Main Switzerland
Activities
Overview
An overview of some products and activities of Main are named below:
- slag treatment and reuse as building- and refill material
- scrap and preparation
- recuperation of heat
- direct casting and rolling of steel strip Mainstrip
- direct casting and rolling of billets Mainlong
- pyrolysis of biomass for Crucible Carbon
- recuperation of energy with Mainpower
- direct conversion of heat into electricity by TEG-modules
- consultation, expertise, due diligence, and networking over all continents
Mainstrip
Mainstrip is a new steel strip casting technology for strip production of 0.5—4mm and a width of up to 1700mm, based on the twin roll process.
Mainly
- for mini steel mills, interested to produce 0,5—1 Mio t/year of steel strip
- for Integrated mills for surplus steel and special strip grades
With particular advantages on
- the compactness of installation and small space requirements
- low investment costs
- compact operating team
- reduced maintenance- and spare parts costs
- substantial lower power requirement, down to 10%
- substantial lower CO2 exposure, below 10%
To produce the best quality of
- carbon grades
- alloyed grades
- stainless steel grades
- new twip- and trip qualities
- Si grades
Local Markets
operating close to local markets and diversifying to the strip side, avoiding long and expensive transportation of scrap and coils to serve customers within hours to their particular needs and request.
Available to be purchased
Mainstrip is available to be taken over by investors, steel mills or groups, already active in this field. It is for works with the intention to become active in twin roll casting, or machine builders or institutes, interested to play an important role, in this coming market.
In each case, the cooperation or support of Main, with the respective specialist can be secured.
The best cooperation
The founder of Main, H. Marti, is interested to find the best cooperation, to secure this outstanding and very valuable technology for the time after his retreat.
Status
- granted active patents
- available water model and submerged nozzles
- results of KTI 1 / CTI 1 + KTI 2 / CTI 2, partially funded by the Swiss government: Investigation and calculation, water modelling and hot testing by Lucerne University of Applied Science and Tata RD+T Technology Center, Teesside GB and Main
- the layout of Mainsstrip installation
- drawings of plants and detailed drawings of machine groups
- a detailed description of the plant with motorists and an electrical description
- specification of Mainsstrip plant
- overall specification of a mini steel mill for Mainstrip plant
- publications
- valuable international network
- projects in various continents
- software and model to calculate costs and ROI of Mainstrip, taking into account local costs of media, power material and labour
