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| ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA constructs meltshop in Alabama Construction work is set to begin on a further central unit at ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA. The engineering for the meltshop in Calvert and preparatory work had been continued in recent months anyway. The startup of the meltshop is scheduled for December 2012. The complete meltshop now about to be built consists of a 160 ton electric arc furnace, 180 ton AOD converter (Argon Oxygen Decarburization) and a 72 inch (1,900 millimeter) continuous caster. The meltshop will have a capacity of 900,000 to 1 million tons per year. The stainless steel slabs it produces will be rolled into hot band on the hot strip mill of sister company ThyssenKrupp Steel USA. Of this hot band, around 340,000 tons per year will go to ThyssenKrupp Mexinox in San Luis Potosí (Mexico). Another roughly 525,000 tons per year will be transformed in the cold rolling mill into 175,000 tons of white hot-rolled (up to 10 millimeter thickness) and 350,000 tons of stainless cold-rolled (0.5 - 5 millimeter thickness). Until the meltshop starts production, ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA is being supplied with slabs from the group's European mills. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |