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Siemens to Supply Drives for Maghreb Steel Roughing and Steckel Mills

08/06/2007 - Maghreb Steel places an order with Siemens I&S to supply drive systems for a new Steckel mill and a new roughing mill.

Maghreb Steel Co., Morocco, recently placed an order with the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) to equip a new Steckel mill with drive systems. The project volume is around 16 million euros.
 
The new hot rolling mill includes a roughing stand with edgers, Steckel rolling stand, cooling section, and a downcoiler. For the roughing stand and the Steckel stand, Siemens will supply twin main-drive motors, each with an output of 5.2 megawatts, as well as the motors for the edgers, the Steckel coilers and the downcoiler plus all the roller table motors.
 
Cylindrical-rotor synchronous motors will be used as the main drives and will be supplied with power via Sinamics SM150-type DC link converters. The other motors will also be equipped with Sinamics converters. The motors will be manufactured in Siemens’ German Dynamowerk factory, which is located in Berlin.
 
Siemens will supply the transformers as well, and is also responsible for supervising installation and commissioning the drive equipment.
 
The new hot strip mill, which will have an annual capacity of one million tonnes, is being installed as part of an extensive investment program. The company’s aim is to cover its own needs and also to produce hot strip for export from 2009 onwards.
 
According to Siemens, the new drive systems will be delivered, installed and commissioned by the end of 2008.
 
Established in 1975, the Maghreb Steel Co. operates a rolling mill near Casablanca to produce cold-rolled, galvanized, and coated steel strips and pipes.