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Hyundai Hysco rolls for the first time laser-welded steel strip of difficult-to-join grades in a pickling line/tandem cold mill On June 20, 2013, after successful commissioning of an X-Pro® Laser Welder at Hyundai Hysco, SMS Siemag (www.smssiemag.com) received the final acceptance certificate for the plant. Since the end of March 2013, the machine has been joining higherstrength steel strips …
On June 27, Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. placed an order with SMS Siemag for the supply of a new 2,250 mm hot strip mill. The hot rolling mill is to be built at the new steelworks location in Zhanjiang in the south of China. The high-performance hot strip mill is designed for an annual capacity of …
PRO-TEC (PRO-TEC Coating Company), USA, successfully started hot commissioning of the continuous annealing line supplied by SMS Siemag and installed at the works in Leipsic, OH, USA. The line will be used to produce ultra-high strength steel strips. The line has been designed to produce almost 500,000 tpy of steel strips for high-strength automotive structural components, which improve the safety …
SMS Siemag to supply cold rolling and strip processing lines for record strip width to Benxi In April 2013, Chinese Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. (Benxi) placed an order with SMS Siemag, Germany, for the supply of a pickling line/tandem cold mill and two continuous annealing lines. In addition, MET/Con is providing technical support and know-how for the production …
Rolling and skin-passing mill at Esmech Equipment Esmech Equipment Pvt. Ltd., an Indian joint venture partner of SMS Siemag, Germany, has successfully put into operation the new reversing cold mill at Starcore Co. Ltd. in Rayong, Thailand. Starecore has now an additional production capacity of 200,000 t of high-grade cold rolled strip as well as a skin-passing capacity of 146,000 …
Düsseldorf, April 30, 2013 Production launch for first stage of construction The first strip was successfully rolled on the new 20-roll cold-rolling stand at Bahru Stainless SDN BHD in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. In the south of Malaysia, the Asian company Bahru Stainless SDN BHD, a subsidiary of the Spanish Acerinox group, has erected a new production facility for cold-rolled …
Düsseldorf, April 30, 2013 High precision copper rolling Ningbo Xingye Copper has placed an order with SMS Siemag, Germany, for the supply of two reversing cold rolling mills for copper and copper alloys. The company is part of Xingye Copper International Group Ltd., China. into the closed roll gap in order to reduce off-gage lengths at the …
POSCO SNNC, an internationally leading manufacturer of ferronickel, has contracted SMS Siemag, Germany, for the delivery of the world’s largest submerged arc furnace with six electrodes for the production of ferronickel in Gwangyang, Korea. With the extension of the works in Gwangyang, the annual production capacity will be increased from 30,000 to 54,000 t of nickel. Commissioning is scheduled for …
In February 2013, Tata Steel granted SMS Siemag, Germany, the final acceptance for the modernization of coiler No. 3 in its IJmuiden, Netherlands, hot strip plant. Thanks to the comprehensive upgrade, the over 25-year-old coiler is now able to coil hot strip of higher strengths and greater thicknesses. Our aim was to make coiler No. 3 fit for coiling …
The Chinese steel manufacturer Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd. (TISCO) has contracted SMS Siemag, Germany, for the planning and supply of an X-Melt® CONARC® furnace unit with energy recovery system for a new long product mill in Taiyuan, North China. The energy recovery system increases the steelworks’ energy efficiency and especially contributes to …