MaserCata updates

News & Projects

Company news, technology milestones and project updates.

16 May 2026

Designing a 200-ton SPAF furnace

In 2026, we will begin designing a 200-ton SPAF furnace
. It will feature many revolutionary patented modifications compared to standard EAF furnaces. It is a true “green hybrid,” capable of direct melting of any material with CO2 emissions of nearly 0%.
Masercata Oy’s revolutionary SPAF furnace requires more than half as much electricity per ton produced as hydrogen-based green steel production does. Both have equally low CO2 emissions. The total investment cost (for a completed plant) is many times lower than that of a hydrogen-based iron/steel smelting plant.
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14 May 2026

New Materials, New Markets: Super Cast Iron (SCI©)

SPAF also enables production of Super Cast Iron (SCI©)
- an entirely new class of material combining the best properties of iron and steel in a single metal. SCI© offers superior strength, hardness, and resistance to abrasion, heat, and corrosion, and can be produced at low cost directly from mining waste. This opens significant new revenue opportunities for the acquirer.
Our SPAF furnace's Super Cast Iron® is a completely new metal on the market
and very inexpensive to manufacture compared to Fe-Cr castings, but our SCI® withstands heavy wear for much longer. Our SPAF furnace can produce super cast iron with an HRC of 50–60, an HBW of over 600, and a tensile strength of 2000 MPa at a very low cost, from red mud or raw ore.
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13 May 2026

Titanium & Silicon Extraction — MasterCata SPAF

Operating at temperatures exceeding 3000°C
via its water-cooled arc furnace technology, the MasterCata SPAF is capable of processing titanium-bearing mineral sands — primarily ilmenite (FeTiO₃) — found on virtually every continent. At these extreme temperatures, the furnace smelts the sand and reduces the titanium oxide content, producing a high-grade titanium-rich slag that serves as a direct precursor to metallic titanium or high-purity TiO₂ — bypassing the energy-intensive and costly multi-step Kroll (titanium sponge) production process. This represents a decisive advantage in premium material markets.
Silicon, naturally present as silica (SiO₂) in the sand feedstock, is volatilised and separated during the same high-temperature smelting process. It can be captured from the furnace off-gas stream and recovered as amorphous silica or further refined into metallurgical-grade silicon — turning what would otherwise be a process waste into an additional high-value co-product.
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10 May 2026

Patents

Masercata Oy's SPAF furnace EU and US patents have now been approved
. We are still waitng for patent approval from Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia och South East Asia. For more information about the technology rights and patents for this furnace technology, please contact us.
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April 21, 2026, India

Award 21 april 2026

Masercata Oy’s SPAF furnace participated in a resource efficiency and circular economy competition
in India and achieved first place as Crown Prince in the Technology Revolutionaries series, and won the “Technology Innovators” category. Masercata Oy’s Indian partner, Proman Infra, received the award in Delhi on April 21, 2026. The competition was international in scope and attracted a large number of major corporations as well.
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April 8–10, 2026, India

Observers from IIT Madras

April 8–10, 2026 Scientists from IIT Madras observed melting operations.
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April 2026, India

From waste to supercast iron

April 8, 2026 In India
, metal-containing mining waste was melted down using Masercata’s superplasma furnace and used to produce supercast iron, from which extremely hard, wear-resistant components were cast, including the jaws of a rock crusher, and train wheels and more. In other words, truly green casting production.
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December 2025, India

Event

Event in India, December 2025
. The technology rights and patents for this furnace technology are owned by MaserCata Oy/Ltd, Finland. Please see short video and images below:
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November 2025, India

Breaking News!

Here is a recent video of direct smelting of raw ore using our special plasma arc furnace (SPAF furnace) in India.
This is not even ore concentrate, but ground raw ore; ore concentrate melts even better (faster). This was the first direct smelting of iron ore with an electric arc furnace in the world, and there were no problems! We get exactly what we want, different types of cast iron, low-carbon steel, etc., super cast iron, etc. No additional processing is required. This revolutionizes the entire global metal industry (at least the blast furnace industry). CO2 emissions are only 5% compared to blast furnaces (practically emission-free). It uses half as much electricity as blast furnace technology.
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Information

Meeting with the president

MaserCata Oy/Ltd CEO Matti Hurtta visited the Presidential Palace on November 13, 2025, to meet with Alexander Stubb, President of the Republic of Finland. Photos for download or press
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Pilot Project India

MaserCata Oy/Ltd delivered and installed a new pilot furnace in India in August 2025.
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Demo & Test

Demonstrations and Testing Event

Our pilot furnace will undergo a
demonstration and testing run in Bangalore, India, in May 2025
. You are invited to witness the innovation firsthand! Tests will be supervised and certified by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India’s premier technical institute.

Test Lab

Show Case

Show casing the test lab furnace to a client autumn 2023.

Test Lab

Test Labratory in Finland

Our team of highly skilled & experienced developers, works to improve the plasma arc furnace industry since 2018.