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Siemens Delivers EAF Equipment to NLMK's Kaluga Minimill
Sep. 22, 2011 - VAI Siemens has delivered a complete set of equipment for the EAF Shop at NLMK’s Kaluga Minimill, which is currently under construction. The electric-arc furnace, ladle furnace, and 8-strand continuous casting machine are currently being assembled at the plant.
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Timken Evaluates $225 Million Expansion at Faircrest
Aug. 25, 2011 - The Timken Co. is considering an investment of $225 million at its Canton, Ohio-based Faircrest Steel Plant that would increase capacity, expand product range, and strengthen competitiveness of Timken® alloy steel bars.
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NLMK Revamps Meltshop
Jun. 17, 2011 - NLMK has started the installation of main equipment for the revamped Continuous Casting Machine No.3 at its main production site in Lipetsk. The upgrade represents a 300,000 tonne/year increase in continuous casting capacity.
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Mechel Launches Modernized Steelmaking Complex at Otelu Rosu
Jun. 8, 2011 - Mechel OAO has launched a modernized steelmaking complex at its Romanian-based subsidiary Ductil Steel Otelu Rosu. The reconstructed complex includes a new electric arc furnace with the COSS system, an upgraded continuous billet caster, and a modern scrap metal preparation section.
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Siemens to Equip New Steel Mill for Qatar Steel
Apr. 6, 2011 - The Qatar Steel Company awarded a contract to Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for the supply of a new EAF, ladle furnace and billet caster for a new steel mill in Mesaieed, Qatar.
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Qatar Steel Plans to Expand Steelmaking Facility
Mar. 11, 2011 - Qatar Steel has initiated a new project to increase the company’s overall production, including the addition of a new 110-tonne EAF, 110-tonne ladle furnace, and 6-strand high speed billet caster.
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ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA to Begins Construction of EAF Meltshop
Dec. 13, 2010 - ThyssenKrupp AG Executive Board Chairman Dr. Ekkehard Schulz announces that construction is set to begin on a new stainless slab meltshop for ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA. The shop will comprise a 160-ton EAF, 180-ton AOD converter, and 72-inch continuous slab caster.
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Dillinger Hüttenwerke Casts World’s Thickest Slabs after SMS Siemag Upgrade
Nov. 29, 2010 - Dillinger Hüttenwerke re-commissions its Continuous Caster No. 5 following a revamp and 450-mm enlargement in thickness by SMS Siemag. The vertical-type continuous caster, which was originally supplied by SMS Siemag in 1998, now produces the world's thickest slabs, with sizes from 230 to 450 mm gage and 1400 to 2200 mm width.
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Siemens Modernizes Qatar Steelworks
Sep. 29, 2010 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has won an order to modernize Qatar Steel Co.'s steelworks in Mesaieed, Qatar, with the goal of expanding billet production capacity by up to 30% while reducing specific consumption values and waste gas emissions.
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Fuxin Special Steel Orders Stainless Steel Plant from SMS Siemag
Sep. 22, 2010 - Fuxin Special Steel Co. Ltd. has placed an order with SMS Siemag for the planning and supply of a steelworks for the production of stainless steel slabs. It will reportedly be the first stainless steel plant in the world to utilize the waste heat from the AOD converter and the electric arc furnace.
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New Electric Steelmaking Complex Commissioned at Izhstal OAO
Sep. 8, 2010 - Mechel OAO announced that the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin commissioned a new electric steelmaking complex at Izhstal OAO. The new facility comprises an electric arc furnace with a capacity of 40 tonnes and a continuous slab caster.
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Siemens Slab Caster Starts Up at Qinhuangdao Shouqin
Aug. 5, 2010 - A slab caster capable of casting slabs in thicknesses up to 400 mm was recently started up at the steelworks of the Qinhuangdao Shouqin Metal Material Co., Ltd. in China. Siemens VAI received the order in June 2008 for a straight-mold, vertical-bending-type slab caster capable of casting up to 1.1 million tonnes of steel per year.
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Mechel Commissions New Production Complex
Jul. 26, 2010 - Mechel OAO announced that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pushed the start button of a high-quality and stainless steel production complex in the arc-furnace melting shop #6 of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant.
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SMS Siemag Commissions 4th Slab Caster at Salzgitter Flachstahl
Jul. 9, 2010 - SMS Siemag has successfully commissioned the fourth XCast continuous slab caster for Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. The single-strand circular-arc design caster produces slabs in widths ranging from 1100 to 2600 mm and in thicknesses of 250 and 350 mm.
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Siemens to Modernize Slab Steel Works in Indonesia
Jun. 22, 2010 - Siemens has received an order from PT Krakatau Steel of Cilegon, Indonesia, to completely modernize its slab steel works no. 1. The modernized works is scheduled to come into production in the summer of 2012.
