Switzerland based SMS Concast has announced that it has received an order from the Indian steelmaker BMM Ispat for the delivery of a combined-caster.
With the new caster, BMM Ispat will be able to produce 1.1 million mt of billets and rounds per year. The combined-caster is scheduled to be commissioned in November 2013.
In the first phase of BMM Ispat's expansion plan, SMS Concast will supply a high-speed combined-caster which is fully equipped to cast challenging steel grades like spring steel, free-cutting steel, bearing steel, pipe grades, and micro-alloyed and structural steels.
Under the scope of its expansion project, the company plans to increase its annual steel manufacturing capacity to about 2 million mt in two phases. With the capacity expansion, BMM Ispat will become the second largest steel producer in the state of Karnataka,
India.