ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA has started up its melt shop, the final
production line, fulfilling the site's capabilities as a fully integrated stainless steel manufacturing facility, according to media reports. The melt shop has an annual
production capacity of 900,000 mt of stainless
slab.
Accordingly, the company is now able to manufacture the full life cycle of stainless steel, by melting scrap metal into molten material, casting it into slabs, hot rolling it into coils, annealing and pickling the coils, cold rolling the material for strength and thickness, and finishing it at the Calvert site.
The company also stated that, although the official start up took place on December 10, the melt shop was run on November 16 for the first time, processing 166 mt of stainless steel.