STEEL-COSIPA II

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The proposed expansion of COSIPA's facilities would increase production from about 2.3 to 3.5 million metric tons of raw steel per year to produce about 2.8 million tons of flat products. The new facilities will include a new pier and additional loading and unloading facilities; additional raw materials handling equipment; a third sinter plant; a second BOF shop with two 120-ton vessels and two continuous slab casting machines; remotoring of the finishing stands of the hot strip mill; an additional slab reheat furnace for the 4,100 mm plate mill together with an additional cooling bed and normalizing furnace; a new pickling line; a new 5-stand tandem cold reduction mill; a new temper mill; lines for coil inspection, shearing and electrolytic cleaning; and associated maintenance and auxiliary facilities, including a new roll shop for the cold mill, high and low pressure boilers, one turbo-generator with substation and a fourth oxygen plant.