Stahl 2011:"Knowledge, Materials, Values"

On November 10, 2011 the CCD Congress Center Düsseldorf hosted the international annual conference STAHL 2011.
Since many years the steel institute VDEh and Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl (Economic Association Steel) have been jointly staging the annual conferences in Dusseldorf. The participants of the annual steel conferences include steel manufacturers and their customers and suppliers, as well as representatives of the business, political and scientific arenas.
More than 2600 participants engaged in discussions in the course of technical and political-economic steel dialogs and took the opportunity to exchange ideas and opinions.
Driven by the rising competition on the international steel market the significance of top technical performance and innovations is rising. This is also one of the reasons for the choice of this year's motto "Knowledge, Materials, Values".
Within the context of the technical-scientific steel dialogs, which also focused on the topics of optimizing steel production by way of new production and further processing facilities, Salzgitter Flachstahl also delivered a presentation on the company's own new continuous slab casting plant 4. The presentation was a joint effort involving authors from Salzgitter Flachstahl (Dr. Markus Schäperkötter, Dr. Peter Müller and Steffen Roßius) and SMS Siemag AG (Christian Geerkens, Martin Becker und Dr. Holger Beyer-Steinhauer), and was delivered by Dr. Markus Schäperkötter.

Dr. Markus Schäperkötter

The fourth continuous slab casting line at Salzgitter Flachstahl that was constructed by SMS Siemag came online in 2010. The single-strand casting line is a bow-type line designed for the production slabs with widths from 1,100 to 2,600 mm and thicknesses of 250 to 350 mm. The bow-type casting plant with a constant radius of 11.5 meters also allows the reliable and productive casting of steel grades susceptible to cracking. This concept minimizes tension in the strand shell and ensures very good surface quality.
The plant has a maximum throughput of 7.5 tons per minute and is also designed for sophisticated micro-alloyed steels, plate grades and acid gas resistant tube and pipe grades according to the API-5L and HIC standards. By achieving slab thicknesses of 350 mm the plant is capable of producing slabs for plate manufacturing in dimension ranges unprecedented to date that hold considerable future potential.