SMS commissions electric steel plant at PT Gunung
Thursday, June 30 2016 - 04:10 AM WIB
Germany?s SMS group announced Wednesday it has successfully commissioned an electric steel plant with efficient environmental technology and a single-strand continuous slab caster at Indonesia?s PT Gunung, a unit of Gunung Steel Group, in Bekasi, West Java.
SMS said in a statement that the melt shop with the ARCCESS electric arc furnace and a ladle furnace is designed for an annual production of 1.2 million tons of steel to be cast into slabs on the new continuous caster.
?The new works is of high strategic importance to us. Until now, we had to purchase slabs. By producing slabs ourselves, we do not only achieve a higher creation of value, but also ensure high quality thanks to the plants supplied by SMS group,? said B. K. Dutta, General Director at PT Gunung, in the statement.
?SMS group supplies an 120-ton ARCCESS electric arc furnace and a 120-ton ladle furnace for the new steelworks complex. The range of charge materials for the electric arc furnace includes scrap, HBI (Hot Briquetted Iron) and hot metal,? he added.
The continuous caster is designed for the production of slabs with thicknesses of 220 and 250 millimeters and widths from 800 to 2,100 millimeters. The range of grades produced will comprise structural steels as well as pipe and heavy-plate grades.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak