Nucor Steel Brandenburg has celebrated the inauguration of the new greenfield facility at the Buttermilk Falls Industrial Park site located on the Ohio River in Brandenburg, Kentucky.
It is one of the world’s largest and most advanced continuous casting plants, which is capable of producing 1.45 million tons of slabs per year in widths of up to 3.15 meters and thicknesses of 200 millimeters, 250 millimeters and 300 millimeters. With this new plant, Nucor plans to supply steel products, sustainably manufactured, for renewable energy projects.
One of the most important products manufactured at this facility is Nucor’s ElcyonTM, a heavy plate product made from recycled materials, which was specially developed for the offshore wind industry and provides a domestic sustainable steel supply chain that is in great demand by the US energy sector.
SMS supplied the following key equipment for this facility: A single-strand continuous caster for ultra-wide and ultra-thick slabs, walking beam and bogie hearth furnaces, a continuous heat treatment line and heavy-plate treatment section, as well as the water treatment system.
As a life cycle partner, the SMS Group has established a repair service center at the Nucor Brandenburg site and offers repair services for continuous casting molds and has built a strong team of 22 employees capable of providing mechanical and electrical maintenance services to all areas of the Brandenburg plant for many years to come.
As a lifecycle partner, SMS has set up a repair service center at the Nucor Brandenburg site and offers repair services for continuous casting molds and containment segments as part of a long-term service agreement. In addition to SMS group has built up a strong team of 22 employees who are able to provide mechanical and electrical maintenance services for all areas of the Brandenburg plant for many years to come.
“This represents another chapter in the long history of Nucor and SMS group, which have been collaborating closely for more than 35 years,” says Chad Donovan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for SMS group; Key Account Manager for Nucor.
