Deutsche Edelstahlwerke orders LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens

• Casting platform robot increases work safety

• LiquiRob is used for lancing the ladles

Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH has given Siemens Metals Technologies an order to supply a LiquiRob casting platform robot for its Siegen, Germany plant. The LiquiRob will be installed on the continuous billet caster, and in future will handle the lancing of the ladles. Until now this has been performed manually. As liquid steel can occasionally escape uncontrolled, the use of the LiquiRob will make casting operations significantly safer, since it will no longer be necessary to enter this hazardous area.

Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH is part of the Schmolz + Bickenbach Group and is one of the leading companies in the production and processing of stainless steel long products. Some 4,000 employees work in its Witten, Siegen, Krefeld, Hagen and Hattingen plants, which produce and process around one million metric tons of stainless steel per annum. In the Siegen Plant, the steel is produced in an electric arc furnace and is cast on a six-strand casting plant into billets with diameters ranging from 138 to 265 millimeters.

Siemens developed LiquiRob to improve occupational safety and the quality of measurement under the harsh operating conditions encountered in the iron and steel industry. At the moment, six systems are working in continuous casting plants around the world, plus one on an electric arc furnace and another on a converter.

The Metals Technologies Business Unit, based in Linz, Austria, is one of the world's leading lifecycle partners for the metallurgical industry. The Business Unit offers a comprehensive portfolio of technologies, modernization solutions, products and services, as well as integrated automation and environmental solutions for complete plant lifecycles.

This press release and a press picture is available at www.siemens.com/press/pi/PR2014110036PDEN

(LiquiRob casting platform robot from Siemens)

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