Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST), Brazil, has selected SMS Demag, Germany, to extend the LD steel plant at CST’s works in Vitória. The order is valued at 40 million Euros.

The SMS scope of supply comprises a 300-tonne converter vessel with a lamella suspension type vessel-to-ring lock system; an oxygen blowing-lance system; sublance system for temperature and analyses; and the electrical and automation systems.

Converter III will enable the annual production to be increased from 5.2 to 7.5 million tonnes. The two converters supplied by SMS Demag in 1999 will continue to produce while the construction and erection work is taking place.

Commissioning is scheduled for May 2006.

Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST), Brazil, produces various grades of steel, including grades for automotive and shipbuilding applications.

SMS Demag AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. The SMS group is internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering relating to the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals and plastics. The group is divided into the Business Areas of Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology, Tube, Long Product and Forging Technology and Plastics Technology. In the year 2003 around 9500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of around EUR 2.20 billion.