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Vizag Steel Plant successfully commissions new bloom & round combi-caster from SMS Concast

17th September 2018

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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RINL’s (Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.) Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has successfully commissioned the new continuous casting machine in Visakhapatnam, India, which was supplied by SMS Concast, a company of SMS group (www.sms-group.com).

With a casting radius of twelve meters, the five-strand continuous casting machine has a rated capacity of one million tons per year,covering a wide range of steel grades from simple carbon grades to grades for ball bearing and seamless tube applications as well as railway wheels.

The new continuous casting machine is enlarging the product range of Vizag Steel by introducing round bloom sections of 410 and 450 millimeters in diameter in addition to the 200 millimeters square sections. The smoothly commissioned casting machine encompasses all technological features required to produce steel grades for highest quality demands, including a submerged pouring system with electro-mechanical stopper flow control system, hydraulic mold oscillation, mold and final electromagnetic stirrers as well as a product marking system.

The state-of-the-art Level 1 and Level 2 automation systems ensure efficient operation of the continuous casting machine with minimized personnel requirements, while controlling and monitoring all required process parameters and capturing all key product data for digital production and quality tracking.

With this new state-of-the-art equipment, Vizag Steels will be able to further strengthen its position in the Special Bar Quality (SBQ) market.“Thanks to the very successful cooperation with SMS Concast, we
now operate a continuous casting machine of the latest technology specifically designed to meet our high quality standards,” says Mr.P.C. Mohapatra - Director (Projects) at Vizag Steels.

Vizag Steel Plant now produces rounds of 410 and 450 millimeters in diameter in addition to 200 millimeters square blooms on the new continuous casting machine supplied by SMS Concast.

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