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News in brief Tata Steel, United Kingdom, has installed a transfer bar cooling system in its hot strip mill at Port Talbot, allowing the company to manufacture more higher-value steels. The transfer bar cooling system is to increase the volume capacity of the hot strip mill by more than 150,000 t/year. EVRAZ ZSMK, Russia, has issued the final acceptance certificate for electric arc furnace No. 2 modernized by Primetals Technologies. Tata Steel, India, has unveiled the solid liquid separation (SLS) plant for slurry from the gas cleaning process at its Joda ferro alloys plant in the Keonjhar district, Odisha. The SLS plant is an environment-friendly initiative, set to recover manganese-rich solid from the wet gas cleaning slurry. Egyptian Steel has started production in its No. 2 micromill supplied by Danieli. The mill features endless casting and rolling technology to produce commercial steel rebar for construction applications. ŽDB Wireworks, Czech Republic, has completed the first part of the modernization of its unpatented wire facilities in Bohumín. The company, a subsidiary of Trinec Iron and Steel, has reconstructed a part of the rolling mill with an annual capacity of about 60,000 t and has built a new hall for the annealing section. Next, a third annealing furnace will be built. Severstal, Russia, has brought on stream a production line for polymer-coated rolled steel products at its Cherepovets metal coating workshop No. 3. The workshop features new equipment for a polymer coating line and a hot-dip galvanizing unit. Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenierie CMI supplied the main process equipment.
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block, SMS group’s scope of supply also includes two cantilever compact roughing stands, the group of shears upstream of the block, and the loop laying head including pinch roll unit. SMS group is also supplying the design for the LCC® loop cooling conveyor with three-fan technology, as well as the coil handling system. Commissioning is scheduled to take place in spring 2019.
China Wälzholz to expand production of high-performance steel strip. Since 2014 Wälzholz has operated the first German cold rolling mill in China, at the site of the former Service Center Waelzholz New Material in Taicang, approximately 60 km north of Shanghai. Wälzholz has now ordered a new cold reversing mill from Danieli to expand the production of high-performance steel strip. The new mill will be designed to roll a wide product mix of special steel grades, from an entry thickness of more than 5 mm down to a finish thickness of below 1 mm at a maximum strip width of 670 mm. Danieli Automation will provide electrics and automation. An intelligent data analysis systems, ready for Industry 4.0, will be connected to Wälzholz proprietary process data management system. Additionally, a new slitting line will be designed to slit the finished coils from the cold mill into narrow strips down to 12 mm width and maximum 20 slits.
China Shougang Jingtang to build pelletizing plants. Outotec will design and supply two iron ore pelletizing plants to Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel located in Caofeidian. The pelletizing plants, each with annual capacity of 4 million t of iron ore pellets, will be based on Outotec’s modern travelling grate technology. The plants are scheduled to be commissioned in 2019.
China Nanjing Iron & Steel to revamp continuous bloom caster. Nan-
jing Iron & Steel United has awarded Primetals Technologies the order to revamp its bloom caster No. 8 at the steel plant No. 3 in Nanjing. The caster, supplied by Primetals Technologies, was originally designed as a five-strand machine but was set up and has been operated as a three-strand caster since 2008. The current revamp will encompass the installation of a fourth strand, enabling the production of an additional bloom format with a rectangular cross section of 320 mm x 420 mm. The revamped caster is scheduled to come on stream in June 2018.
China Shandong Steel Rizhao commissions blast furnace. Shandong Steel Group Rizhao has blown in the first blast furnace at a new production site which is to help phase out older ironmaking facilities in the group. Just 26 hours after the blow-in, the first hot metal was tapped from the furnace for which Paul Wurth supplied top charging and slag granulation technology. The current phase of construction at Shandong Steel Group Rizhao consists of two blast furnaces with 5,100 m³ inner volume each. They will be fitted with central feed Bell Less Top® charging systems and Paul Wurth’s INBA® cold water system with two dewatering drums for reliable slag sand production. Commissioning of blast furnace 2 is scheduled for summer this year. Paul Wurth also designed the coke batteries for this plant project and will supply single-oven pressure control valves and level 2 automation packages.
China Pangang orders measuring system for rail production. Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang) has ordered a measuring system from Nextsense. Based on non-contact measurement technology, the OSIRIS Hot laser-measurement system achieves extremely accurate measuring results and, being a combined system, it identifies both profile deviations and surface defects in one step. This will allow Pangang to continu-