Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Source: SIEMENS
In the hot-rolling mill supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies to the Arcelor Mittal Group as a turnkey installation in Cracow, Poland, the first coil was produced at the end of June – 23 months after signing the contract – which is one month before the contractually agreed date. Arcelor Mittal now has the most modern hot-strip rolling mill in Europe. It is the first completely new facility of this kind in Europe for more than ten years and is scheduled for an annual production capacity of 2.4 million metric tons of steel.
(PressZoom.com) - In the hot-rolling mill supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies to the Arcelor Mittal Group as a turnkey installation in Cracow, Poland, the first coil was produced at the end of June – 23 months after signing the contract – which is one month before the contractually agreed date. Arcelor Mittal now has the most modern hot-strip rolling mill in Europe. It is the first completely new facility of this kind in Europe for more than ten years and is scheduled for an annual production capacity of 2.4 million metric tons of steel.
The new hot-rolling mill in Cracow was supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies as a turnkey installation. Apart from the technological parts of the facility and the complete electrical, drive and automation systems, the project included construction, the roll-shop and auxiliary installations – including water treatment equipment. Siemens also trained the operating and maintenance personnel and carried out commissioning.
The technological scope of supply of Siemens included a reheating furnace, a reversing quarto roughing stand with hydraulic upsetting devices, an “Encopanel” insulating tunnel and a crop shear. The six-stand finishing train is equipped with “SmartCrown” work-rolls, which enable a larger adjusting range for profile and flatness control. A laminar cooling section with quickly switchable “SmartCoolers” in the fine tuning zone enables precise control of the cooling process – an essential prerequisite for manufacturing special grades of steel. Two “PowerCoilers”, each with four wrapper rolls, ensure reliable winding of high-strength steel grades.
The plant produces steel strip in thicknesses from 25.4 millimeters down to 1.2 millimeters and has an annual capacity of 2.4 million metric tons. The maximum coil weight is 35 metric tons. With a maximum strip width of 2100 millimeters, the hot-rolling mill is one of the widest plants in Europe.
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Metals Technologies (MT), a division of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group, is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry as well as for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Linz/Austria, plus the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for all related technological processes and integrated automation solutions for the entire life-cycle of metallurgical plants.
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products and systems and process technologies in order to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness of companies in the sectors of metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 8.819 billion, according to U.S. GAAP.
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