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ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih, Siemens Begin Construction of CCM
Jun. 3, 2010 - ArcelorMittal, ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih, and Siemens VAI jointly announced that construction of the first Continuous Casting Machine (CCM) at the ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih has begun. Capacity of the new CCM will be over 1.2 million tonnes of steel per year; start-up is targeted for September 2011.
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Arvedi Grants Acceptance to Siemens for Endless Strip Line
May 12, 2010 - Acciaieria Arvedi SpA has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate to Siemens VAI for its new Arvedi ESP line in Cremona, which has successfully cast 80-mm thin strands at speeds in excess of six meters per minute and endlessly rolled hot strip down to a thickness of 0.8 mm.
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SMS Meer, SMS Concast to Supply Steelworks Complex in Bahrain
May 6, 2010 - United Steel Co. placed an order with SMS Meer and SMS Concast for the design and supply of a turnkey minimill plant for beams and sections in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The project, to be carried out with Samsung Engineering, is scheduled for completion by 2012.
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AK Steel Employees Set World Casting Record
May 6, 2010 - AK Steel employees at Middletown have set a world record for consecutive heats of carbon steel continuously cast on either a single- or double-strand caster. Crews cast 474,131 tons of carbon steel slabs in 2156 consecutive heats over a 59-day sequence.
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Danieli Meltshop Installed at Votorantim Group
Mar. 23, 2010 - The new Danieli steel meltshop installed at the Votorantim Group steel works in Resende, Brazil, to produce 1 million tonnes per year of billets has been operating successfully since October 2009.
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Handan Iron & Steel Orders Combi-caster from Siemens
Mar. 16, 2010 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will supply a five-strand combi-caster to Handan Steel Works in China. The new plant will be capable of producing a total of 1.45 million tonnes of beam blanks and blooms per year.
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Danieli to Supply Equipment to Jianlong Group, Stefana Montirone
Mar. 12, 2010 - Jianlong Group Co., Ltd. has contracted Danieli CentroMet / Danieli Changshu Metallurgical Equipment and Service Co., Ltd. to supply a new conticaster for large-size rounds to be installed in its Chengde steel plant. Stefana Spa has also contracted Danieli for the supply of a FastCast CCM for production of billets, to be installed in its Montirone steelworks.
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Danieli Carries Out Ezz Flat Steel Minimill Expansion
Mar. 1, 2010 - Danieli is carrying out a major expansion of the Ezz Flat Steel flat products minimill located in the Ain Sukhna Industrial Area in Egypt, with the aim of enlarging the product range to include concrete reinforcement steel bars.
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Danieli Bloom Casters in Operation at Acciaierie Venete, RUE BMZ
Feb. 17, 2010 - A new jumbo-size conticaster for large-size blooms from Danieli has operated successfully since November 2009 at Acciaierie Venete, an Italian SBQ producer. Danieli Centro Met also carried out reconstruction and upgrading of the four-strand No. 3 bloom caster at the No. 2 steel melting shop of Byelorussian Steel Works (RUE BMZ) of Zhlobin, Belarus.
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Danieli Caster in Operation at Usha Martin
Feb. 15, 2010 - A new twin-strand, 12-m-radius Danieli FastCast™ special steel bloom conticaster operates at Usha Martin’s new meltshop in Adityapur (Jamshedpur) in the State of Jharkand. Startup took place in September 2009.
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Siemens to Upgrade Caster Capacity at Nizhny Tagil
Jan. 15, 2010 - Nizhny Tagil Iron & Steel Works contracts Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to increase the casting capability of its existing two-strand beam-blank/bloom combi-caster, CCM3, by an additional 300,000 tonnes/year.
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OJSC MMK Commissions Continuous Slab Casting Machine No. 6
Jan. 4, 2010 - OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has commissioned Continuous Slab Casting Machine No. 6 in the oxygen-converter shop, marking a successive stage of Plate Mill 5000 complex development in order to produce plates for wide-diameter pipe production.
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Chinese Copper-Rod Producer Places Order with SMS Meer
Dec. 10, 2009 - Shandong Jinsheng has placed an order with SMS Meer for the supply of a complete continuous casting and rolling plant. The CONTIROD plant is the second of its kind supplied to Shandong Jinsheng, which has been using the technology since 2001.
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SAIL Inaugurates New Slab Caster Complex at Bhilai
Jul. 15, 2009 - SAIL celebrates the dedication of a new 0.8-million tonne slab caster complex in Bhilai Steel Plant’s SMS-II, and lays the foundation stone for a new 4-million tonne per year SMS-III complex, also at Bhilai Steel Plant.
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MMK Renews Commitment to Modernization Effort
Apr. 8, 2009 - Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works renews its commitment to ongoing modernization efforts, which include a rolling mill upgrade as well as installation of a new slab caster and new secondary steel treatment unit.
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Siemens to Supply Minimill to Euro Finance
Jul. 17, 2008 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will provide a new 1.8 million tonnes per year minimill facility for Ukrainian-based scrap trader Euro Finance, complete with EAF, ladle furnace, billet caster, long-product rolling mill, and auxiliary facilities.
