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16 Newsletter 2/2010 Minimills SMS Meer and SMS Concast Siam Yamato, Thailand: Minimill for maximum benefits Highly praised by the customer Piya Chairat, Plant Manager of Siam Yamato, is full of praise: “SMS enjoys worldwide a distinguished reputation and we benefit from this every day especially when our customers visit us. They see the company signs from SMS on the plant and are positive right away: German and Swiss technologies sell extremely well also in Thailand.“ The mill of Siam Yamato, south of Bangkok.
Piya Chairat, Plant Manager of Siam Yamato and his colleagues, remain convinced of the decision in favor of SMS: ”With the minimill for medium sections from SMS at the Map Tha Put location we have bought the right equipment,” said the manager of the Thai/Japanese steel enterprise. ”My customers believe in technology from SMS and we had to invest significantly less money than for a conventional plant. In this way, we are able to produce at lower cost and even the ecological values are excellent.” Since several months, this perfectly producing mill has been in operation. 40-year-old idea more relevant than ever ”Minimill” – this 40-year-old idea is today more relevant than ever. Germany’s Willy Korff had designed the mill in the sixties. In 1968, he inaugurated his steel plant in Kehl, Baden, Germany, the first of its kind with electric arc furnaces and an associated rolling mill for the production of rebars from SMS, at that time worldwide an absolute novelty. The idea was revolutionary. From then on, steel could no longer be only produced where the coal was located but at any location. The Kehl port area with easy access to waterway, rail and highway was ideal to deliver scrap as starting material. The finishing train. Just one year later, nearly 149,000 t of steel were produced in Kehl. Meanwhile, annual production is more than 2.2 million t which corresponds to 23,500 charges per year. In the early years, the smelting staff required a few hours for a charge but today the time required for loading scrap up to liquid steel takes just 38 minutes. Good for ecology and “green“ steel In the age of ecology and “green“ steel, Korff’s idea which was realized by applying SMS technology has considerably regained attraction. Steel production and further processing in an integrated factory saves energy. At the same time, the customers benefit from highly flexible SMS plants which can be revamped within very short periods of time and thus the demand is correspondingly high. Successful minimill team SMS has reacted to the market demands with a comprehensive team. Under the direction of Paolo Cancian from SMS Meer, Italy, colleagues from all over the world closely cooperate with each other, whether they are from the Business Area SMS Meer or from SMS Concast. The success justifies the concept: large and significant reference plants such as those at Siam Yamato (medium sections), Tung Ho in Thailand (bar mill) or a combined plant from SSM in Košice are already running at full speed just like a mill in the USA. With a planned works for heavy beams in Sulb, Bahrain, another milestone will be added soon and also in Saudi Arabia a mill is under construction. Newsletter 2/2010 » 17
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