Metallurgical Holding (Maxi Group, Ekaterinburg), Russia, has placed an order with SMS Demag AG, Germany, for supply of a steel minimill with a downstream continuous billet caster.
SMS Demag’s scope of supply includes a 120-tonne electric arc furnace, ladle furnace for secondary steelmaking treatment, dust collecting facility, alloy addition system and essential meltshop auxiliary equipment.
SMS subsidiary Concast AG, Switzerland, will supply a 6-strand continuous caster that can produce billets with a section size of up to 205 x 205 mm or, optionally, beam-blank sizes. The caster is equipped with Convex® technology for rapid high-production casting of the various section sizes.
The new facility is designed for a wide product range of light and medium sectional steel with an annual capacity of one million tonnes. Commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2006.
The new facility, which is to be named OAO Kaluga Electric Steel Plant for Research and Production (OAO KNPEMZ), will be located at Borovsk in the Region of Kaluga, approximately 180 km south of Moscow.
The new minimill is part of the Maxi Group’s planned investment program for building of several new steel minimills in various regions of Russia. The investment volume for this location alone, not including the rolling mill planned for the second expansion stage, comes to 150 million Euro.
SMS Demag has received two major orders from Russia over the past six months, including this order from the Maxi Group and a contract concluded with the TMK Group in October 2004 for the supply of three continuous casters.
Concast AG, Switzerland, is a subsidiary of the SMS group.
SMS Demag AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. The SMS group is 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 2003 around 9500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of around EUR 2.20 billion.