310 heats for a total of 24,850 tons, with 13 flying tundish changes and 5 mold changes, producing 32 different grades of high-quality, high-carbon steel (Georgetown Steel Corporation, USA, 1992).

Casting of peritectic grades at 4.2 mpm with a 2-strand Thin Slab Caster (Algoma, Canada, since 1997).

1000-900 °C slab automatic inspection and grinding plant in-line with the conticaster (Outokumpu Avesta, Sweden, 1998).

213 days from order to startup: 6-strand high-speed billet conticaster for special steels, supplied on a turnkey basis (Ispat Ruhrort Mittal Steel, Germany, 1998).

305 mpm drawing speed for 2 to 5 mm dia brass bars (Trafilerie Carlo Gnutti, Italy, 1998).

26 heats in 23 working hours with the 150-t Twin Cathode DC EAF with 90% of hot DRI in charge and 42 min of power-on time: World record in DRI melting (Hylsa Monterrey, Mexico, 1999).

98.1% steel in mold one-year reliability record; 41 heats per day; 1030 heats per month; 898 ladles sequence length record (USS Edgar Thomson, PA, twostrand conventional slab caster, 1999-2000).

50 Euro/t savings in production cash cost of special steels by full in-line treatments (ABS Luna, Italy, 2000).

70 to 100 t/h per strand conticasting productivity for special engineering steels through the H3 “Qualicaster” casting (high quality, high production, high efficiency) (ABS Luna, Italy, 2000).

616 heats casting sequence (corresponding to 1.1 Mtpy, with a 99.8% prime quality rate) producing special steel round blooms (10-m radius 6-strand caster) (Baoshan Steel, P.R of China, 2000).

126.6 mps all-time production speed record (North Star Steel wire rod mill, USA, 2000).

49 days only caster shut down for complete caster rebuilt and conversion from curved to vertical curved design (SGA2 two-strand slab caster in TKS, Beekerwerth plant, Germany, 2000).

100 cuts at a time in a slitting line for aluminium (Hydro Aluminium Grevenbroich, Germany, 2001).

4.5-mm-dia wire rod rolled at 105 mps thanks to the TMB technology (Amsteel II, Malaysia, 2001).

8 mpm thin slab casting, with stable process and excellent product quality (Danieli Pilot Plant, Italy, 2001).

56 strips slit at a speed of up to 800 mpm (Yun Cheng Aluminium, 2003).

400 mpm strip pickling speed through Turboflo® technology (Corus IJmuiden, The Netherlands, 2003).

1500 mpm edge-trimming speed (Nangshan Group, PRC, 2003).

2.3 mpm max casting speed with 230 mm thick slab, in 42 m metallurgical length 2-stand caster with 61% ULC grades production (Posco Guangyang Korea).

1165 ladles record sequence length: (Corus, Llanwern, South Wales, 2-strand slab caster).

Asymmetric slab casting: single strand 1400 to 2725 mm wide slab or 850 to 1300 mm wide twin asymmetric slabs (Corus Port Talbot, UK).

740 ladles variable-mix record sequence length during which there were 2007 slab-width changes, 147 steel grade changes and 54 tundish changes (USS Edgar Thomson, PA, two-strand conventional slab caster).

42 heats/day on a 55-t EAF (Deacero, Mexico, 2005).

3-Mtpy annual production with a 2-strand Thin Slab Caster (Tanghsan Iron & Steel, P.R. of China, 2005). 3.25-Mtpy reached in 2007.

Casting of high-silicon grades (up to 3.2% Si) at 4.2 mpm with a 2-strand Thin Slab Caster (Benxi, P.R. of China, 2005).

Casting of X65 and X70 API grades for Arctic applications with a single strand Thin Slab Caster (EFS, Egypt, 2005).

3,250 mm wide slab casting at high speed (Shaoguang, P.R. of China, 2005).

30 days to carry out a rolling mill upgrade, including the removal of nine old stands, rebuilding of civil works, installation of ten new stands and plant startup) in (Nucor Darlington #2 bar mill, SC, USA, 2005).

50 mps bar-discharging speed onto the cooling bed (Danieli Pilot Plant, Italy, 2006).

400 mpm drawing speed for copper tubes breakdown chain-track line (Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube, P.R. of China, 2006).

250-tph DRI plant, with reactor’s internal diameter of 7 m, the largest ever designed (Jindal Steel & Power, India, 2006-2008).

1,019,271 t of plate rolled after only 12 months from the plate mill startup (Anyang, P.R. of China, 2007).

6.1 mpm cast speed for 70-mm thick thin slab of extra-low and low carbon steel grades (Ezz Flat Steel, Egypt, 2007).

Si-steel grades cast on TSC machine, Si content up to 3.5% (Benxi, P.R. of China, 2007).

4 months ahead of scheduled time, the most technologically advanced caster for quality slabs in China was put in operation (Baosteel, P.R. of Cina, 2007).

Casting of 700-mm round blooms in special engineering steels (ABS, Italy, 2007