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Major orders
- Chinese Taigang Group placed an order to supply the world´s largest annealing and pickling line for cold-rolled stainless steel strip. The plant will have an annual capacity of 500,000 tons and will be installed at Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Taiyuan Shanxi, China. With this order, Andritz further strengthens its position as a leading technology supplier for complete stainless steel processing lines. In addition, several orders for strip processing lines (tension levelers, recoiling lines), including mechanical and electrical equipment, were obtained.
- SeAH Steel Group, Seoul, South Korea ordered a 6-high cold-rolling mill which will be delivered in spring 2005. This mill will roll carbon steel up to 1,360 mm width at a maximum speed of 1,400 m/min. The line is equipped with a POS (Process Optimization System).
- The Business Area will supply two sophisticated inspection lines for steel strip for automotive applications to Wuhan Iron & Steel (Group) Corporation, Changqian, Quingshang, Wuhan, China. In addition, Andritz received an order from this customer to supply a very special hydrochloric acid regeneration plant with a twin reactor design, with a total capacity of 15,000 l/h.
- Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group of the Hunan province in China ordered an hydrochloric acid regeneration plant with waste acid purification and silicon pre-sedimentation. Capacity of this plant is 10,000 l/h.
- The Business Area received an order from Shanghai Krupp Stainless (SKS), a joint venture of Thyssen Krupp Stainless and Shanghai Pudong Iron & Steel Company Ltd. (subsidiary of Baosteel Group), to supply a hot-strip annealing and pickling line for stainless steel strip. The line will have an annual production capacity of approximately 440,000 tons. Equipment delivery is scheduled for the end of 2005 and production of the first strip is planned for the summer of 2006.
- Andritz also received a large follow-up order from Lianzhong Stainless Steel, a member of Taiwanese Yieh Group, for the extension of the new stainless steel mill in Guangzhou, China. In 2003, Andritz had received an order to build the world’s largest stainless steel hot strip annealing and pickling line for the same customer and that project is currently underway. The recent order relates to a stainless steel cold strip annealing and pickling line with a capacity of approximately 250,000 t/y. Delivery is scheduled for August 2005, with production of the first strip expected in July 2006. In order to regenerate the waste mixed acids of these lines, the customer additionally ordered a Pyromars plant, which will recover nitric acid and fluoric acid.
- For the automotive plant joint venture of Mazda in China on the island of Hainan, Andritz received the first cut-to-length line which will be implemented together with Jier Company, a Chinese press manufacturer.
- JISCO, a steel company in the northwestern Chinese province Gansu, signed a contract with Andritz for the supply of a complete stainless steel strip manufacturing plant, consisting of several rolling mills, two pickling and annealing lines, and several slitting, cutting and processing lines. The contract was split up in an engineering part which came into force in December. The supply contract for the equipment will probably follow in 2005, after receiving all necessary approvals from the Chinese authorities.
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