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SMS Siemag Commissions X-Melt® Converter at Dragon Steel Meltshop
Feb. 26, 2010 In January 2010, SMS Siemag of Germany successfully commissioned the first of two new carbon-steel converters at the Taichung works of Dragon Steel Corp. in Taiwan. The second converter is scheduled to be commissioned this spring.
With both converters, the meltshop is rated for an annual production of 2.2 million tonnes.
The 230-tonne converter is equipped with a lamella suspension system, bottom stirring equipment, and robot-operated sub-lance. In addition to the two converters, SMS Siemag supplied the complete bin system for ferroalloys, the gas cleaning plant with primary dedusting unit, as well as the gas recovery system, all vehicles, ladles, and slag pots.
Also included in SMS Siemag's package are the basic engineering for the concrete structure and the basic and detail engineering plus supply of the structural steelwork.
An RH-TOP unit from SMS Mevac, Essen, was also successfully commissioned. This facility is used especially for the treatment of special steel grades for the automotive industry and for transformer steels.
Seventy percent of the shares in Dragon Steel Corp. are held by China Steel, Taiwan's largest steelmaker.
SMS Siemag AG is a company of the SMS group, which is, under the roof of the holding SMS GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It consists of two business areas: SMS Siemag and SMS Meer. In 2008, some 8900 employees worldwide generated a turnover of more than EUR 3.6 billion.