Compact Plant for Continuous Production of Bars and/or Profiles

Method for continuous production and packaging of bars and/or profiles, by a compact production plant as claimed in one or more of the previous claims, wherein the plant incorporates

• a steel plant station,
• a continuous casting station (3),
• a rolling mill station (6, 7, 8) directly linked to the continuous casting station (3),
• a finishing station,
• the method comprising the following stages:
• a) melting scrap to obtain liquid steel and secondary metallurgy operations in the steel plant station,
• b) casting the liquid steel by casting means in the continuous casting station (3)
• c) rolling the billets by means of several stands in the rolling mill station (6, 7, 8) directly linked to the continuous casting station (3),
• d) performing packaging operations of the bars and/or profiles by means of a packaging apparatus (9) in a finishing station,
• characterized in that
• said stages from a) to d) take place in succession without any interruption between one stage and the next and in that the packaging operations comprise a stage of cutting directly at commercial length the bars and/or profiles forming packs or bundles of a defined weight ready for sale.