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TimkenSteel's new jumbo bloom caster to reach full production next year
TimkenSteel plans to ramp up production of its new jumbo bloom caster to 60% over the course of 2015 and to reach full capacity by the middle of 2016, Kallanish learns. The $200m caster has an annual production capacity of 1.1m tons of special bar quality (SBQ) blooms.
The new vertical caster, which was supplied by SMS Concast and was formally commissioned in April, is the centre of a quarter-billion dollar investment by the company at its Faircrest Steel Pl…
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