Germany-based plantmaker SMS Group has announced that Indian steelmaker Tata Steel has started operations at its new converter shop, secondary metallurgy facilities and a continuous slab caster in Kalinganagar, Odisha, India, supplied by SMS Group.
For Kalinganagar project, which is designed for an annual production of more than six million mt of steel slabs, SMS Group’s supply scope comprised a twin station hot-metal desulphurization plant, a converter shop featuring an Ecoplants gas cleaning and recovery plant, a CAS-OB unit (Composition Adjustment by Sealed argon bubbling - Oxygen Blowing), RH degasser (Ruhrstahl-Heraeus) and a two-strand slab caster.
According to SMS Group’s statement, the first of three converters, each with a capacity of 310 mt, has gone into operation in the new converter shop. Meanwhile, the two-strand vertical-bend continuous caster, which also started operation, is designed for the production of quality slabs in a thickness of 230 millimeters and widths between 1,000 and 2,000 millimeters. The maximum casting speed of the highly productive caster is 1.9 meters per minute. The second converter and the RH facility will be commissioned in the current year as well.