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SMS Demag to Supply Meltshop, CSP, and Finishing Equipment for SeverCorr

11/28/2005 - SeverCorr LLC has placed an order with SMS Demag, Germany, for the supply of all production facilities for its integrated works, ranging from steelmaking to the hot strip mill, cold rolling mill and strip surface finishing.

SeverCorr LLC has placed an order with SMS Demag, Germany, for the supply of all production facilities for its integrated works, ranging from steelmaking to the hot strip mill, cold rolling mill and strip surface finishing.

The core of this process chain is a CSP® plant of the latest design for the production of auto body sheets and high-strength multiphase steels for the automobile industry.

The facility will also be capable of producing ultra-fine hot strip that can be substituted for cold strip in suitable areas of application.

SMS Demag will prepare and implement the CSP plant’s automation system using the tried and tested Plug and Work process.

SMS Demag’s scope of supply comprises the steelmaking plant, the downstream CSP plant, cold rolling mill with coupled five-stand tandem pickling line, a skinpass mill and hot dip galvanizing line. The steelmaking plant will include an electric arc furnace, ladle furnace, and vacuum degasser. The CSP plant comprises a thin slab caster, continuous furnace and a six-stand hot rolling mill.

The tandem pickling line will be equipped with the proven turbulence pickling technology as well as with five four-high stands. For hot-dip galvanizing, provision is made for alkaline and electrolytic cleaning, a vertical furnace and a galvannealing facility. An in-line skinpass mill will also be integrated into the facility.

The works are designed in their first construction stage for an annual capacity of around 1.5 million tons of hot strip, of which one million will be further processed in the cold rolling mill. In a second construction stage, hot strip production can be increased to around three million tons a year.

The new works will be set up in Columbus, Miss. SeverCorr, a joint venture of Severstal, Russia, and SteelCorr, USA, will carry out the commissioning of the cold rolling mill in spring 2007. Commissioning of the steelmaking plant with the CSP plant is scheduled for the summer of 2007.

SMS Demag AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. SMS GmbH is the holding for a group of companies 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 2004 some 9,500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.20 billion.