The six-strand billet caster of Feralpi Siderurgica in Lonato del Garda in the Brescia Province, currently has an installed annual capacity of 1,1 million metric t of billets with a square cross sections of 140 x 140 mm. It produces medium carbon, carbon and low alloyed steels for the construction industry. Within the revamping project, the casting machine will be equipped with a new DiaMold high-speed casting molds for billet casters, characterized by tapered mold tubes and open bottom-mold corners to reduce strand friction. The DynaFlex hydraulic oscillator with online and flexible adjustment of the moldoscillation parameters serves to improve strand-surface quality. The scope of supply also includes a new secondary cooling and a dummy bar head. Primetals will be responsible for the basis, detail engineering and supply of the above components.
Feralpi Group is one of the most important steel suppliers to the Italian construction industry. The group operates four subsidiary companies in Italy and runs production and sales locations in Europe and North Africa. Feralpi Siderurgica was founded in 1968 and is thus the oldest member of the Feralpi Group. The company is today one of the leading suppliers of reinforcing steel, wire rod, reinforcement meshes and the associated derivatives in Italy.
_{(Source: Primetals Technologies, Limited)}