UCAR® Graphite Electrodes Come With A Big Advantage: World-Class Technical Service
GrafTech Helps You Increase Melt Shop Productivity and Reduce Costs. We demonstrate it to our customers every day.
GrafTech fully understands the electric furnace steelmaking process and applies that understanding in helping customers optimize their melting operations. Using the latest analytical technologies, GrafTech focuses on the steelmaker's ability to operate more efficiently and profitably.
Benefiting from more than a century of experience around the world, GrafTech has built a solid reputation for practical solutions. Our engineers and technicians work side-by-side with furnace operators making first hand observations, recommending improvements and recording results.
Bringing State-of-the-Art, Real-Time Analysis to your Shop
- Oxygen Usage
- kWh/Ton
- Electrode Consumption
- Furnace Regulation
- Optimum Power Profile
- Power-On Time
- Time Utilization
- Maximum Productivity
Our exclusive analytical programs, combined with our recognized expertise in analysis, encompass the total arc furnace environment. This thorough furnace monitoring capability, whether in-shop or remotely from our technical facilities, allows us to help our customers (1) optimize power input to their furnaces, (2) reduce process variation, and (3) increase productivity. This analytical ability enables GrafTech professionals to define and completely understand the operating parameters of the electric arc furnace.
Only from such a comprehensive assessment can practical solutions be developed.
Our proven problem solving methodology covers the broad spectrum of electric furnace steelmaking: from furnace design criteria to graphite electrode applications; from charge to liquid steel.
Bringing Valuable, Customized Training Programs to your People
- Global Steelmaking
- Benchmarking Steelmaking
- Technology-focused Seminars
- New Furnace Start-up Seminars
- Technology Leadership
- Electrode Handling
- Safety Programs
Just as we do in our manufacturing operations, GrafTech strives for continuous improvement in the steelmaker's operations. We apply our extensive expertise in Total Quality Management systems to all analytical efforts. Taken as a whole, our capabilities, experience and global presence enable you to learn state-of-the-art techniques from around the world.
Let us demonstrate our steelmaking expertise. For more information, be sure to look through our new Graphite Electrodes Brochure.
Put the GrafTech Technical Service Team to work for you now.