ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the
Kazakhstan-based subsidiary of steel giant
ArcelorMittal, plans up to 2015 to construct and commission a new long steel rolling mill and a new color coating line. Within the first phase of the capacity expansion program targeting an overall output of six million mt of steel per year,
ArcelorMittal Temirtau has already started the construction of a new six-strand continuous square billet caster, planned to be commissioned by the end of 2011, and has also begun the capital repair of its blast furnace No. 2.
"However, we have to build one more long product rolling mill and one more color coating line. These units will be commissioned by 2015. The operation of four blast furnaces and three converters will allow the
production of six million mt of
crude steel per year, and will enable an increase in the
production of rolled steel products, including
longs, to up to 5.4 million mt," the plant's technical director Vadim Basin has said.
As SteelOrbis previously reported,
ArcelorMittal has developed a two-phase plan to increase
ArcelorMittal Temirtau's steel
production capacity to 10 million mt per year, with the second phase including the construction of a greenfield plant with an annual
crude steel production capacity of four million mt.