Steel Market 01 / 2020

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Industry & Technology
Global Steel Wire places order for a Six-Strand Billet Caster
Global Steel Wire S.A. (Celsa Group), located in Santander, Spain, has placed the order for the upgrade of their continuous
billet casting machine with SMS Concast. Steel production at Global Steel Wire S.A. (GSW) is focused on wire rod in special
steel grades for the automotive and special engineering industries. Currently, the existing caster produces roughly
900,000 tonnes of steel per year in 180 millimeter square sections. The aim of the modernization is to increase the production
flexibility by broadening the range of cast formats by the addition of 200 to 240 millimeter square sections, increasing
the casting speeds, and consequently enhancing the productivity and the quality of the cast products. The upgrade is
to be implemented with minimized interruption of production. The start-up of the upgraded machine is scheduled for
early 2021. The order includes the installation of CONDRIVE mold oscillation drive systems on all strands. CONDRIVE has
already been tested and has been successfully running on one strand at Global Steel Wire since October 2018.
Ural Steel selects Danieli DANCU Technology for BF modernization
As part of a large scale, technical
overhaul project on Blast Furnaces No.
2 and 3 at the Ural Steel plant in Novotroitsk,
Russian steel producer Metalloinvest
has selected Danieli technology
to upgrade Blast Furnace No.
3’s charging system. The furnace will
be equipped with a modern chutetype
distributor based on hydraulics
for maximum reliability and availability.
The Danieli distributor (DANCU) has
only a few moving parts, and it is the
most straightforward, robust design
in the industry. All main components
are either failure-free or redundant,
ensuring unparalleled reliability. To
allow implementation without large-scale
modifications to the existing
top structure of Ural Steel plant’s Blast
Furnace No. 3, Danieli Centro Metallics
and Danieli Corus have developed
the Compact DANCU, which has a
slightly shorter maximum chute
length, the plantbuilder underlines.
Copyright: Danieli
Danieli‘s DANCU at Ural Steel
in Novotroitsk
Sublance systems for Severstal Cherepovets
Severstal has contracted Danieli Corus to design and supply three sublance systems for three 350t converters at the
BOF Shop at Cherepovets. Danieli Corus is the market leader in sublance-based BOF process control, and the implementation
of this technology will contribute to Severstal’s objective of achieving lower steel production costs while
maintaining efficiency and quality. Sublance technology, in combination with a state-of-the-art process model, enables
shorter tap-to-tap times, higher hit rates and reduced consumption of oxygen, energy and flux materials, while
improving operating conditions. Danieli Corus systems have a proven, unparalleled capability of trouble-free operation
for multiple decades in the hostile environment above the converter hood.
China’s Jingye Group will be taking over
certain assets of British Steel
According to a statement from the UK Official Receiver’s
(OR) office, »the Official Receiver and Special
Managers from EY can confirm that a sales contract has
been entered into with Jingye Steel (UK) Ltd and Jingye
Steel (UK) Holding Ltd (together, Jingye), to acquire the
business and assets of British Steel Limited (BSL), including
the steelworks at Scunthorpe, UK mills and shares
of FN Steel BV, British Steel France Rail SAS and TSP Engineering.«
British Steel had entered administration in
May when former owners Greybull Capital had declared
the company as bankrupt. It has since continued to operate
under the direction of special managers appointed
by the UK government’s OR. »Jingye plans to invest £1.2
billion in the business over the next decade in upgrading
the plants and machinery, improving the new company’s
environmental performance and boosting energy efficiency
to place the operations on a more competitive
and sustainable footing,« the Chinese steelmaker says.
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