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Siderurgica Mendes Junior (SMJ), which is strategically located in Southeast Brazil, is equipped with modern technological material. The steel making plant is equipped with an electric arc furnace 40/48 MVA and 84 MT/heat; a ladle furnace 13/16 MVA with electromagnetic stirer and inert gas injection through porous plug; a continuous casting machine four strands 130 x 130 mm and billet length of 15.7 m with an installed capacity of 570,000 MT/year.

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Siderurgica Mendes Junior (SMJ), which is strategically located in Southeast Brazil, is equipped with modern technological material. The steel making plant is equipped with an electric arc furnace 40/48 MVA and 84 MT/heat; a ladle furnace 13/16 MVA with electromagnetic stirer and inert gas injection through porous plug; a continuous casting machine four strands 130 x 130 mm and billet length of 15.7 m with an installed capacity of 570,000 MT/year.

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Author(s)

Eduardo Bezerra de Oliveira e Souza, Iran Oliveira de Medeiros and Jose Da Conceicao de Souza, Siderurgica Mendes Junior, Brazil

Publication/Event/Pages

Paper presented at WAI South American Technical Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Year

1992