UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it will supply two continuous slab casters and a hot rolling mill for Indian steelmaker JSW Steel’s Dolvi plant in Maharashtra. The casters are scheduled to come on stream in the middle of 2019.
According to Primetals Technologies, together the two two-strand casters will have an initial annual capacity of around 4.5 million metric tons of slabs with future capacity potential for six million metric tons. A number of technology packages will ensure that the slabs have high internal and surface quality. Meanwhile, the hot rolling mill will have an annual capacity of five million metric tons per year. The mill will be designed to handle many different steel grades, including carbon structural steel, high quality carbon steel, low alloy steel, as well as HSLA and API grades up to X-70
The new casting plants and new hot rolling mill from Primetals Technologies, together with other capital investments, will substantially increase the Dolvi plant’s capacity. In the medium term, JSW Steel envisions an increase of its total production capacity to 40 million metric tons of steel per annum.