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Jindal Orders Siemens Caster for New Integrated Production Facility
11/18/2009 - Siemens VAI Metals Technologies receives an order from Jindal Steel & Power to supply a new single-strand slab caster, which will be built at Angul in the Indian state of Orissa. Startup is scheduled for September 2011.
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. for the supply of a new single-strand slab caster, which will be built at Angul in the Indian state of Orissa. The machine will reportedly be one of the most advanced slab casters in India. Startup is scheduled for September 2011.
The slab caster will be part of a green-field integrated production facility currently under construction at the Angul site where an annual steel output of about 6 million tonnes is planned. The nominal capacity of the caster will be about 1.5 million tonnes per year with steel grades ranging from ultra-low to high carbon steels as well as micro- and low-alloyed grades.
Production initially will concentrate on slabs for pipeline and plate applications, which will be rolled in a new Siemens VAI 5-m-wide plate mill that is currently under construction. The caster is equipped with a straight mold and the casting radius is 10 m. Slabs will be cast at thicknesses of 200, 260, and 300 mm and in widths from 1000 to 2300 mm. Cut-slab lengths will range from 4.5 to 12 m.
Siemens VAI responsibilities for this project include plant engineering, equipment design and supply, advisory services for erection, installation, start-up, and commissioning as well as personnel training. All of the major process equipment will be provided such as the main casting-floor equipment, mold, strand-guiding system, and discharge facilities in addition to the torch-cutting machine, deburrer, marker, roll-gap checker, and pusher/piler. Electrics, hardware, and software for Level 1 automation and Level 2 process optimization as well as hydraulic, lubrication, and cooling systems are also included.
Siemens VAI says that a range of technological packages, systems, and other special equipment items will be installed in the caster. These include the LevCon system, which combines with the Siemens VAI VEMA stopper actuator for automatic and precise mold-level-control; MoldExpert for strand-temperature monitoring as well as friction and heat-flux calculations; and Smart Mold, which enables the narrow sides of the mold to be hydraulically moved and, in combination with DynaWidth technology, allows slab-width adjustments to be carried out during casting.
This caster project will be jointly implemented by Siemens VAI groups based in Sheffield, U.K.; Linz, Austria; and Kolkata, India.
Jindal Steel and Power Ltd., part of the Jindal Group, is the third-largest steel manufacturing company in India. In their fiscal year 2008-09, the company produced 2.4 million tonnes of steel products consisting of billets, blooms, rounds, plates, coils, heavy structural sections (including H-beam) and rails (120-m long). The company already operates several steel plants in India where a wide range of products are rolled and processed from billets, blooms, beam blanks and slabs.
The Siemens Industry Sector, Erlangen, Germany, is a leading international supplier of production, transportation, building and lighting technologies. The sector comprises six divisions: Building Technologies, Drive Technologies, Industry Automation, Industry Solutions, Mobility, and Osram. With around 222,000 employees worldwide, Siemens Industry posted in fiscal year 2008 a profit of EUR 3.86 billion with revenues totaling EUR 38 billion.
With the business activities of Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria), Siemens Water Technologies (Warrendale, Pa.), and Industrial Technologies (Erlangen, Germany), the Siemens Industry Solutions Division (Erlangen, Germany) is one of the world's leading solution and service providers for industrial and infrastructure facilities. Using its own products, systems, and process technologies, Industry Solutions develops and builds plants for end customers, commissions them, and provides support during their entire life cycle. With around 31,000 employees worldwide, Siemens Industry Solutions achieved an order intake of EUR 8.415 billon in fiscal year 2008.
