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Nucor Inc. has awarded Concast America Inc. a major contract to rebuild its four-strand caster in Seattle, Wash.

Concast will replace the technological core of Nucor’s Seattle caster. Scope of supply will include new cartridge meter mold assemblies, electromechanical short-lever oscillation system, and an intensive multi-zone secondary spray ConMax cooling system. Concast will also supply CCS withdrawal straighteners, service systems and a full automation package.

A subsidiary of Concast AG, Switzerland, Concast America serves long-product steelmakers throughout North America, providing comprehensive engineering services, supply of full meltshop and caster equipment for blooms, beam blanks, rounds and billets, as well as services, automation and process control.

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