Jun 18 2014
Belgian steel producer ArcelorMittal Gent has ordered a LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens Metals Technologies to be installed on continuous slab caster CC2.
LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens
It will perform a number of potentially dangerous tasks automatically, including taking samples, measuring temperatures and hydrogen levels at the distributor, as well as ladle lancing. In future, the ladle shroud will also be manipulated with the aid of the LiquiRob. The new casting platform robot is due to go on stream by September 2014, and will also improve working safety conditions at the CC2.
ArcelorMittal Gent's integrated production plant is part of the Flat Carbon Europe Division. The company produces some five million metric tons of flat steel a year, for example, for the automotive and domestic appliance industries. The steel is produced in LD converters with a tap weight of 300 metric tons, and cast by two continuous slab casters. The CC2 casting plant has an annual production capacity of three million metric tons. It produces slabs with a thickness of 220 millimeters in widths ranging from 950 to 2,000 millimeters.
The casting platform robot from Siemens will handle tasks on continuous slab caster CC2 that have previously been performed by the plant personnel. This will increase safety at work and improve the reproducibility of measurements. In 2013 Siemens modernized the slag stopper system on two ArcelorMittal Gent LD converters, as well as the drive technology in the finishing train of the hot rolling mill.