Italian plantmaker Danieli has announced that it will supply a new casting strand to the state-owned Vietnamese steelmaker Southern Steel Company. The new casting strand will be added to the existing continuous billet caster which was also supplied by Danieli in 2005 and has an annual billet production capacity of 530,000 mt and an annual rolled products capacity of 400,000 mt.
The new equipment scheduled to become operational in February 2017 will produce 120 mm x 120 mm and 150 mm x 150 mm square billets in open-stream casting mode.