department for endless strip production at Primetals Technologies.

Moderator – Andi Jungbauer

General Sales Manager – Endless Strip Production, Primetals Technologies

Andi Jungbauer completed his master’s in Electrical Engineering and Process Control at the University of Technology in Graz in 1998.

In the same year, he joined VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau (VAI) in Linz and began working in the automation department for continuous casting, where he worked as a project manager. In 2004, he joined the continuous casting department as a product manager for continuous casting. Since 2008, Andreas Jungbauer has been a General Sales Manager for endless strip production at Primetals Technologies.