Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has announced that it has commissioned the LD (BOF) converter and continuous slab caster of the second production line of the ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderùrgica do Atlântico steel mill in Brazil, a subsidiary of the German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp.
Accordingly, the first slab had already been cast on the first line in September. The steel works is designed to produce annually about five million mt of slabs with widths of 800 mm to 2000 mm, thicknesses of 200 mm to 260 mm and lengths from 6 to 12 m.
Siemens VAI supplied two basic oxygen furnace plants, secondary metallurgical facilities, primary and secondary dust-cleaning systems, two continuous slab casters, and the associated electrical and automation equipment.
The new steel mill of ThyssenKrupp CSA is a highly efficient production facility located in Sepetiba in state of Rio de Janeiro, near Brazilian iron ore deposits. Around 40 percent of the produced slabs are to be rolled at German locations of ThyssenKrupp. The remaining 60 percent are foreseen for further processing at the new ThyssenKrupp works in Calvert, Alabama, USA.