German Mill Puts New Billet Caster Into Service
02/21/2020 - Germany’s Saarstahl AG has successfully commissioned a new five-strand billet caster, according to the machine’s builder, SMS group.
In a statement, SMS group said the caster, designated as the S1 unit, has a nameplate capacity of 850,000 metric tons and is equipped with CONVEX molds, hydraulic mold oscillators, mold and strand electromagnetic stirrers, and mechanical soft reduction.
“The S1 casting machine at Saarstahl is the first caster in the world designed with mechanical soft reduction (MSR) technology for a billet cross section of 180 millimeters square. It produces billets in a wide range of steel grades, including bearing steel, spring steel, cold-heading and free-cutting steels,” SMS group said.
