Skip to content
Management

Led by three principals,
backed by a European industrial group.

Phoenix Technologies is a Luxembourg company incorporated in October 2023 as a subsidiary of the Pirson Group. Every mandate is scoped, delivered and signed by one of the three principals.

Incorporated 2023 · Esch-Belval, Luxembourg A Pirson Group company
Leadership

Three principals. Decades of blast-furnace practice.

Chief Executive Officer

Nicolas Mousel

Sales · Project management · Plant & equipment

Electro-mechanical engineer (University of Liège, aerospace technologies and industrial management). Almost thirty years designing, selling and executing plant and equipment projects for the global iron and steel industry.

Chief Technology Officer

Nicolas Maggioli

BF cooling systems · Monitoring · Maintenance patents

Mechanical engineer (Arts & Métiers, Metz — MSc Georgia Institute of Technology). Twenty years designing blast-furnace ironmaking plants, with multiple patents in BF monitoring systems and maintenance methods.

Senior Expert

Fernand Didelon

Decarbonization strategy · BF process

Materials & Chemical Engineer (École des Mines de Nancy). Blast-furnace process engineer since 1991, former Senior Technical Expert at Paul Wurth / SMS group. Supports steel plants in performance optimization and decarbonization strategy.

The bench Senior engineers · On mandate worldwide

Bob Peters

Senior Sales · Project Manager
Commercial · PM

Commercial lead and project manager. Twenty years bridging plant, vendors and owner teams across BF–BOF mandates.

+

Emilie Zeiter

Project Manager
Owner's engineer

Owner's-engineer mandates end to end. Scope, schedule, vendors and interface management on relining programs.

+

Gérard Hoffmann

Senior Designer Engineer
Mech · Structural

Mechanical and structural design for BF plant, stoves, casthouse and gas-cleaning systems.

+

Laurent Pasinetti

E&IC Engineer
E&IC · HV · DCS

Electrical, instrumentation and control for BF retrofits — from HV distribution to DCS migration.

+

Damien Meyer

E&IC Engineer
Instr. · PLC

Instrumentation, PLC and automation — hot-metal handling, top-charging, stoves and gas cleaning.

+

Mondher Bouteraa

Process Engineer
Process · PCI · H₂

Ironmaking process: burden, PCI, natural-gas and hydrogen-ready injection, energy-balance modelling.

+

Valérie Martin

Administrative Assistant
Ops · Contracts

Back-office, contracts, travel and client coordination — the operational backbone of every mandate.

+
How we work

Four principles we don't negotiate on.

01

Senior engineers at the lead

Every mandate is scoped, delivered and signed by one of the principals. The engineer who quotes you is the one on the floor.

02

Backed by the Pirson Group

Phoenix is part of a European industrial-construction group in operation since the 1970s — specialist companies in steel, refractories, erection and heavy construction.

03

Floor time, not dashboards

We go where hot metal flows. Field audits, measurement, direct observation — then the model, then the recommendation.

04

Long horizons

A blast-furnace campaign runs fifteen years. Our advice and our equipment designs are built for that horizon.

The company

Incorporated in 2023. Based in Esch-Belval — on the ground where the Luxembourgish steel industry was built.

Phoenix Technologies S.A. is a Luxembourg company (RCS B280851), incorporated on 4 October 2023, registered at 9 Boulevard du Jazz, L-4370 Esch-Belval. Its mission is to design, supply and operate technologies that extend blast-furnace campaign life, optimize performance and reduce the carbon footprint of ironmaking.

Phoenix is part of the Pirson Group — an industrial-construction group in operation since the 1970s, headquartered in Luxembourg, with specialist companies active in steel, refractories, erection and heavy construction across Europe.

Every mandate is led by a principal. Every report is written by the person who will answer the phone when the first campaign runs hot.