Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that the new sinter plant No. 2 supplied for Taiwan-based Dragon Steel Corporation recently commenced production. The new sinter plant was built as part of the steelmaker's plans to expand into the flat steel market. The sintering machine is able to produce over 11,600 mt per day and 3.8 million mt of sinter per year. With the new sinter plant, the company's total sinter output exceeds 6 million mt of sinter per year.
Dragon Steel Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based China Steel Corporation Group, is in the process of completing the second stage of a two-stage campaign to build a completely new integrated iron and steel works in the Taichung harbor area in order to expand its steel output by 5.2 million mt of flat steel products within 2013.
Within the scope of this expansion project, Siemens has supplied and started up two sinter plants, two blast furnaces each with a hot metal output of 2.5 million mt per year, and three two-strand slab casters with a total production capacity of more than five million mt of high-quality slabs. The second blast furnace was started up in March of the current year.
