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Völklingen rolling mill
The production of bar steel in various round,
square, rectangular, hexagonal and flat sizes as
well as forged semi-finished products in round and
square sizes is one of the outstanding features of
the Völklingen-Nauweiler medium section mill. Furthermore,
the rolled products can be inspected to
customer specification and prefabricated in one
step. For this purpose the plant operates peeling
and inspection lines, heat treatment and quenching
units and sawing plants for the manufacture of
custom-made and high-quality steel products. The
quality steel and high-grade steels in all areas of
steel processing are mainly used in the automotive
and engineering industries.
In 2011, extensive investments were implemented
and continued in fully automated production and
inspection systems in the rolling mill/finishing line
and in further processing. The installed plants
comply with cutting edge standards and make
Nauweiler one of the most advanced bar steel
centres in Europe. These investments have shortened
lead times and increased the speed of response
in production. The implementation of this investment
plan will also allow the plant to meet the
strong rise in customer requirements with respect
to quality and logistic. The rolled bar steel is used
mainly in the automotive industry, where it is further
processed to make crankshafts, suspension
systems and transmission parts.
First half investment in 2011 focused mainly on the
“rake-type cooling bed and new finishing line”
investment projects. One of the two existing raketype
cooling beds was demolished to make way for
this facility. The foundation was laid on an area of
around 8,000 square metres during ongoing production
and both the structural engineering and
the new plants were erected. The work was commissioned
in summer 2011 after a construction
period of around ten months. A mean ready-to-roll
annual output of around 39,000 month tons (previous
year: 32,000 month tons) (incl. primary rolling)
was reached.
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