India’s Essar Steel commissions its new CSP plant

Gujarat, India-based steelmaker Essar Steel has commissioned its new compact strip production (CSP) plant which was supplied by German plantmaker SMS Siemag.
 
The CSP plant has been successfully put into operation with one casting strand, while a second and third strand will be added in the next few months. Essar Steel will thus have the first three-strand CSP plant in the world, with an annual capacity of 3.5 million mt of hot strip.
 
The plant will allow Essar Steel to produce hot strip with widths of 950 mm to 1,680 mm and thicknesses of 1.0 mm to 25.4 mm. Additionally, the slab thickness can be variably adjusted between 55 mm and 80 mm. The product range covers carbon steels as well as pipe grades, silicon and dual-phase steels.