Jindal Stainless Steel Ltd., the largest stainless steel strip manufacturer in India, ordered a continuous annealing and pickling line for cold rolled stainless steel strip. Annual capacity of the line will be 250,000 tons. In addition, Jindal ordered a 20-high cold rolling mill together with two roll grinding machines and placed an order for revamping of its hot annealing and pickling line.
	For Voest Stahl Service Center, Linz, Austria the Business Area will supply a multi-blanking line. A specific feature of the plant, which will be put in operation in early 2006, is its potential of simultaneously cutting four strips placed alongside each other into plates.
	For JIUQUAN Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., China the Business Area will supply a complete plant for the manufacture of cold rolled stainless steel strip with an annual capacity of approximately 600,000 tons. Start-up of the plant is planned for the First Quarter of 2007. The order value is approximately 110 MEUR and comprises several lines for annealing, pickling, and finishing of the strip, which will be cold rolled on several cold rolling mills also supplied by Andritz. With the receipt of this large-scale contract, the Andritz Group further extends its market leadership as a supplier of plants for processing stainless steel strip.
	In connection with the Linz 2010 project Andritz received an order from voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria for the supply of a heavy-duty hot-dip galvanizing line, a strip inspection line, and an acid regeneration plant. The product quality and the production capacity of 450,000 t/a are focused on manufacturing new high-strength steels for the car industry. The value of the order is approximately 65 MEUR, and the system is scheduled to start-up in the First Quarter of 2007.

	The Business Area will supply a combined steel and stainless steel plate trimming, leveling and cut-to-length line to Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company Ltd. (TISCO), China. It is one of the largest of its kind and will produce heavy plates mostly for bridge constructions and the machinery industry. In addition to this order, TISCO entrusted Andritz with several orders for cold rolling mills (S6-high and 20-high) which are unique in terms of width (2,100 mm) and product mix, as well as a cold annealing and pickling line of the same width. With these orders amounting to more than 100 MEUR, TISCO will be the largest producer of wide cold rolled stainless steel sheets and plates in the world.
	Donghuk, a Korean steel company, ordered a 6-high cold rolling mill for carbon steel which is the second cold rolling mill for carbon steel supplied by Andritz to a Korean steel company after entering this market in 2004.
	Due to the high reliability and performance combined with a very competitive price, several orders were received for Andritz’s flatness measurement systems.