Austria-based giant engineering and plantmaking company Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Siemens) has announced the successful commissioning in February 2009 of the blast furnace No. 3 which it installed and equipped at the Toranagallu steelworks of the Indian company JSW Steel Ltd.
With an internal volume of over 4,019 cubic meters and a nominal annual capacity of 2.8 million mt of iron, the blast furnace No. 3 is the largest blast furnace existing in India today and increases the production capacity of JSW Steel at its Toranagallu works to around seven million mt of steel per year.
The order to equip the blast furnace No. 3 was secured by Siemens in November 2005. The scope of supply and services included plant engineering and the supply of diverse core components.
This project is the latest in a series of orders awarded by JSW Steel to Siemens for the Toranagallu location, which has included two Corex plants, a continuous caster and the expansion of a hot strip mill.