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066 MetalsMAJOR ORDERSJindal Stainless Steel Ltd., India’s largeststainless steel producer, ordered a hotrolledand a cold-rolled strip annealing andpickling line for the new mill in Orissa, India.Both annealing and pickling lines incorporatespecial S6-high cold rolling millsto enable production of final products inone manufacturing process. The hot-rolledstrip annealing and pickling line with integratedS6-high cold rolling mill has an annualcapacity of 850,000 tons and producesstrip with a width of up to 1,650 mm inthe thickness range 1.4-10 mm. The coldrolledstrip annealing and pickling line withthree integrated S6-high cold rolling millsand skin-pass mill has an annual capacityof 450,000 tons and produces strip with awidth of up to 1,650 mm in the thicknessrange 0.3-5 mm.As part of the expansion program of thesteel plants under its fold, India’s largeststeel producer, Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL), ordered a hot-dip galvanizingsystem for the mill in Bokaro, India. Theplant is designed for an annual capacity of380,000 tons. It will produce high-end galvanizedand galvannealed products for theautomotive, white goods, and appliance industries.ANDRITZ METAL’s scope of supplyfor this project comprises engineering,as well as supply, erection, and commissioningof the furnace and cooling tower.Salem Steel, an affiliate of Steel Authorityof India Limited, entrusted ANDRITZMETALS with the supply of a coil preparationline.The Finnish steel producer Rautaruukkiplaced an order for supply of a cut-to-lengthline for the Raahe mill, Finland. The plant isdesigned for high-strength strip with a widthof up to 2,050 mm and thicknesses of 1.5to 10 mm. The annual output is 250,000tons. The heart of the line is the precisionleveler with three different roll diametersin a patented cassette module system .Antwerp Decoil Center B.V., Belgium ordereda cut-to-length line for its new steelservice center. The plant is designed forstrip widths of up to 2,050 mm and thicknessesof 2 to 20 mm. Plate lengths of1,000 to 16,000 mm can be processed.Thyssen Krupp Steel AG ordered a levelerfor hot-rolled sheets and strips for itsHüttenheim, Germany works. The leveleris designed for sheet thicknesses of up to60 mm, widths of up to 3,800 mm, andstrengths of up to 2,000 N/mm².WISCO Wuhan Iron & Steel Group Corp.,China ordered an electrolytic galvanizingplant. This line – the first electrolytic galvanizingplant in the Wuhan steel works – willproduce steel strip for the highest qualitystandard of the automotive and electrical applianceindustry. WISCO selected ANDRITZMETALS – with its Gravitel process – asthe main supplier for the process sectionof the electrolytic galvanizing line. After thetwo orders received from Baosteel, Chinain 2006, this is another milestone in thesuccess story of ANDRITZ METALS electro-galvanizingsystems.Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd.,Taiyuan, Shanxi, China ordered three Pyromars-type acid regeneration systems,which completely recover the spent acidsfrom the stainless steel pickling operations.The combined capacity of these plantsamounts to 22.5 m 3 of acid per hour; theywill meet stringent environmental standardsand will minimize discharge of waste materialfrom the pickling lines.From Tianjin Tiantie Metallurgical GroupCo., Ltd, China, the business area receivedan order to supply a complete electrolyticgalvanizing line. This line will produce approximately300,000 tons of high qualityelectrogalvanized steel strip per year forthe automotive, household appliances, andelectronics industries.Tianjin Tiantie Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd,China also placed an order for the supplyof a furnace for a continuous annealingline. It is the second furnace that ANDRITZMETALS will supply to this customer in justtwo years.Baoji Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., China’slargest titanium producer, ordered a picklingline for hot-rolled and cold-rolled stripas well as a 20-high rolling mill with rollgrinding machine. The pickling line has acapacity of 20,000 t/y and will process ti-