Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order for a continuous billet casting plant from Armenian steel producer ASCE Group OJSC. Commissioning of the plant is planned for mid-2013.
ASCE Group OJSC will be the first company to operate a compact and cost-efficient continuous billet casting plant for carbon steels that complies with the new plant design presented by Siemens in 2011. The scrap recycling company operates an arc furnace-based compact steel plan in Charentsavan. At the end of 2011, the company had ordered a bar rolling mill from Siemens, which is also to commence production in mid-2013.
The rolling mill will receive its material from the new continuous billet casting plant. Both quality steel and low and medium carbon steel will be cast. The two-strand casting plant will produce 200,000 metric tons of billets per year with a square cross-section of 120 mm x120 mm.