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The basic oxygen steelmaking operation is comprised of three vessels tapping 150 tonne heats of low-carbon, HSLA and alloy steels.
Each year over 500 thousand tonnes of scrap steel is recycled into new steel in the steelmaking shop.
Steelmaking is supported by two ladle metallurgy stations, equipped with ladle reheat furnaces.
Two continuous casters have a total annual output of about 2 million tonnes of slabs and blooms:
Slabs produced are 240 mm thick and 1016-2032 mm wide.
Blooms are thicker and narrower than slabs (330 mm thick/600 mm wide) and are ultimately used to produce bar.
