The first self-made 220×1, 600mm stainless arc-shape slab continuous casting machine has produced the first tap of billet at Taishan Iron and Steel Group, which lies in the province of Shandong, China. The single-strand caster has a capacity of 800,000tpy. The 20th China Metallurgical Construction Corp. of MCC, as the project contractor, took seven months to install over 2400tns of equipment, almost 90tns of pipes and lay around 35kms of cable since the project broke ground on 8 September 2007.
