Restoring a Classic Caster - Making the Caster You Have Better

摘要

In an ever increasingly competitive environment for steel production, many continuous casters are in need of significant upgrades to their equipment in order to remain cost competitive. Such improvements can be strictly related to reducing costs by increasing equipment availability or, in other cases, be more focused on allowing a caster to increase casting speed, improve product quality or even potentially cast value-added product grades not previously attempted. The average age for a continuous slab casting machine in North America is over twenty-five years old, and capital spending on new casting machines has been limited for nearly fifteen years. What is a facility manager to do when years go by and it seems that capital request after capital request has fallen on deaf ears and the facilities continue to fall farther and farther behind the curve? Instead of throwing up your hands and resigning to the idea that you will have to wait another year and need to just patch things up until "things get better", consider improving what you have. Let SMS Millcraft restore your caster transforming it into something that better allows your facility to compete in this new global marketplace.