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Oct. 2006 — Elfouladh, Société Tunésienne de Sidérurgie, Tunisia, has awarded to Concast, Switzerland, an order for a 25-tonne arc furnace.

The new arc furnace, with an annual production of 230,000 tonnes, will be equipped with eccentric bottom tapping (EBT) lip and ConsoTech burner.

Commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2007.

This project follows Concast’s successful revamp of Elfouladh’s existing ABB-EAF in 2005.

Concast AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. SMS GmbH is the holding for a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering relating to the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals and plastics. The group is divided into the Business Areas of Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology, Tube, Long Product and Forging Technology and Plastics Technology. In the year 2005 some 9,250 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.33 billion.

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