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Primetals Technologies to engineer continuous caster and secondary metallurgy facilities for MMKI

Primetals Technologies to engineer continuous caster and secondary metallurgy facilities for MMKI • Annual production capacity to increase to four million metric tons of slabs • Project includes ladle furnace, alloying station and dedusting system • Expanded product portfolio • Cross-section heat-pacing solution to coordinate steel production with casting operation • Reduction of dust content …

Modernized stainless steel continuous caster from Siemens goes on stream at Posco

• New technology packages improve slab quality and widen product range • Industrial production in fully automatic mode from day one Siemens Metals Technologies has modernized and put into operation a single-strand continuous caster at Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (Posco) in Pohang, Korea, for production of stainless steel slabs. SSC 2 caster …

Europe’s biggest blast furnace relit: “Schwelgern 2” producing iron again – Continuous caster also modernized – Economics minister Duin: “Positive signal for NRW”

The fire is lit, blast furnace No. 2 in Duisburg-Schwelgern is back in operation. For three months production had been halted to carry out necessary modernization work. Now the furnace hearth has been filled with wood and coke and relit, and iron production in Europe’s biggest blast furnace has been gradually ramped up. Continuous caster …

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe investing 90 million euros in modernization of continuous caster in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth: Modern cooling technology to improve slab quality

The current reline of blast furnace 2 in Duisburg-Schwelgern is being used as an opportunity to modernize a further key facility of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe: Work has started on revamping one of the continuous casters in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth. It is scheduled to go back into operation in just under eight weeks. The work is being carried …

Continuous caster from Siemens commences operation at Jindal Steel & Power

• Annual production capacity is 1.5 million metric tons of slabs • Continuous caster produces primary material for wide strip mill supplied by Siemens • Production focuses on sheet metal and tube grades At the Angul plant of the Indian steel producer Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSPL), a single-strand continuous casting machine from Siemens …

Siemens continuous caster produces world’s thickest stainless-steel slabs at Posco

• Production capacity 700,000 metric tons per annum • Continuous caster achieves slab thicknesses of up to 300 millimeters A single-strand continuous stainless-steel slab caster capable to cast the world’s thickest stainless steel slabs was brought into operation in July for Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (Posco) in Pohang, Korea. Siemens Metals Technologies built …

Siemens modernizes continuous caster at ArcelorMittal Bremen

• Rugged molds increase reliability and operational safety • Low-maintenance mold oscillator boosts availability • Technology packages improve product quality German steel producer ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH has awarded Siemens Metals Technologies an order to modernize its continuous slab casting plant. This involves equipping the machine head of the twin-strand casting plant with new molds, …

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe contracts SMS Siemag for revamp of continuous caster no. 1 in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth

Following the engineering order in March 2012, Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe has now contracted SMS Siemag, Germany, to provide the delivery for the revamp of their continuous caster no. 1 at the Duisburg-Beeckerwerth works, Germany. The revamp will be carried out in 2014 during a planned shutdown period. True to the motto ‘’Experience counts’’, ThyssenKrupp relies …