Open / Close Advertisement

Essar Steel Commissions CSP Plant from SMS Siemag

05/27/2011 - The Compact Strip Production (CSP®) plant with three strands, supplied by SMS Siemag to Essar Steel Ltd. at Hazira in Gujarat, was successfully put into operation with one casting strand on March 31.

The Compact Strip Production (CSP®) plant with three strands, supplied by SMS Siemag to Essar Steel Ltd. at Hazira in Gujarat, was successfully put into operation on March 31. The first strip had a final gage of 5.5 mm and a width of 1290 mm.
 
The plant went into operation with one casting strand and is expected to be successively extended in the next few months by the second and third strands. Essar Steel will reportedly have the first three-strand CSP plant worldwide, with an annual capacity of 3.5 million tonnes of hot strip.
 
The CSP plant is supplied by an X-Melt® steelworks, also built by SMS Siemag, with two 200-tonne CONARC® furnace units and two twin ladle furnaces designed for around 5 million tonnes per year. A conventional continuous slab caster is also supplied from the steelworks.
 
The CSP plant consists of three casters, three roller-hearth furnaces with swivel transfer cars, a rolling mill with seven stands, the laminar strip cooling section, and two downcoilers. The caster was built as a vertical-bending machine. The slab thickness can be variably adjusted between 55 and 80 mm.
 
Essar Steel can produce hot strip with widths of 950 to 1680 mm and thicknesses of 1.0 to 25.4 mm on the CSP plant. The product range covers carbon steels as well as pipe grades, silicon and dual-phase steels.
 
SMS Siemag's scope of supply includes the engineering, the manufacture of the mechanical equipment, the entire electrical and automation systems, the erection supervision, and commissioning.
 
The X-Pact® automation has been prepared with the Plug & Work process, which simulates the production sequence and allows the automation functions to be tested and optimized under realistic conditions prior to installation in the works.
 
SMS Siemag AG is a company of the SMS group, which is, under the roof of SMS Holding GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It consists of two business areas, SMS Siemag and SMS Meer. In 2010, about 9200 employees worldwide generated a turnover of EUR 3 billion.