Tokyo Steel Orders New Danieli Caster for Billets and Blooms

The new machine (CCM N.4) will be added to the DC Electric Arc Furnace shop, to produce billets and blooms for structural steel grades, in cross-sections from 170x170mm to 250x310mm, and product lengths from 2.8m up to 7.5m.
The caster will be engineered and manufactured by Danieli CentroMet. Design features will include: five strands, 10-m main radius, Hy-Power mould oscillators, secondary air-mist cooling with five independent zones, a rigid dummy bar for fast restranding, and modular withdrawal and straightening units.

The core of the new caster is the Danieli-patented Eco Power Mould, a technology that can achieve outstanding performances in terms of casting speed and cast product quality. The Eco Power Mould - the latest design evolution of the Danieli Power Mould family - has further improved the cooling capacity and reduced cooling water requirements, while incorporating lighter copper components, resulting in significant savings in equipment costs.

The Eco Power Mould technology will allow Tokyo Steel to achieve the required productivity rate in any casting conditions and for any product type.
Danieli Automation will supply all the electrical and automation systems, including the state-of-the-art 3Q package. The 3Q applications were developed specifically for the steel industry to guarantee safe, quick and consistent control of production. Some key components that will be applied to the new CCM are: real-time solidification modeling, real-time quality assessment, in-line operator assistance, advanced multi-touch operator interfaces and comprehensive web-based reporting.