Continuous Casters Switched On at New Baosteel Facility
12/02/2015 - Two new continuous slab casters have been put into service at Baosteel’s Zhanjiang works in southern China, according to the supplier.
The supplier, Primetals Technologies, said the two-strand casters were brought on-line in September. They have a combined annual capacity of 5 million metric tons and feed a 2,250-millimeter hot rolling mill.
Primetals said the bow-type casters have a straight mold with a machine radius of 9.5 meters and a metallurgical length of 37 meters. They produce slabs in widths of up to 2,150 millimeters and a thickness of 230 millimeters. The casting speed can be varied between 0.7 and 1.95 meters per minute.
They have straight SmartMold cassette-type molds, DynaFlex mold oscillators, and DynaWidth for automatic adjustment of the slab width.
“DynaGap Soft Reduction ensures that the slabs have a consistently high interior quality. The strand guide is equipped with Smart Segments. The combination of the Dynacs 3D cooling model with internally cooled I-Star rollers offers maximum flexibility in the secondary cooling,” Primetals said in a statement.
The Zhanjiang works is a new facility -- Baosteel lit the No. 1 blast furnace in September. A second blast furnace is to come on-line in 2016. The facility is expected to be capable of making 8.75 million metric tons.
Primetals said the bow-type casters have a straight mold with a machine radius of 9.5 meters and a metallurgical length of 37 meters. They produce slabs in widths of up to 2,150 millimeters and a thickness of 230 millimeters. The casting speed can be varied between 0.7 and 1.95 meters per minute.
They have straight SmartMold cassette-type molds, DynaFlex mold oscillators, and DynaWidth for automatic adjustment of the slab width.
“DynaGap Soft Reduction ensures that the slabs have a consistently high interior quality. The strand guide is equipped with Smart Segments. The combination of the Dynacs 3D cooling model with internally cooled I-Star rollers offers maximum flexibility in the secondary cooling,” Primetals said in a statement.
The Zhanjiang works is a new facility -- Baosteel lit the No. 1 blast furnace in September. A second blast furnace is to come on-line in 2016. The facility is expected to be capable of making 8.75 million metric tons.
