SMS Demag Commissions EAF in Russia

SMS Demag, a division of the Germany company SMS group, has commissioned an X-Melt electric steel plant with an annual capacity of one million tons of steel at the Polevskoy location for OAO Severskij Tube, located in Russia.

The SMS Demag supply scope includes an Arcess 135-ton electric arc furnace, scrap facility and equipment, the gas cleaning plant, an additive supply system and injection systems for lime, carbon and filter dust.

Following the successful commissioning of the ladle furnace and the continuous bloom caster, Severskij Tube has continued to implement its extensive investment program.