Description

Cockerill Sambre constitutes, with the companies Eurogal, TDM and CMP, the Operational Unit Wallonia of the Arcelor Group. First world iron and steel Group, Arcelor was born officially at the beginning of the year 2002 from fusion between Arbed (Luxembourg), Aceralia (Spain) and Usinor (France). It employs some 98.000 people, carries out an annual sales turnover of almost 26 billion euros and product of about 40,2 million tons steel per annum. The Operational Unit Wallonia represents the pole of the activities "flat Steels with the carbon " of the Group in Wallonia. It produces thin, mainly covered flat steels and has a broad range of products, intended for very many branches of industry. Large companies of the car, domestic or industrial equipment, packing and building trust him. The strategic orientations announced at the beginning of the year 2003 by Arcelor for its hot factories will hot lead to the stop of the iron and steel activities inhabitants of Li?ge in 2009, in coherence with the principles of social and environmental management of the Group. Of long date, Cockerill Sambre chose to primarily develop its products with high value added by developing the downstream activities of cold rolling and coating. Today, the Operational Unit Wallonia constitutes the most significant factory downstream of the Group and aims at becoming the pole of excellence in the manufacture of sheets covered within Arcelor. The strategic orientations of the Group for the downstream consolidate this ambition.

Product description:

Shown here is a slab being cast. Molten steel is poured continuously into a bottomless mold. As it is drawn, the steel comes into contact with the water-cooled interior surface of the mold, and begins to solidify. The cast metal is then drawn downwards, guided by a series of rollers, while it continues to cool. By the time it reaches the end, the steel is completely solidified, and is immediately cut into the required lengths. This produces what are known as semi-finished products. These can be either slabs, which have a rectangular cross-section, or blooms or billets, which have a square cross-section. They are the blanks which are used to form the finished product.