GSM Tanzania orders reheating furnace for new long-product complex

Tanzanian steelmaker GSM Tanzania has selected Danieli Centro Combustion India to supply a reheating furnace for its new bar and wire rod rolling mill complex at the Kilimanjaro Industrial Park.

The contract covers a 50-ton-per-hour pusher-type reheating furnace designed to heat billets before rolling. The furnace will be equipped with next-generation burners and an efficient combustion system aimed at reducing fuel consumption, scale formation and pollutant emissions.

The new furnace will support GSM Tanzania's 300,000-tons-per-year rebar and wire rod mill, for which the company previously awarded Danieli a supply contract. The mill will produce rebar and wire rod for the East African construction and infrastructure sectors.

Danieli will also supply automation systems for the reheating furnace to support process control and improve operational reliability and product quality.

Commissioning of the new reheating furnace is scheduled by the end of 2027.

GSM Tanzania Limited, part of the GSM Group of Companies, operates across infrastructure development, manufacturing, wholesale and industrial investments.