SCM Project Manager, Steve Shillito, reports on the progress so far in 2015 for successful Sarclad SCM installations, upgrades and orders received;

“The market place still continues to be difficult particularly where new Capital Expenditure Projects are concerned, but the trend for new technology upgrades to existing older SCM units continues and is an even more desirable option thanks to the exceptional reliability the new Single Board Data Logger (SBDL) technology has provided”.

Since March 2015:

New SCM orders received for the following Steel plants

• Dillinger Huttenwerk CC4 & CC5 (Germany) – Replaces SCM for CC4 supplied in 1998. To be installed Aug/Sept 2015
• WISCO Caster 2 at Steelmaking Plant No.3 (China) – Installation planned Q4 2015
• Zhangjiang Rongsheng CC5 (China) – Installation planned for Q1 2016

Existing SCMs were upgraded and successfully installed at the following Steel Plants:

• HKM (Duisburg – Germany) Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2000
• HKM (Duisburg – Germany) Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2004
• Erdemir CC1 (Turkey) – Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2001
• Erdemir CC2 (Turkey) – Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2001
• TATA Port Talbot Works (UK) – Upgrades to 2 SCMs supplied in 1992
• Arcelor Mittal Gent CC2 (Belgium) – Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2007

New Upgrade orders received:

• Essar Algoma (Canada) – Upgrade to SCM supplied in 2010. Installation Q4 2015

New SCMs supplied in 2015 awaiting installation:

• Hadeed (Saudi Arabia) – 2^nd unit on site. Installation planned September 2015
• Usiminas (Ipatinga Brazil) – 1^st SCM unit on site compliments to existing In-Chain system. Installation planned September 2015
• Jingtang 1650 caster (China) – Installation planned August/September 2015
• Jingtang 2150 caster (China) – Installation planned August/September 2015