Danieli Service was selected by Tata Steel for complete laser checking and caster alignment restoration of their three continuous slab caster machines (CCM#1 not Danieli design, CCM#2 and CCM#3 manufactured by Danieli Davy Distington) at Jamshedpur, India, company informed via its newsletter
All these activities were performed during the casters’ scheduled shut-downs. The target was to improve the final product quality by reducing the number and dimension of cracks, as well as to minimize breakouts, maintenance activities and costs.
Tata’s slab casters were measured and re-aligned to restore the design tolerance.
Tata Steel has manufacturing units at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and Kalinganagar, Odisha with production capacities of 10 MnTPA and 3 MnTPA, respectively. In FY19, the company initiated a 5 MnTPA expansion project at Kalinganagar to enhance its cumulative capacity to 8 MnTPA.
In FY19, total deliveries at Tata Steel Limited (Standalone) were at 12.69 MnT (previous year: 12.15 MnT), recording an increase of 4.5% over the previous year.
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