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January 2012
Welcome to the first issue of 2012! The Jan/Feb edition of Steel Times International contains features on Raw Materials and Continuous Casting.
The Raw Materials section includes a report on the Intertech Pira 15th Annual Coke Summit, an article on combining coke and ironmaking methods to reduce emissions during production, and an overview of level sensors for raw materials and its application in Sail plants.
Continuous Casting includes articles on the 4th generation Danieli thin slab caster, and improved online water leakage detection and flow monitoring for caster rolls.
All this as well as reports from Stahl 2011, Metal-Expo 2011 and the usual round up of news and updates from around the globe.
Front cover pic courtesy of Tenova
News
News – OMK starts Russian heavy wide plate mill 2
Statistics & Events – Nov output up 1.1% 6
USA Update – US Steel’s promise on retaining jobs in Canada returns to haunt it 8
Latin America Update – Brazilian industry sees its profits decline 10
China Update – Large state-owned companies are losing their monopoly 12
India Update – Growth slows in H1 of FY’11/12 14
Raw materials
US metcoal industry untouched by recession – IntertechPira 15th Annual Coke Summit 17
Combining new coke and ironmaking methods to reduce emissions during production 21
An overview of level sensors for raw materials and its application in SAIL steel plants 26
The next generation coke oven machines 30
Demand for steelmaking inputs less volatile in US market 32
Continuous casting
4th-generation Danieli thin slab caster 35
New hybrid caster bearing on target to exceed 2Mt 36
Improved online water leakage detection and flow monitoring for caster rolls 37
Others
The philosopy and calculation of transformer protective relays settings for a coke plant 39
Stahl 2011 – Knowledge, Materials and Values 40
Metal-Expo 2011: Impressive autumn week of metals in Moscow 42
History: Pioneers of the Steel Industry: Part 7 Oxygen in Steelmaking 44