Germany-based plantmaker SMS Group has announced that it will supply two secondary metallurgy plants and two six-strand continuous billet casters (Nos. 2 and 3) for ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal. The new continuous billet casters will be installed next to the existing caster No. 1 at the Kryvyi Rih site. With the new process route in place, more construction steel billets will be continuously cast at this site, gradually replacing ingot casting. The two continuous billet casters are planned to produce 2.8 million mt per year of quality billets. Final commissioning of all the equipment supplied by SMS group is scheduled for the first quarter of 2019.
The scope of supply of SMS Group will include two twin-ladle furnaces with a capacity of 160 tons each, a water treatment plant, a material handling system and a fume treatment plant. Meanwhile, SMS Concast, a subsidiary of SMS Group, will supply two six-strand continuous billet casting plants.
By changing the process route to continuous casting, with its increased yield ratio and significant energy savings, the Kryvyi Rih plant will be capable of producing higher-quality billets at a lower cost.