STEEL-CSN II

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The project would expand CSN's production facilities from about 2.4 to 4.4 million metric tons of raw steel per year to produce about 3.5 million tons of flat and non-flat steel products. The new facilities will include two calcining plants, two batteries of coke ovens, a large sinter plant and an oxygen plant, a 200 ton BOF vessel, one continuous 66 inch hot strip mill, a plate finishing line, two continuous 1.1 million TPY pickling lines, a 66 inch six stand tandem cold strip mill, batch and continuous annealing facilities, two temper mills, two cold strip finishing lines, a continuous 180,000 TPY galvanizing line, a painting line, a coil preparation line, two electrolytic tinning lines, two roll shops, railroad facilities and equipment and expansion of CSN's mining operations to 9.2 million tons per year of ore.