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March 2006 — Riva, Italy, recently awarded a contract to Concast, Switzerland, for the supply of a three(four)-strand Convex^® billet caster for their Caronno Pertusella Works.

The billet caster will have a radius of twelve meters with continuous unbending section. Cast sizes are 200 and 260 mm², with future expansion to include 300 mm² round. The steel grades processed will include carbon and alloyed steels for the production of forgings and automotive parts, boron steels, spring steels and free-cutting steels.

Concast’s scope of supply will comprise new technological systems and equipment, and Convex technology including Convex copper tubes, stopper control, electromagnetic final stirrer, hydraulically operated compact type oscillator and air-mist secondary cooling system. The billet caster will be equipped with a state-of-the-art Level 2 automation system for actual plant operation as well as for complete control of the casting process.

Commissioning of the new caster is scheduled for mid-June of 2007.

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 2004 some 9,500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.20 billion.

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