ArcelorMittal Temirtau to commission new units by 2015

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.