German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that the Indian steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited's Rourkela steel plant has doubled its slab production capacity to 3 million mt per year thanks to the slab caster supplied by SMS Siemag.
In 2013, Rourkela steel plant successfully cast the first slabs on the new continuous caster. The single-strand caster is intended for slabs of 220, 250 and 300 mm in thickness and ranging from 1,200 to 2,500 mm in width.
Rourkela steel plant mainly processes sophisticated micro-alloyed steels and heavy-plate grades on the caster.