Abinsk Electric Steel Works

Electric
arc furnace
melt Shop

Annual
capacity over

0

tons

The metal production procedure is automated: Charging buckets are used to load scrap into the furnace. Next, smelting takes place according to the standard in-process algorithm to ensure consistent high quality. Quicklime that is also made at the AESW is used as a flux.

Despite the automation, the melting process is under the constant control of metallurgists. Where necessary, they promptly adjust the process.

After the SMF, the melt is poured into the 'furnace-ladle' station. Here the liquid metal is reduced (deoxidized). Special additives are used to improve physical and chemical properties (alloying), and the metal gets refined to remove unnecessary impurities (refining).

In order to obtain steel of a certain composition and a given quality, the specialists do regular sampling during the finishing and measure the temperature of the metal. Next stage: the overhead crane transfers the ladle with molten steel to the continuous casting machine (CCM).

By means of a slide gate in the bottom part of the ladle, the metal is poured into a buffer tank, and then it spreads through the columns of the copper water-cooled crystallizer. The use of this technology ensures better quality of billets without any defect that could worsen their piercing properties.

After the billets are cooled down and crystallized, they are cut, marked and transported to a walking-beam cooler to ensure the preservation of long rolled products straightness without twisting, slide-free transportation (to avoid scratches), and the final cooling of the product.

Product range

Steel billet 130 x 130 mm

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Steel billet 150 x 150 mm

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Steel billet 150 x 180 mm

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Steel billet 200 x 200 mm

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Steel grades

SAE 1065

SAE 1070

SAE 1075

SAE 1090

25G2S

A500S

A240S

S235JR

SV-08G2S

SV-08A

SV-08AA

V500V

St1sp

St1ps

St2sp

St2ps

St3sp

St3ps

St4sp

St4ps

St5sp

S500W

WS221

SAE 1005

SAE 1006

SAE 1008

SAE 1010

SAE 1012

SAE 1015

SAE 1030

Dimensions

Cross section, mm

130X130

Length, m

12

Cross section, mm

150X150

Length, m

9–12

Cross section, mm

150X180

Length, m

9–12

Cross section, mm

200X200

Length, m

9–12

The AESW performs steel smelting using the state-of-the-art arc 130 ton steel-melting furnace (SMF). For its operation, an effective combination of electrical and chemical energy is used. As a result, the exit temperature of the metal reaches 1,580—1,620 °C.

Despite the automation, the melting process is under the constant control of metallurgists. Where necessary, they promptly adjust the process.

After the SMF, the melt is poured into the 'furnace-ladle' station. Here the liquid metal is reduced (deoxidized). Special additives are used to improve physical and chemical properties (alloying), and the metal gets refined to remove unnecessary impurities (refining).

In order to obtain steel of a certain composition and a given quality, the specialists do regular sampling during the finishing and measure the temperature of the metal. Next stage: the overhead crane transfers the ladle with molten steel to the continuous casting machine (CCM).

After the billets are cooled down and crystallized, they are cut, marked and transported to a walking-beam cooler to ensure the preservation of long rolled products straightness without twisting, slide-free transportation (to avoid scratches), and the final cooling of the product.