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Mumbai, Nov. 30 Siemens Metals Technologies, a division of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group, has received €80 million (Rs 464 crore) orders from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for the supply of two 6-strand billet casters and one 4-strand bloom/beam-blank combi-caster which will be installed at the company’s IISCO Steel plant in Burnpur, West Bengal.

The project is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2010.

The casters’ installations are part of a modernisation and steel-capacity expansion project underway at the Burnpur plant.

The contract includes supply of basic and detail engineering, equipment as well as advisory and training services.

SAIL has an annual crude steel production output exceeding 13 million tonnes per annum. The company has five integrated iron and steel plants at Bhilai, Durgapur, Rourkela, Bokaro and Burnpur, and four plants at Salem, Durgapur, Bhadravati and Chandrapur which produce special and alloy steels as well as ferro-alloys.

The billet casters are designed for open and submerged casting which will be respectively applied for the production of rebars and high-quality steels comprising forging quality, high-carbon, cold-heading, spring-steel, electrode-quality and alloyed construction-steel grades.

The casters will include advanced design features such as ladle support by means of butterfly ladle turrets, cantilever-type tundish cars, nozzle-changing devices for open stream casting and stopper rods for submerged casting, maintenance-free Dynaflex hydraulic oscillators, diamold high-speed tube molds, advanced electromagnetic mold-stirring systems and Level 1 and Level 2 automation systems.

The bloom/beam-blank combi-caster will cast carbon steel and alloyed-steel grades.

The caster will also be equipped with advanced casting equipment such as Dynaflex, electromagnetic mold stirring and air-mist cooling.

In addition to engineering, the supply of equipment and the installation of electrics, Siemens Metals Technologies will also provide advisory services for erection, commissioning and training for all three casters.

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