Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) has announced the receipt of an order from Germany-based ThyssenKrupp Steel for the modernization of the continuous caster in the oxygen steelworks at the company's Duisburg-Bruckhausen facility.
Within the scope of the project, the caster will be fitted out with new basic and process automation systems, a new control system and new process computers.
The order in question is worth several million euros and modernization of the continuous caster is scheduled for completion in May 2009.