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SMS Demag Logs Major Orders from MMK
09/18/2007 - The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine awards SMS Demag an order to supply equipment for secondary metallurgical facilities, a set of cold strip units with a coupled pickling line and tandem cold mill, and strip refining plant and equipment worth some EUR 530 million.
The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine (MMK), Russia, has awarded to SMS Demag AG, Germany, an order for the supply of equipment for secondary metallurgical facilities, a set of cold strip units with a coupled pickling line and tandem cold mill, and strip refining plant and equipment worth some EUR 530 million. Together with MMK’s order for a continuous casting plant and a heavy plate mill placed with SMS Demag at the beginning of this year, the order volume totals approximately EUR 1 billion.
MMK, one of Russia’s leading steel producers, will, by means of this investment, expand its production of cold-rolled and galvanized strip to a high standard of quality. This strip is intended above all for the manufacture of automotive sheets and motor-car internal parts as well as for the domestic appliance and construction industries.
SMS Demag will supply all the mechanical components and the entire electrical and automotive systems the new secondary metallurgical facilities, cold strip units, and strip refining equipment.
Expansion of the secondary metallurgical facilities, supplied by SMS Mevac GmbH, is a pre-condition for the production of high quality steel grades. The supply scope comprises a ladle furnace with two treatment stations, a Duplex RH-Top facility, a deslagging stand and two ladle treatment stations. The facilities will also be used for
producing pipe and shipbuilding steels, which are to be processed in the 5-meter heavy plate mill.
The cold rolling stage consists of a coupled pickling line and tandem cold mill with an annual capacity of approximately 2.0 million tonnes. It will be equipped with turbulence-tank pickling technology and possesses five four-high stands. According to the company, the plant will be the world’s most powerful coupled pickling line and tandem cold mill, with its high drive power ratings and a rolling force of 35 MN per stand. All stands
operate with CVC plus® technology, with the final stand additionally fitted with multizone cooling and the Dry-Strip drying system. The facility is equipped with the “Rotary Inspect” inline inspection line to enable quality control to take place during the actual production wherever possible.
The strip processing lines comprise a hot-dip galvanizing line and a combined hot-dip galvanizing line and continuous annealing line, each with integrated skinpass stands, a recoiling and inspection line, and two packaging lines. The line will be capable of processing a wide range of materials, from mild to high-strength grades, into galvanized strip with GI and GA grades. Three acid regeneration plants allow complete recycling of pickling acid.
SMS Demag will set up the entire automation system in its test facilities and test it according to the Plug & Work concept. Plug & Work simulates the production sequence and allows the automation functions to be tested and optimized under realistic conditions prior to installation in the works.
The facilities will be put into operation in 2009 and 2010.
SMS group is, under the holding SMS GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It essentially consists of the two Business Areas SMS Demag and SMS Meer, which jointly form SMS metallurgy. In 2006, some 9000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.8 billion.
