Steel Plant
Steel Plant is the largest steel producer in the Czech Republic. Steel is made by oxygen process in 4 tandem furnaces with the production over 3mill t per year. After tapping steel is finished to target parameters for casting in an equipment for out-of-furnace processing, i.e. in ladle furnaces.
Steel is here homogenised, additionally alloyed to the exact chemical composition, heated to the appropriate casting temperature and desulphurized, and modification of inclusions is performed using filled profiles. After this out-of-furnace processing molten steel is sequentially cast on three continuous casters into billets, slabs or small slabs. All assortment of steel and concast slabs and billets meet requirements of EN ISO 9001:2000, the plant has been long time certified acc. EMS standards by auditor company RW TÜV according EN ISO 14001. In 2003, the Czech Work Safety Office authorized Steel Plant to use a „Safe Plant“ designation.