STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 01/2019

18 | NEWS ROUND-UP
HBIS Laoting orders another continuous slab caster
Chinese steel producer HBIS Laoting has
ordered another two-strand continuous
slab caster from Primetals Technologies.
The casting plant will form part of a new
production facility for high-quality steels,
which is being built in the Laoting district
in the south east of the autonomous
city of Tangshan.
HBIS Laoting had already ordered two slab
casters from Primetals Technologies in 2017.
They will start operation in the course of
this year. The now ordered third continuous
slab caster is scheduled for commissioning
in February 2020.
The new two-strand continuous slab
caster will be designed for a production
capacity of 2 million t/year and have a
machine radius of 9.5 m and a metallurgical
length of 35.1 m. It will cast slabs
with a thickness of 230 mm in widths
ranging from 800 to 1,600 mm. The
maximum casting speed will be 1.8 m/
min. The range of products will cover
ultra-low carbon and low carbon steels,
deep drawn, structural peritectic alloyed
steels, and pipe grades.
Primetals Technologies is responsible
for the detail engineering of the casting
platform and the strand-guiding system, the
basic and detail engineering of the maintenance
area, as well as the engineering of
the automation and the software for the
new continuous slab caster. The scope of
supply includes the complete electrical installations
and automation, as well as core
components, such as mould and mould oscillator,
bender and Smart Segments for the
strand-guide system. Primetals Technologies
will also supervise the installation and
commissioning, and conduct the customer
training on site.
• Primetals Technologies
Hunan Valin awards reducing and sizing block order for SBQ greenfield mill
Special steel producer Hunan Valin is
going to use a Kocks reducing and sizing
block in its new greenfield special
bar quality rolling mill No. 3.
The Kocks RSB ® 370++/5 of the latest
5.0 design will be designed for thermomechanical
rolling and for finishing
all straight bar sizes in diameters ranging
between 16 and 100 mm onto the
cooling bed. Friedrich Kocks will also
supply the roll shop for preparing the
three-roll stands and the three-roller
guides. Commissioning of the Kocks
block is scheduled for the first quarter
of 2020.
• Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG
Asia: India
Mukand Sumi Special Steel to install SBQ mill
Mukand Sumi Special Steel Ltd.
(MSSSL), a joint venture of Mukand
Ltd., India, and Sumitomo Corporation,
Japan, has placed an order with SMS
group for the supply of a state-of-the
art special bar quality (SBQ) rolling mill
for the production of straight round and
hexagon bars, wire rod and bar-in-coils.
The new mill will be installed near Hospet
in Karnataka, adjoining Mukand’s existing
steelmaking facilities. Mukand and Sumitomo
Corporation are aiming to export
specialty steels across the globe from
this unit. In a first stage, the mill will have
an annual capacity of 400,000 t, but will
already be prepared for a capacity increase
to 600,000 t/year in a second stage. The
mill will include a walking-beam reheating
furnace, 18 housingless two-high stands
in H/V arrangement, a precision sizing
mill (PSM ® ), shears, cooling lines, cooling
bed with finishing facilities, a wire rod line
with a ten-stand wire rod block, coil handling
equipment and a coil compactor. The
heart of the mill is an advanced three-roll
PSM ® with hydraulic roll adjustment under
load. The layout of the wire rod outlet
will also consider a future upgrade with a
MEERdrive ® PLUS sizing block. A pouring
reel line with two coilers specially designed
for scratch-free guiding of finished products
will complete the mill.
• SMS group
Asia: Japan
JFE Chita orders further threading machine for large pipes
SMS group has received a new order
from JFE Steel Corporation for a premium
threading machine. The machine
will be installed in JFE’s Chita works
in the Chukyo Industrial Zone.
Threading machine operating according
to the rotating pipe principle (Picture: SMS
group)
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