On October 18, the first slabs from the new Brazilian steelworks of ThyssenKupp were unloaded at the Steinweg steel and metals terminal at Rotterdam Maasvlakte. The 396 slabs equal a total weight of almost 10,000 tonnes. The shipments will be raised to 70,000 ton each, arriving approximately every ten days by Panamax vessels from the port of Santa Cruz.
The terminal of C. Steinweg-Handelsveem can handle vessel up to a draught of 17 meters and is equipped with four bridge cranes with specialised spreaders for metals and coils and magnetic ones for slabs. The slabs are stacked ‘between the crane legs’, avoiding intra-terminal transport and allowing efficient transfer to hinterland modes of transport. These comprise of inland barges of ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven or trains to the Duisburg rolling and coating facilities of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, Germany’s biggest steel producer, where they will be processed into flat products for European auto manufacturers, for example.
Directly after production in Brazil, the slabs are tagged with an RFID chip that permits fully automatic handling on every part of the route. The chip contains essential information about the customer specific produced slab, allowing it to be identified, stored, transported and correctly processed all the way from Brazil via the Netherlands to Germany.
Steel mill
The new integrated mill of ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico began producing slabs at the start of September this year. The mill is situated in Rio de Janeiro state and represents the biggest industrial investment in Brazil in the past ten years and the first major steel mill to be built in the country since the mid-eighties. The investment project is of central importance to ThyssenKrupp’s growth strategy for premium carbon steel flat products in Europe and North America. After the full ramp-up – at present only one BF/BOF production line is in operation – the mill will produce a total of five million metric tons of high-quality, low-cost slabs a year. It is scheduled to reach full capacity at the end of fiscal 2011/2012. Three million tons of the total capacity will go to the ThyssenKrupp processing plant currently under construction near Mobile in Alabama, USA, while two million tons will be shipped to ThyssenKrupp’s plants in Germany..
The slabs are stacked ‘between the crane legs’ (see the grid), avoiding intra-terminal transport and allowing efficient transfer to hinterland modes of transport.
The terminal of C. Steinweg-Handelsveem can handle vessel up to a draught of 17 meters and is equipped with four bridge cranes with specialised spreaders for metals and coils and magnetic ones for slabs. The slabs are stacked ‘between the crane legs’, avoiding intra-terminal transport and allowing efficient transfer to hinterland modes of transport. These comprise of inland barges of ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven or trains to the Duisburg rolling and coating facilities of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, Germany’s biggest steel producer, where they will be processed into flat products for European auto manufacturers, for example.
Directly after production in Brazil, the slabs are tagged with an RFID chip that permits fully automatic handling on every part of the route. The chip contains essential information about the customer specific produced slab, allowing it to be identified, stored, transported and correctly processed all the way from Brazil via the Netherlands to Germany.
Steel mill
The new integrated mill of ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico began producing slabs at the start of September this year. The mill is situated in Rio de Janeiro state and represents the biggest industrial investment in Brazil in the past ten years and the first major steel mill to be built in the country since the mid-eighties. The investment project is of central importance to ThyssenKrupp’s growth strategy for premium carbon steel flat products in Europe and North America. After the full ramp-up – at present only one BF/BOF production line is in operation – the mill will produce a total of five million metric tons of high-quality, low-cost slabs a year. It is scheduled to reach full capacity at the end of fiscal 2011/2012. Three million tons of the total capacity will go to the ThyssenKrupp processing plant currently under construction near Mobile in Alabama, USA, while two million tons will be shipped to ThyssenKrupp’s plants in Germany..
The slabs are stacked ‘between the crane legs’ (see the grid), avoiding intra-terminal transport and allowing efficient transfer to hinterland modes of transport.