Major orders

  • Andritz will supply a stainless steel cold-strip annealing and pickling line (annual capacity: 250,000 tons) with in-line skin-pass mill and levelling line to E-United Group, Taiwan, for the YUSCO stainless steel mill. Production is planned to start in the autumn of 2007. The order includes the complete engineering work and start-up of the entire plant, as well as the supply of the major plant parts. The mechanical equipment, pickling line, furnace, and automation are all based on proprietary technologies developed by Andritz.

  • In addition, the E-United Group, Taiwan placed a further order for an annealing and pickling line with integrated rolling mills for their new stainless steel plant in China. This is the fourth large order awarded to Andritz for this new stainless steel plant.

  • The Business Area received an order from ThyssenKrupp Nirosta, Krefeld, Germany for the reconstruction of the stainless steel annealing and pickling lines at its Krefeld works which had been damaged in a fire.  

  • TIAN-TIE Group, Tianjin, China ordered an acid regeneration plant for their plant in Tianjin, near Beijing. The plant, which has a capacity of 11,700 liters per hour, is designed for a future upgrade to produce even higher oxide qualities. Start-up is scheduled for the beginning of 2008. With this order, Andritz once again confirmed its leading position in acid regeneration technology. In addition, the TIAN-TIE Group placed an order with Andritz for the supply of a continuous annealing furnace for a new hot dip galvanizing line.

  • Salzgitter Flachstahl, Germany awarded an order for a cut-to-length line for materials with thicknesses in the range from 2 to 16 mm. With a patent for highly precise levelers with almost unlimited thickness range, Andritz is among the market leaders for cut-to-length lines for thick materials with high precision requirements.

  • The Business Area received an order from OJSC Novolipetsk Steel, Russia for a turnkey push pickling line with acid regeneration. Start-up of the plant is scheduled for the First Quarter of 2007. This new pickling plant is designed for the treatment of a product mix of oriented silicon steel strip, as well as standard carbon steel. It will have an annual production capacity of approximately 300,000 tons, for strip up to 1,300 mm wide and in a thickness range of 1.5 to 3 mm. Optimized balancing of operating fluids and agents will minimize consumption levels and effluents.

  • Shanghai Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., China ordered a stainless steel hot strip annealing and pickling line with in-line rolling mill for the new stainless steel mill in Baoshan. The order comprises the complete engineering services and start-up of the complete plant as well as the supply of important machinery and plant components. All required processes (rolling, annealing, pickling) will be based on Andritz’s own technologies. The line has been designed for approximately 900,000 tons of strip per year, depending on the product mix, and will process strip in the thickness range of 2 to 10 mm and up to 1,600 mm wide. Production is scheduled to start in the summer of 2007.

  • Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company Ltd. (TISCO), China placed orders for two very wide (2,100 mm) cold-rolling mills, once again demonstrating the customer’s satisfaction with Andritz’s support and technology.

  • The Business Area received an order for the fifth acid regeneration plant from Baosteel, China. This plant has a capacity of two times 7,500 l/h. In order to produce high quality iron oxide, a WAPUR (Waste Acid Purification) unit will also be supplied.

  • To Jindal South West Steel, India, the Business Area will deliver a hydrochloric acid recovery plant for processing 6,400 l/h of waste acid. The final acceptance test is planned for May 2007.