Baosteel Orders Remarkably Powerful Bow-Type Caster to Produce the World’S Largest Slab Sections

Chinese steel producer Baosteel Zhanjiang has awarded Primetals Technologies a contract for the engineering, supply, and startup of a bow-type 2-strand continuous caster for the production of extraordinarily thick slabs. The caster, designed to be one of the world’s most powerful, will be implemented at Baosteels’s plant in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province. It will produce slabs of record-breaking sections, measuring up to 2,700 millimeters in width at 450 millimeters in thickness.