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SMS Demag to Supply Heavy Plate Mill for Baotou
Apr. 1, 2006 April 2006 — Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co. Ltd., P.R. China, has awarded an order to SMS Demag, Germany, to construct a heavy-plate rolling mill with an annual capacity of 1.4 million tonnes.
SMS Demag’s scope of supply includes the engineering, manufacture and supply of the core equipment for the mill stand area and the shear line. Danieli will also provide supervision of erection and commissioning, the electrical and automation systems for the profile and flatness control technology package, and the technological control systems for the hot-plate leveler and the plate cooling system.
The heavy-plate mill will utilize the remaining steel capacity of the existing converter shop, of 1.5 million tonnes per annum, in order to produce high-grade plates in the thickness range from 5 to 100 mm with a maximum width of 3,700 mm and a maximum length of 52 meters.
The core units of the initial equipment comprise a four-high roughing stand and a four-high finishing stand with hydraulic roll-gap adjustment as well as CVCPLUS bending and shifting devices for the finishing stand. The initial equipment will also include laminar plate cooling (Accelerated Plate Cooling), hotplate leveler, the cooling bed, shear line with cropping shear, sidetrimming shear and dividing shear, as well as the finishing line.
Production of the first plate is scheduled to take place in autumn 2007. Baotou is already operating a twin-strand CSP facility and a pickling line/tandem mill from SMS Demag.
SMS Demag AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. SMS GmbH is the holding for a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering relating to the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals and plastics. The group is divided into the Business Areas of Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology, Tube, Long Product and Forging Technology and Plastics Technology. In the year 2004 some 9,500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.20 billion.