stahlmarkt 09 | 2019

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BAOSTEEL ORDERS ADDITIONAL CONTINUOUS SLAB CASTER
Baosteel Zhanjiang, a subsidiary company of
the Chinese corporation Baoshan Iron and Steel Co
Ltd. (Baosteel) placed an order for a continuous slab
caster with Primetals Technologies. The caster, CCM
3, will be set up in the Baosteel production site in
Guangdong Province in South China, where Baosteel
Zhanjiang already operates two slab casters
supplied by Primetals Technologies since late 2015.
CCM 3 has an annual capacity of 2.8 million metric
tons of high-quality, high-strength steel grades. It
will supply slabs for a 1,780 millimeter hot strip
mill, complements the new Zhanjiang facility and
is part of a second phase of site development with
the aim to reach an annual steel plant capacity of
12.35 million metric tons per year. Start-up of the
new casting machine is expected for early 2021.
Baosteel: The additional continuous slab
caster will produce 2.8 million metric tons of
slabs per year for demanding applications.
Copyright: Primetals
QTB PROCESS FOR NUCOR MARION BAR MILL
Following last year’s order for a new 18-stand
rolling mill, Nucor Steel has chosen Danieli to supply
a new Quenching and Self-Tempering system,
to be installed at the same mill in Marion, Ohio. The
Quenching and Self-Tempering process improves
the mechanical properties of deformed bars, in particular
the yield strength, using billets with lower
alloy content. The result is a product with final technological
characteristics equal to or even better
than those obtained by low-alloyed/micro-alloyed
steels. The new system is designed for rolling
speeds up to 13 m/s for single and multi-strand
rebar, and it is controlled by a dedicated stand-alone
system provided by Danieli Automation. Commissioning
is expected in the next few months.
SHANDONG TO INVEST IN BAR MILL LINE
Shandong Laigang Yongfeng Iron & Steel Co.,
Ltd. (Yongfeng) awarded Friedrich KOCKS GmbH
& Co KG, Hilden, Germany, for the supply of a RSB ®
370++/4 in 5.0 design, in conjunction with the
KOCKS Size Control System SCS ® and the 4D EAG-
LE ® profile measuring gauge. The privately owned
Yongfeng Steel Co. Ltd., founded in 2002, is a subsidiary
of Yongfeng Group Co. Ltd. and one of the
major steel producers in Shandong Province. Currently,
Yongfeng produces about 5 million tons of
steel per year with about 6,500 employees. The
brand new bar mill line with an overall capacity of
1 Mio.t/a will be equipped with 22 conti stands in
H/V arrangement and a KOCKS RSB ® 370++/4 and
is designed to produce high quality products and
marks Yongfeng´s entry into the SBQ-market. The
commissioning is scheduled for the second half of
2020.
NUCOR ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT CHANGES
Nucor Corporation announced that John J.
Ferriola, 67, will retire as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) on December 31, 2019
and that the Board of Directors elected Leon J.
Topalian, 51, to be President and Chief Operating
Officer, and to succeed Mr. Ferriola as CEO on
January 1, 2020, in connection with Nucor‘s
planned succession process. Mr. Ferriola has served
as Chairman since 2014 and as CEO since
2013. Previously, he served as President from
2011 to September 2019, President and Chief
Operating Officer from 2011 to 2012, Chief Operating
Officer of Steelmaking Operations from
2007 to 2010, Executive Vice President from
2002 to 2007, and Vice President from 1996 to
2001. He has also been a director of Nucor since
2011. Mr. Ferriola joined Nucor in 1991 as the
Manager of Maintenance and Engineering at
Nucor Steel-Texas. He later served as General
Manager of Vulcraft-Texas, Nucor Steel-Nebraska
and Nucor Steel-Indiana.
steel market 01.2019