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for almost 30 years. The modernization Spain has been producing welded cuptatiure sitior arum et litaquam et
of the sizing section is the second steel tubes for various industries since asinus experferorum repe et es del ilite
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upgrade completed in 2024.” sandae preperes mod et viduci occus nit, solora dolesecti am deratem quam,
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Section Solutions, SMS group: “The volorescia ant assit ipsandi idest que Officid minis eos pratem earum qui
modernization of the sizing section is ipis doloremporem rem quiam quas tessim id utas iure nisin non reicaernatis
the next important step in our long- exerumquatur aut volor moluptia il et re, alit od maio magnias at.
standing partnership with Tuflesa. By tem commolu ptatustrum aut audantium
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solution. This will help Tuflesa ensure laccabo. Ut pe verumquost, volenitam

SMS GROUP SUPPLIES HYBAR WITH A SECOND CMT
®
MILL FOR THE WORLD’S FIRST TWIN CMT 550 SOLUTION
®
IN OSCEOLA, UNITED STATES

SUMMARY in Osceola, Arkansas (U.S.). Installed The new CMT® 550 mill is engineered
alongside the existing SMS CMT® 550 to create an energy-efficient steelmaking
mill, the new facility will create the system by integrating steelmaking,
• This greenfield order for a new world’s first twin CMT® system and casting, and rolling into a single,
CMT ® 550 mill will expand Hybar’s increase Hybar’s annual reinforcing bar exceptionally reliable process. SMS will
bar production by 630,000 tons per production capacity by 630,000 short supply the complete CMT® mill from
year tons. Groundbreaking for the project is a single source. The new mill expands
• The new CMT® 550 mill enables twin expected to take place in late 2026 with Hybar’s reinforcing bar production by
CMT® mill operation by leveraging start-up scheduled twenty-four months an additional 630,000 short tons per
the existing infrastructure of the SMS later. year, producing bars from 12.4 to 35
CMT® 550 mill already in operation millimeters in one to four-ton bundles.
• The integrated SMS technology By integrating an additional CMT® 550 The plant will also include future
package enables high productivity mill at the Osceola site in Arkansas, the provision for VCC® (Vertical Compact
and low operating costs and boasts twin CMT® mill solution enables optimal Coiler) technology for coils up to eight
one of the industry’s lowest carbon use of transport logistics and a shared tons.
footprints connection to the same renewable power
source. Utilizing the site’s 105-megawatt The meltshop features an electric arc
solar park, supported by a 160-megawatt- furnace based on the proven EDGE
ybar LLC, a scrap metal recycling hours battery storage system, mill DC design platform and a twin ladle
and steel production company operation is designed to achieve one furnace station, providing high electrical
Hfocused on environmentally of the lowest carbon footprints in the efficiency, operational flexibility, and
sustainable steel production, has again long-product sector. Compared to a consistent steel quality. The X-Pact®
selected SMS group to supply a second conventional minimill, carbon emissions AURA, an advanced electronics system,
continuous minimill technology order are expected to be reduced by up to 35 provides the electrical power feed to the
(CMT® 550) for its steelmaking complex percent. melting unit, enabling high productivity

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