🔥 Puyang Steel's Slab Caster Successfully Hot-Tested 🔥

According to the China Heavy Machinery Research Institute, recently, the high-speed slab caster project for Puyang Steel's No.1 steelmaking furnace, supplied by China Heavy Machinery's EP, has been successfully hot-tested.

The original No.1 slab caster was designed and supplied by a foreign company in 2013 and has been running well since it was put into operation, with a hot delivery qualification rate of almost 100%, creating good economic benefits for Puyang.

In 2022, due to the adjustment of the capacity of the refining furnace in Puyang's No.1 steelmaking, the original No.1 caster could not meet the production capacity requirements. Therefore, Puyang Steel carried out a speed increase and equipment upgrade and transformation for the No.1 machine.

The upgrade of the No.1 machine is the fourth large-scale slab caster general contracting project after the successful commissioning of the two-machine two-stream slab caster in 2020, the 420×2300 extra-thick slab caster in the third steelmaking of Puyang in 2022, and the double-stream slab caster of Puyang Steel in 2023. The caster can produce slabs with a thickness of 150–180mm and a width of 1000–2300mm.