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Nucor Breaks Strip-Casting Record with Castrip Process
Jan. 16, 2008 - Nucor sets a new record for sequence casting -- 24 ladles of steel, cast continuously, over a 38-hour period -- at the world's first commercial Castrip-based strip-casting facility for plain-carbon steel sheet.
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Danieli to Supply Three FastCast Casters to Vizag Steel
Dec. 4, 2007 - Rashtriya Ispat Nigam contracts Danieli to supply three new FastCast™ Casters to produce up to 2.4 million tonnes/year of square billets and 0.33 million tonnse/year of round sections at their Visakhapatnam Steel Plant integrated steel plant in India.
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Concast, SMS Meer to Provide Minimill for South Steel
Dec. 4, 2007 - South Steel-Pan Kingdom Invest. Co., Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, contracts Concast and SMS Meer to plan, engineer, and supply plant and equipment for a new minimill, including a flexible-charge EAF, continuous billet caster, and automated rebar rolling mill.
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CMC Commissions CCR Cut-to-Weight System
Nov. 13, 2007 - CMC commissions a billet weighing and cut-to-weight system installed by CCR Technologies on the continuous caster at its South Carolina facility.
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Danieli to Construct New Flat Products Complex for MMK-Atakas
Oct. 22, 2007 - Danieli will be the sole supplier of technological equipment for a new flat products complex MMK-Atakaş is planning for Iskenderun, Turkey, including EAF-based meltshop and caster, high-capacity hot rolling mill, continuous pickling line, cold rolling mill, hot dip galvanizing, and coil coating facilities.
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Danieli to Rebuild Mechel Steelmaking Plant and Slab Caster
Sep. 24, 2007 - Danieli will provide a major revamp of the single-strand slab caster at Mechel Group’s Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, including complete reconstruction of the existing caster, as well as the installation of a ladle furnace, vacuum degasser, and new material handling system.
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SMS Demag Starts up Two New Casters at Masteel
Aug. 3, 2007 - SMS Demag AG recently started up two twin-strand continuous slab casters designed for joint production of 5.7 million tonnes of flat products per year at Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Masteel), China.
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voestalpine Stahl and Siemens Set World Casting Record
Jul. 24, 2007 - voestalpine Stahl casts 355-mm thick and 1600-mm wide slabs on a caster recently upgraded by Siemens Metals Technologies, earning the distinction of producing the thickest slab ever cast on a bow-type caster with straight mold.
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Danieli to Supply Slab Casting Plant for Chengde
Jun. 27, 2007 - Chengde Xinxin Vanadium and Titanium has awarded an order to Danieli Davy Distington for a new 3.5-million tonne/year slab casting plant this will incorporate two twin-strand machines.
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Danieli to Upgrade DMKD Bloom Caster
Jun. 25, 2007 - OJSK Dneprovsky Iron & Steel Integrated Works has awarded a contract to Danieli to upgrade its 6-strand, 14-meter radius continuous casting machine to enable production of large-size round blooms.
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Danieli to Provide Slab Casting Complex for Benxi
Jun. 22, 2007 - Benxi Iron & Steel awards an order to Danieli Davy Distington for the installation of a new slab casting production plant, including two slab casters and all related equipment and technology.
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SMS Demag to Supply Caster for Jindal South West
Feb. 1, 2007 - Jindal South West Steel Ltd. (JSW) has awarded SMS Demag an order for the supply of a continuous caster for the company’s Toranagallu, India, location.
For the contract, SMS Demag wil
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SMS Demag to Supply CSP Plant for Wisco
Feb. 1, 2007 - China's Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Wisco) has awarded a contract to SMS Demag, Germany, to design and construct a new twin-strand CSP® (Compact Strip Prod
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China Steel Orders Fifth Caster from SMS Demag
Feb. 1, 2007 - China Steel Corp. (CSC), Taiwan, has commissioned SMS Demag, Germany, as the leader of an international consortium, with the supply of a twin-strand continuous slab caster.
The new facilit
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Interpipe and Danieli Partner to Build EAF Steel Mill
Feb. 1, 2007 - Leading steel company INTERPIPE signed a major new contract with Danieli, Italy, to build a state-of-the-art electric steelmaking facility. When completed, it will be the largest facility of its ki
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Liuzhou Commissions SMS Demag Slab Caster
Jan. 1, 2007 - Liuzhou Iron & Steel Corp., China, has successfully commissioned a single-strand continuous slab caster supplied by SMS Demag AG, Germany.
With an annual production capacity of 1.2 mill
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TMK Group Starts up First of Two SMS Demag Casters
Jan. 1, 2007 - Taganrog Metallurgical Works (Tagmet), Russia, recently celebrated its first cast on the five-strand continuous bloom caster supplied by SMS Demag AG, Germany.
The new caster at the Taganro
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