ECOACERO, an ESTRELLA Group company, has placed an order for a new rebar mill with a heat treater with North American locations. It will be located nearby Santo Domingo, in Dominican Republic, for serving the growing local and regional construction industry.
The upcoming ECOACERO facility with a rebar mill from SMS group will introduce a versatile range of rebar to the market, tailored to meet the demands of different construction industry segments, manufactured with state-of-the-art technology from SMS, and adhering to rigorous international quality standards.
The complete project, conceptualized with a sustainability philosophy, consists of two phases, with the forthcoming integration of a steel production, involving a melt shop with a continuous casting machine, from the scrap processing.
The scope of delivery of the SMS includes a reheating furnace for billets, feeding a continuous single-strand rolling mill. Products are finished on a MEERdrive® finishing block, a machine that reduces CO₂ emissions and boots plant efficiency. Water boxes in the production process enable steel with improved mechanical properties through quenching and self-tempering of the bars, minimizing the use of expensive alloying elements in the melt shop.
The second phase involves a modern electric arc furnace (EAF), high electrical efficient and designed with burner and oxygen injector technology to reduce CO₂ emissions and operating costs.
The scrap charging-based electric arc furnace will be equipped with the latest SMS technologies for safe and automatic operation aimed at reducing the carbon footprint. The entire melting-refining-casting process line is monitored by X-Pact® Level 2 system.
The plant commissioning is scheduled for the beginning of 2025, pointing to ECOACERO as the one of the largest and modern steel companies in the Caribbean and Central America.
This SMS group press release can be found in its original form here.
