ANNUAL REPORT ARCELOR 2003 - paperJam

Other ActivitiesThe “Other Activities” sector comprises support activitiesand several industrial companies, primarily Paul Wurth,Circuit Foil and IEE.Paul WurthThe Paul Wurth company is an international player inthe field of plant and equipment engineering for the steeland non-ferrous metals industries. The company is alsoactive in managing large civil and industrial projects in theconstruction sector and has for several years beendeveloping new technologies for the protection of theenvironment in industry.Based in Luxembourg, Paul Wurth has subsidiariesand branches in Belgium, Germany, Spain, the CzechRepublic and Russia, but also in Asia (India, China,Korea, Taiwan), in Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Mexico)and North America (United States and Canada) as wellas South Africa, plus a network of licensees and agents.As at January 1, 2004, Paul Wurth employed 765 people,220 of whom in its international facilities.In the blast furnace segment, Paul Wurth benefited fromthe sustained growth of investments in the steel industryin China, a country that has become the leading marketfor the Paul Wurth group with 30% of all new orders. Acompany producing cooling systems for blast furnaceswas established in Luoyang in conjunction with a localcopper producer.Paul Wurth also established itself in the Russian marketwith two major orders for the relining of blast furnacesand with the formation of an engineering companyin Kovrov with a local minority partner.TMT Tapping Measuring Technology, a companyspecialising in taphole and measurement probetechnologies, formed in partnership with the Germancompany Dango & Dienenthal Maschinenbau, postedan excellent first year of activity, taking in substantialnew orders.In the field of steelshops and continuous casting,Paul Wurth successfully commissioned its oscillatingmould process for an American customer, while inthe non-ferrous metals segment the group is working onan order for a hydrometallurgy application involving ahandling system for copper refining electrodes.In the area of civil engineering project control and management,Paul Wurth is participating in the coordination ofthe new building projects for the European CommunityCourts of Justice and the European Investment Bank.In the field of research and development, Paul Wurthworked to develop the first industrial application of thePRIMUS ® technology to recycle the dust from electricfurnaces. Studies and tests relating to other applicationsof the PRIMUS ® process, such as the recycling of wasteproducts in integrated steel plants or hot metal productionfrom iron ore will be conducted in 2004.60ANNUAL REPORT ARCELOR 2003