Projects I+D+I: ZUHOTEK

Name:

ZUHOTEK

Record:

ZL-2025/00019

Co-workers:

TRG as a leading company; Tecnalia and Azterlan as RVCTI centres

Project objective:

Develop and validate a new comprehensive process for manufacturing defect-free TP347H stainless steel tubes, based on direct continuous casting and hot rolling, eliminating conventional intermediate stages of forging or rolling. 

Benefit or added value for TRG:

Manufacture stainless steel tubes more efficiently and sustainably, accessing products with higher added value and thus improving competitiveness.

Application:

- Boilers and superheaters - Combined cycle plants - Petrochemical industry and refineries - Nuclear industry - Other energy sectors such as biomass and high-efficiency power stations

Funded by:

Basque Government within the competitive Hazitek framework

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