UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it received an order from Ukrainian steel producer Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (MMKI), a subsidiary of Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest, to supply a two-strand continuous slab caster and secondary metallurgy facilities.
The two-strand caster is designed to produce 2.5 million metric tons of slabs per year. This will increase MMKI's annual production capacity to around four million metric tons, as well as enhancing and expanding its product portfolio. It will cast slabs with thicknesses of 170 mm and 250 mm and with widths of 900-1,550 mm.