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Last of four converters started up in January receives final acceptance in April • Shut-down work took only 33 instead of 42 days • High-temperature creep-resistant materials and a special cooling design ensure a long service life • Larger volume reduces less slopping In April, Indian steelmaker Jindal South West Steel Ltd. (JSW Steel) issued …
• New system automatically loads coil onto vertical compacting system • Novel approach ensures denser coils • New unloading station design French stainless steel wire rod producer Ugitech has awarded the final acceptance certificate to Primetals Technologies for its custom engineering solution to upgrade and automate the compacting and coil handling process in the company’s …
Greater cross-section reduction cuts conversion costs • Mill processes up to 110 metric tons of blooms per hour • New line entirely or partly dispenses with downstream processing steps Acciaierie Venete S.p.A. has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for a blooming mill extensively modernized by Primetals Technologies at its Camin, Italy location. …
• Plant is used to quench and temper OCTG grades Primetals Technologies received the final acceptance certificate from Borusan Mannesmann Pipe U.S. for a heat treatment plant installed in the company´s new ERW (Electric Resistance Welded) pipe mill in Baytown, Texas, USA. The equipment is used to quench and temper oil country tubular grades (OCTG), …
• Annual production capacity of 2.4 million metric tons year Siemens Metals Technologies received the final acceptance certificate for a continuous slab casting machine with an annual capacity of 2.4 million metric tons from the Chinese Maanshan Iron & Steel Corporation (Maanshan). The two-strand caster CCM 3 was set up in the company’s BOF steel …
• Production capacity more than doubles • Less than two years to first coil • Final strip thickness down to 1,8 millimeters • Tolerances are further reduced In February, Siemens received the final acceptance certificate for the extension of an aluminum hot strip mill of Novelis Korea Ltd. in Ulsan. The first coil had been …
• Annual capacity of one million tons of stainless steels • Plant produces stainless steel grades up to AISI 400 At the beginning of April, Siemens Metals Technologies received the final acceptance certificate for the stainless steel works owned by Outokumpu Stainless in the USA. The plant was constructed in Calvert, Alabama, and went into …