An electrolytic galvanizing plant for steel strip with an annual capacity of 300,000 tons will be delivered to Baosteel Ltd., Shanghai, the largest steel producer in China. This is the second electrolytic galvanizing plant that Andritz will supply to Baosteel, which confirms the customer’s satisfaction with the performance of the Andritz system already installed.
Baosteel Shanghai No. 1, China ordered a cold-rolled strip annealing and pickling line for stainless steel, including inline and offline skin pass mills. This is the second annealing and pickling line that Andritz will supply to Shanghai No. 1, after having received an order for a hot-rolled strip annealing and pickling line from the same customer last year.
North America’s largest integrated stainless steel producer, North American Stainless, a member of the Acerinox Group, awarded Andritz a contract for one of the world’s largest annealing and pickling lines for hot-rolled stainless steel. With a capacity of approximately 1.2 million tons per year, the plant will process strip in the thickness range from 1.5 to 14 mm and up to 1,600 mm wide. In addition to the mechanical equipment, Andritz will supply the annealing furnace and the complete pickling section with all ancillary equipment.
Several orders were received from the Russian steel company NLMK, Lipezk:
A complete hot-dip galvanizing plant with an annual capacity of approximately 300,000 tons. This is the second hot-dip galvanizing plant that Andritz will supply to NLMK.
A combined four-high/S6-high reversing cold-rolling mill for silicon strip for Lipezk, and a four-high reversing cold rolling mill for silicon strip for NLMK’s affiliate Viz Stal, Jekatarinenburg. Andritz will supply the complete mechanical systems as well as all electrical and ancillary equipment.
A complete high-tech color coating line for applications in the automotive industry. This is the second complete line of this kind that Andritz will supply to NLMK.
The Business Area obtained the second order for a Pyromars Mixed Acid Recovery plant from Lianzhong Stainless Steel Corporation, China, an affiliate of E-United Group, Taiwan. Each plant has a capacity of 6,500 l/h of waste mixed acid, making these two the biggest Pyromars plants ever built worldwide.
A precision-strip 20-high cold rolling mill was sold to Luoyang Copper, the largest Chinese producer of copper and copper alloys. Andritz Sundwig will supply the rolling mill, including the complete automation and drive packages. This mill will be the first of its kind in the Chinese nonferrous industry.
To VOSTA Stahlhandel GmbH, Germany, Andritz Sundwig will deliver a cut-to-length line, including a multi-roll leveller for a maximum thickness of 20 mm. The strip to be processed is carbon steel of up to 2,100 mm width. In addition to the mechanical equipment, Andritz will supply the complete electrical system.
Andritz Sundwig received an order from Outokumpu Stainless AB Thin Strip, Nyby, Sweden for the supply of a grinding line for high-alloy austenitic and Duplex steels for up to 6 mm strip thickness and strip widths of up to 1,600 mm. This system will be the second Andritz Sundwig line in the Nyby mill and will have an annual capacity of 120,000 tons.
Andritz Sundwig also received an order from ThyssenKrupp AST, Terni, Italy for extending an existing annealing and pickling line for hot-rolled stainless steel strip of up to 1,600 mm width and up to 7.0 mm thickness. The scope of supply includes two-high tandem rolling mills in the patented S6-high configuration with the complete inlet section for direct rolling of the black hot strip. With this order, Andritz has again demonstrated its leading position for this kind of cold-rolling application.
Andritz Sundwig received an order from TPCO Yuantong Stainless Steel Ware Corp., Ltd. for the engineering, erection, and commissioning of a tension levelling line. The material to be processed is in the thickness range from 0.15 to 2.0 mm and up to 1,350 mm wide; annual capacity is 160,000 metric tons.
ThyssenKrupp USA ordered an annealing and pickling line for cold-rolled stainless steel strip of 1,890 mm maximum width and 3.5 mm thickness with an in-line skin pass mill. The line is designed for an annual production of 500,000 tons.
Andritz Sundwig is to supply a hot-dip galvanizing plant to voestalpine Stahl GmbH in Linz, Austria, as part of the Linz 2010 project. This plant will produce strip ranging from 800 to 1,750 mm in width, with thicknesses between 0.4 and 2.0 mm. The product quality and output of 400,000 tons p.a. are geared to producing top-quality surface finish, as well as new high-strength steel grades for the automotive industry, the household goods sector, and for steel profiles/building components. This is already the third hot-dip galvanizing plant for voestalpine supplied by the Andritz Group.
Andritz received an order from Salem Steel, a subsidiary of SAIL-India, for an annealing and pickling line for stainless steel strip with a maximum width of 1,300 mm and a maximum thickness of 6 mm. Included in the contract is an acid recovery plant based on the Pyromars technology (the first plant of this kind to be implemented in India).
Andritz Kaiser received an order from Gutbrod Group, Germany, a subsidiary of voestalpine AG, Linz, Austria for delivery of a 2,500-ton press to manufacture parts for the automobile industry. This will be the largest press built by Andritz Kaiser to date.