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Second blast furnace fired up at ThyssenKrupp CSA in Brazil
Dec 21, 2010
Blast furnace 2 at the ThyssenKrupp CSA steel mill in Santa Cruz/Rio de Janeiro state was fired up on December 16, 2010 - five months after blast furnace 1, which is now producing over 6,500 metric tons hot metal per day, close to its full capacity. "I expect the ramp-up of our second blast furnace to be just as successful and that next fiscal year the plant will be able to operate at its full capacity," said Edwin Eichler, the ThyssenKrupp AG Executive Board member responsible for the Materials division.
The startup phase for blast furnace 2 was completed after only two days, and processing of the hot metal into slabs began on Saturday.
In addition to blast furnace 1, the two 330 t converters have been in operation since early September and early November. The first slab was produced on September 7. Slabs from Brazil have now arrived in Duisburg and Mobile/Alabama; once full capacity is reached, 3 million tons of slabs per year will be shipped to Alabama and 2 million tons to the German processing plants. "We weren't expecting the material to be of such excellent quality in the first phase," said Eichler. "The slabs even met the high requirements of tinplate production."
The first blast furnace at ThyssenKrupp CSA in Brazil was fired up in July 2010. When starting up new blast furnaces it is unavoidable and standard procedure worldwide for the hot metal produced in the initial phase to be cast into cooling basins where it solidifies. ThyssenKrupp notified the Brazilian licensing authorities of this in advance. During casting temporary dust emissions occur. At no time was there any danger to the health of employees or residents. Since the startup of the first converter in the new steel mill all emissions have been within the limits set by the Brazilian environmental authorities.
With an investment budget of EUR 5.2 billion, the new integrated iron and steel mill built by ThyssenKrupp in the state of Rio de Janeiro is the biggest industrial investment project in Brazil in the past ten years and the first major steel mill to be built in the country since the mid-1980s.
The Brazilian iron ore producer Vale holds a share of 26.87% in the subsidiary ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico. The project includes the construction of a state-of-the-art plant complex with its own port terminal for importing coal and exporting the slabs, raw material handling facilities, coke plant, sinter plant, two blast furnaces, a BOF melt shop
and a power plant.
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Second blast furnace fired up at ThyssenKrupp CSA in Brazil
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