UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that Brazilian steel producer Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP) started production at its new two-strand continuous slab caster supplied by Primetals Technologies. The new plant has a capacity of three million metric tons of slabs per year. The continuous slab caster is part of a new steel works in the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex in São Gonçalo do Amarante in the state of Ceará.
The slab concaster has a machine radius of 9.5 meters and a metallurgical length of 39.8 meters. It produces slabs in thicknesses of 220 mm, 250 mm and 300 mm, and in widths ranging from 1,100 mm to 2,300 mm. The slabs are then rolled into plate and sheet metal for use in mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, boiler and pipeline construction.