SMS Demag to Provide 2nd X-Melt LF for Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa
04/04/2008 - SMS Demag will supply an X-Melt ladle furnace and automation package for Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, as well as a complete X-Melt meltshop for A. Finkl & Sons.
Nucor Steel has ordered an X-Melt ladle furnace and automation package from SMS Demag, USA, a company of the SMS group, Germany.
The new unit will be installed in Nucor’s in Tuscaloosa, Ala., facility. It will have a single treatment position to process 150-ton heats from the meltshop’s existing twin-shell DC electric arc furnace.
As part of the project, SMS Demag will also upgrade the Level 1, Level 1.5, and Level 2 systems for the existing ladle furnace, which was also installed by SMS Demag.
SMS Demag USA also announced that it will install a complete X-Melt meltshop for A. Finkl & Sons, a forging company located in Chicago, Ill. SMS Demag USA will supply and install a 70-ton AC electric arc furnace and ladle furnace, as well as a complete automation package. The new meltshop—from which A. Finkl & Sons will produce the steel that it sells to more than 18 countries worldwide—will start production in 2009.
SMS group is, under 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 the two Business Areas SMS Demag and SMS Meer, which jointly form SMS metallurgy. In 2006, some 9000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.8 billion.
