News & Press Releases

London, May 17, 2019

Primetals Technologies will supply an Arvedi ESP (Endless Strip Production) line to United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) for its Edgar Thomson Plant at Braddock, Pennsylvania production location. This will be the first ESP line to be constructed in the US. The casting-rolling plant has a rated capacity of 2.5 million metric tons  (2.76 million short tons) of high-quality, ultra-thin strip. With a maximum strip width of 1,956 mm (77”), it will be the widest ESP line ever built.

London, May 14, 2019

Chinese steel producer Angang Iron & Steel Group Co. (Angang) has placed an order with Primetals Technologies to modernize a continuous slab caster at its Anshan plant. The modernized caster will replace the existing CCM 1 in its steel works No. 1. The objectives of the project are to improve the slab quality for use in the subsequent plate mill and to increase maximum slab thickness from 300 to 360 millimeters. Furthermore, flexibility will be improved by installing SRD segments in the horizontal strand guide, which marks the first application of SRD (Single-Roll DynaGap) segments in a caster in China.

London, April 25, 2019

In late March, Ukrainian steel producer PJSC “Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol” (MMKI) issued the Final Acceptance Certificates (FACs) for a two-strand continuous slab caster, a twin ladle furnace with an alloying station, and the associated dedusting system, all supplied by Primetals Technologies. The two-strand caster CC4 is designed to produce 2.5 million metric tons of slabs per annum.

London, April 18, 2019

Since February 2019, a new level 2 process automation system from Primetals Technologies has been in successful operation on the CC8 continuous slab caster in the Linz plant of the Austrian steel producer, voestalpine Stahl GmbH. It replaces an existing system on the casting plant supplied by a third-party in 2018. All the continuous casters in the Linz plant of voestalpine Stahl GmbH now feature the same version of the level 2 system from Primetals Technologies.

London, March 12, 2019

Recently, a six-strand billet caster revamped by Primetals Technologies was started up in the Lonato del Garda works of Feralpi Siderurgica S.p.A., part of the Italian Feralpi Group. The aims of the project were to increase production capacity from 1.1 to 1.2 million metric tons of billets per year, to produce billets with a larger square cross section of 150 x 150 millimeters with predisposition for cross section of 160 x 160, millimeters, and to improve plant availability.