UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it will revamp the six-strand billet caster of Italian steelmaker Feralpi Siderurgica S.p.A., located in the company’s Lonato del Garda works.
According to Primetals Technologies, the aims of the project are to increase production capacity from 1.1 million mt to 1.2 million mt 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. Start-up of the revamped casting machine is scheduled for early 2019.