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SMS Demag to Supply Slab Caster for New Tokyo Steel Facility
06/19/2007 - Tokyo Steel Mfg. Co. has awarded SMS Demag an order to supply a twin-strand slab caster for its new works in the Japanese town of Tahara, which will be the company’s fifth production facility.
Tokyo Steel Mfg. Co. Ltd., Japan, has awarded an order to SMS Demag, Germany, to supply a twin-strand slab caster for its works in the Japanese town of Tahara.
The new slab caster is a vertical bending plant, constructed with 16 segments for a metallurgical length of 35 meters, and it will attain a maximum casting speed of 2.2 meters/minute. The new caster will be will be designed for an annual production of 2.4 million tonnes of steel slabs.
SMS Demag’s scope of supply comprises complete engineering and all of the mechanical and electrical components, from the ladle turret to the runout roller table, as well as the mold with hydraulic resonance oscillation and mold monitoring system. SMS Demag will also supply X-Pact® electrical and automation systems, including process models, training of the customer’s personnel and supervision of erection and commissioning.
The new slab caster will feature the Intelligent Slab Casting® package, which contains technologies that have an essential influence on quality, such as dynamic Soft Reduction, variable spot cooling, quenching and Dynamic Solidification Control (DSC) with air-mist secondary cooling (water, air) and a width-dependent spraying system. The homogeneous internal quality of the slabs will be achieved by smooth and problem-free interplay of these technologies.
The new facility will be used predominantly for casting ultra-low carbon (ULC) and interstitial-free (IF) grades as well as low- and medium-carbon grades.
The works in Tahara is being erected completely new as Tokyo Steel’s fifth production facility. The caster installation is the second order Tokyo Steel has awarded to SMS Demag for the new Tahara complex.
Commissioning of the new slab caster is scheduled for 2009.
Tokyo Steel is Japan’s largest producer of electric steel.
SMS group, 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 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.
