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Oct. 2006 — Kardemir AS, Turkey, has awarded an order to Concast, Switzerland, for a 90-tonne vacuum degassing facility with mechanical vacuum pumps.

The vacuum facility, which is to be integrated into the existing process chain, will be used to treat steel arriving from the 90-tonne Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF).

Concast’s scope of supply comprises both mechanical and electrical components, including three-stage mechanical pumps, filters and dust collecting facility. Concast will also supply wire in-feed and Level 2 automation.

Commissioning is scheduled for January 2007.

Kardemir AS has its head office in Karabük, Turkey.

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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