Pittsburgh — Siemens today announced that it was awarded a contract by Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) to modernize its existing 3-strand bloom / beam blank casting machine at its Columbia City, Ind., plant.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. is the nation's fifth largest producer of carbon steel products, based on production capacity in the nation, employing approximately 3,300 persons. The company operates five electric-furnace mini-mills with total steel production capacity expected to reach 6 million tons per year in 2007.
The Metals Technologies Division of Siemens will provide engineering, equipment and advisory services with SDI providing the turnkey installation. The scope of the project will include the addition of a fourth strand; implementation of new sizes 7” sq. and 8”x10” ; second containment segments for various sizes; torch machine relocation and travel extension; implementation of Siemens VAI continuous straightening on all strands; hydraulic and electric / automation equipment.
This plant upgrade will increase SDI's caster production output and result in the implementation of casting new section sizes. The project is scheduled for completion by the third quarter of 2007.
SDI produces merchant bars, engineered bar products, wide-flange beams, rails, and flat rolled steel. Finishing facilities in Butler and Jeffersonville, Ind., produce pickled, cold-rolled, galvanized, and painted flat-roll steel.
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In the U.S., Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. represents the I&S Group within Siemens AG. I&S is the systems and solutions integrator for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation and operation across the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products, systems and process technologies to enhance productivity and improve the competitiveness of companies in metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2005, I&S employed a total of 31,700 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 5.390 billion. For more information, please visit:
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Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8 billion and employs 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States:
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