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Jan. 2006 — Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd. (NINL), India, has awarded SMS Demag AG, Germany, a contract for the supply of a BOF meltshop with 110-ton LD converter. Concast AG, Switzerland, another company of the SMS group, has been awarded a contract for the supply of a six-strand billet caster and ladle treatment station.

SMS Demag's scope of supply includes a converter vessel, trunnion ring, lamella suspension system and a converter tilt drive unit. The lamella suspension system is designed for constraint-free arrangement of the converter vessel in the trunnion ring. The converter tilt drive unit will be manufactured in SMS Demag's own workshop in Hilchenbach, Germany. SMS Demag will also supply the complete dedusting system as well as the electrical equipment and automation system (including Level 2) for the meltshop. SMS Demag will also be responsible for the project management of the overall facility.

The billet caster will be rated for an annual production of 917,000 tonnes of 100x150 mm billets. The scope of supply includes a ladle turret with lifting and lowering mechanism, tundish car with tundish lifting and lowering mechanism, stopper control system, Concast Convex© moulds, Concast M-EMS (Mould Electrical Magnetic Steering System) and billet marking facilities. Commissioning is scheduled for the spring of 2008.

NINL will be responsible for all buildings, concrete and steel structures as well as the cranes.

NINL, a member of India's Minerals & Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC), already has a coke oven plant and ironmaking plant, as well as its own 60-MW power station. The new facility will enable NINL to begin the production of long products.

SMS Demag AG and SMS Concast AG form 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 2004 some 9,500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.20 billion.

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