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Mechel Launches Bloom Caster at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant
12/20/2011 - Mechel OAO announced the launch of the universal rolling mill’s first line, the blooming concaster #5, at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen converter shop. The new caster has an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes.
Mechel OAO announced the launch of the universal rolling mill’s first line, the blooming concaster #5, at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen converter shop.
The new caster, with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes, is due to supply the universal rolling mill with top-quality continuously cast billets. The concaster can produce 200 x 200-mm and 300 x 360-mm billets from various types of steel, including carbon, structural, and alloyed steels.
The concaster #5 is part of a complex that produces rail steel and rail billets. The complex also includes a two-position ladle furnace #4 with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes and a two-chamber vacuum degasser with an annual capacity of 650,000 tonnes. The out-of-furnace steel processing equipment is due to be commissioned by the end of December 2011. In addition, the complex’s facilities are equipped with a modern circuit water-supply cycle and dust-gas filtering systems.
The equipment was supplied by the Italian-based company Danieli.
“Commissioning the concaster’s facilities ahead of the universal mill’s launch gives us time not only to perfect the technology of producing rail metal and billets, but also to process steel into rails thanks to our cooperation with other producers. These steps aim to prepare us for the main complex’s launch and to speed up Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s mastering of a new technology,” said Mechel-Steel Management Co.’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrey Deineko.
