National Iranian Steel Company (NISCO), which belongs to the state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO), has ordered a six-strand billet casting machine from SMS Concast AG, a company of SMS group. The plant will be part of a newly built EAF-based meltshop and designed for an annual capacity of more than 800,000 tons of billets.
The new steel complex built in Miyaneh, a city in the province of East Azerbaijan in the north-west of Iran, is expected to serve as a basis for the industrial development of the province.
SMS Concast will supply latest technology to achieve the specified quality and productivity targets in the shortest possible time. The six-strand caster will produce billets of low, medium and high-carbon steels, among others for rebar production.
The six-strand Concast CONVEX CCS casting machine will have a casting radius of nine meters and produce billets of 130, 150 and 200 millimeters square in lengths ranging between six and twelve meters.
The casting machine will come with the SMS Concast-developed CONVEX mold, a frequently used technology in the market.
