Concast AG, Zurich, Switzerland, and its subsidiary Concast America Inc., Pittsburgh; USA; have been awarded a major contract from Gerdau Ameristeel to modernize its five-strand 26 ft. radius billet caster in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.

The project calls for Concast to replace the technological core of the caster as well as all downstream equipment.

The full upgrade comprises new dual cantilever tundish cars, cartridge meter mould assemblies with electromagnetic mould stirrers, electromechanical short lever oscillation, intensive multi-zone CONMAX secondary spray cooling, roller apron/strand guides, CCS withdrawal straighteners, torch cutting machines, all discharge equipment including a turnover cooling bed as well as full automation via Concast Systems group.