The first slabs and coils have been produced by South African steel producer Scaw Metals, at its Johannesburg Works.
The purpose for investing in this brownfield project has been to expand the product portfolio to include flat products and to increase production capacity, making the plant a center of excellence for flat products in sub-Saharan Africa.
The new vertical-curve, single-strand slab caster started producing the first slabs, which are rolled by the new hot-strip mill. The hot-rolled coils will feed the downstream pipe mills of the Barnes Group (Scaw Metals controlling shareholder) and other flat-product consuming companies.
The complex also includes a new reheating furnace featuring PHL firing logic to ensure high furnace flexibility, maximum energy efficiency, and reduced emissions.
This, together with a new, technologically advanced water-treatment plant, and a new, modern EAF melting scrap and DRI –that will be put in operation in the coming months– will ensure Green steel production.
