Hot Rolling Flat Engineered from Start to Finish Metals Magazine speaks with Project Engineers Paul Whiting (Project Engineer) and Richard Hawke (Project Engineering Manager) from the Sheffield, U.K., location of Primetals Technologies. ISSUE #14 (JUN 24) 05.09.2024
Hot Rolling Flat Power Work-Roll Cooling: A Cool Solution for a Hot Topic The new Power Work-Roll Cooling solution from Primetals Technologies significantly reduces energy costs and further improves the efficiency of work-roll cooling. ISSUE #14 (JUN 24) 17.05.2024
Digitalization Construction Work Begins at thyssenkrupp Steel in Duisburg thyssenkrupp Steel recently held a cornerstone ceremony marking the pre-assembly work for continuous caster No. 4 and hot-strip mill No. 4 at its Bruckhausen site in Duisburg, Germany. 11.12.2023
Hot Rolling Flat New Eco Slide Discs at Hyundai Steel Hyundai Steel has recently implemented Eco Slide Discs from Primetals Technologies at its steel plant in the city of Dangjin, South Korea. 29.11.2023
Hot Rolling Flat Liberty Steel Galati Orders New MULPIC System for Heavy Plate Mill Liberty Galati orders a new Multi-Purpose Interrupted Cooling (MULPIC) system and a water treatment plant for its heavy plate mill line in Romania. 08.08.2023
Green Steel MULPIC Cooling Technology: Improving Plate Production An analog and digital solution focused on inline plate cooling, MULPIC, provides steel producers with a means of cooling plates in an eco-friendlier and with greater efficiency. ISSUE #12 (FEB 23) 09.12.2022
Hot Rolling Flat SIJ Acroni Modernizes Plate Mill Drives in Slovenia Slovenian steel producer SIJ Acroni, part of SIJ Group, is Europe’s most prominent producer of stainless quarto plates and entrusts Primetals Technologies to modernize its plant. 29.09.2022
Hot Rolling Flat Baosteel China Issues FAC for New Laminar-Cooling System Recently, Primetals Technologies received the final acceptance certificate for the replaced laminar cooling section installed at the 2050mm hot strip mill in the Shanghai, China production site of ... 25.11.2021
Hot Rolling Flat Algoma Steel Issues FAC for Upgrade of Hot-Strip-Mill Drive Primetals Technologies has received the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for its drives upgrade project with Algoma Steel, Inc. of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. The hot strip mill’s master drives ... 29.10.2021
Hot Rolling Flat Kobe Steel Orders New Steel Plate Finishing Rolling Mill for Kakogawa Works In June, Primetals Technologies received an order from Kobe Steel, Ltd. for a steel plate finishing rolling mill for its Kakogawa Works located in Kakogawa City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. 16.09.2021
Hot Rolling Flat Coil logistics, made simple The modular coil shuttle system from Primetals Technologies is the cost-efficient solution of choice for coil logistics in hot-rolling, arvedi esp, and cold-rolling plants. ISSUE #08 (MAY 19) 01.05.2019
Hot Rolling Flat A Common Vision for Excellence Primetals Technologies and partner thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have developed a new and groundbreaking vision-based strip-steering control system for hot-rolling mills. ISSUE #07 (OCT 18) 01.10.2018
Digitalization Roll-Eccentricity Compensation Roll-Eccentricity Compensation (REC) eliminates the influence of roll eccentricity on strip thickness or tension. ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Transformation Monitor The Transformation Monitor directly measures the transformation of iron from austenite to ferrite through a real-time, online measurement of the ferrite concentration within the steel as it cools ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Strip-steering vision-based control The Electrics & Automation experts at Primetals Technologies, together with thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, have devised a new vision-based strip-steering control system for hot-strip mills. From the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Wedge and camber control Rolled strip is ideally both straight (i.e. without camber) and left-right-symmetrical with respect to thickness (i.e. without wedge). Unfortunately, if wedge within a slab is removed through ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Model-based strip-width control The main challenges facing today’s basic and process automation systems for hot-strip mills are the reduction of strip-width deviations and the avoidance of below-minimum widths after the ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Digitalization Cyber-physical model for cooling In 2010, a brand new idea for a novel type of cooling model triggered a wealth of activities geared toward an implementation in the years to follow. In its current form, the model is designed to ... ISSUE #06 (MAR 18) 01.03.2018
Hot Rolling Flat Unleash the Water Power Cooling is a state-of-the-art, innovative cooling solution for both new and existing hot-strip mills, and one of the most sought- after products from Primetals Technologies. It enables ... ISSUE #04 (FEB 17) 01.02.2017
Hot Rolling Flat Hot Rolling and Processing Facility: Unique on the Planet On March 18, 2014, a new, fully integrated hot-rolling and processing facility (HRPF) supplied by Primetals Technologies on a process-turnkey basis was started up at the Brackenridge facility ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Hot Rolling Flat The Power to Succeed Thomas (Tom) DeLuca joined Allegheny Ludlum (now ATI) in 1984 as a metallurgist after completing his university education in the field of metallurgical engineering at the University of ... ISSUE #03 (SEP 16) 01.09.2016
Hot Rolling Flat The Proof is in the Product The quote “Nothing great is easy” has been used for many decades, and the ability to produce high-quality rolled products consistently and rapidly is no exception. Primetals Technologies offers a ... ISSUE #02 (FEB 16) 01.01.2016
Hot Rolling Flat Looper Shape Meter: Keep Your Strip in Shape Market demand for high-tensile-strength steels is steadily increasing, which means hot-strip mills have to roll harder and thinner products. Exact inline strip shape measurements are required as ... ISSUE #02 (FEB 16) 01.01.2016
Hot Rolling Flat Mill Stabilizing Device By equipping conventional roll chocks with the hydraulic Mill Stabilizing Device from Primetals Technologies, impact forces during strip threading into the finishing stands of a hot-strip mill are ... ISSUE #02 (FEB 16) 01.01.2016
Endless Casting & Rolling More Value for Customers The merging of the former Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery and Siemens VAI Metals Technologies in January 2015 to become Primetals Technologies considerably enlarged the company portfolio of ... ISSUE #02 (FEB 16) 01.01.2016
Hot Rolling Flat Superior Mill Performance Primetals Technologies supplied a hot-strip mill to Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas) at Cubatão in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Started up in 2012, the mill incorporates ... ISSUE #02 (FEB 16) 01.01.2016
Hot Rolling Flat ESTAD: End-to-End Excellence Across the Metals Value Chain of Rolling Rolling papers will be presented by Primetals Technologies specialists at the ESTAD Congress covering the topics of plate rolling, hot-strip rolling, cold rolling and long rolling. ISSUE #01 (MAY 15) 01.05.2015
