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The Rolling Mills and Strip Processing Lines Business Area designs and builds complete lines for the production of cold-rolled carbon steel, stainless steel, and non-ferrous metals strip.  These lines consist of equipment for cold-rolling, surface treatment, strip coating and finishing, and acid regeneration.  The know-how and key equipment are developed in-house and manufactured at the Company’s own facilities.

The Andritz Group is the only single-source supplier capable of providing all technologies and processes involved in the manufacture of stainless steel strip (cold rolling, annealing, pickling, and finishing) on a comprehensive basis (mechanical, process and electrical equipment).  This ensures minimized interfaces and takes the interdependencies of the overall process into consideration.

The acquisition of the furnace technology business from Selas S.A.S. added process know-how for continuous hot-dip galvanizing and carbon steel strip annealing systems to the Andritz portfolio. This enables the Business Area to offer complete systems for both continuous galvanizing processes:  hot-dip and electrolytic galvanizing.

The Rolling Mills and Strip Processing Lines Business Area operates through the following companies: Andritz AG, Austria; Andritz-Ruthner Inc., USA; Thermtec B.V., Netherlands; Sundwig GmbH, Germany; Andritz Selas S.A.S., France; and Andritz Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India.  It has manufacturing and assembly facilities in Graz, Austria and Hemer, Germany.