SteelNews.com Article
Danieli Undertakes Structural Mill Project in India
Mar. 22, 2010 Rashtria Ispat Nigam Ltd., a Government of India Enterprise, has contracted Danieli to supply a new 850,000-tonnes-per-year structural mill that will produce a range of structural section types and sizes, at rates of up to 200 tonnes per hour.
The new mill, to be installed at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in the Andhra Pradesh State, will be fed with blooms and billets produced at the three new six-strand Danieli FastCast™ conticasters, presently under construction for the same site and due for startup in mid 2010.
The plant will consist of:
- Danieli Centro Combustion 200-tonnes-per-hour walking beam-type reheating furnace
- 17-stand super-flexible continuous mill, made up of the latest-generation SHS housingless stands in horizontal, vertical, and combined H-V or Universal arrangement, all with automatic stand replacement for quick program changing
- “Double” finishing outlet made up of two lines (arranged as a “mirror-image” in the plant layout), each including a 90-m-long cooling bed, on-line straightening machine, side-transfer for full length bar-layer formation, a set of cold saws for cutting to commercial length, three single-head magnetic stackers (12-m-long each), and stack strapping and collecting facilities.
All electrical and the advanced automation system will be provided by Danieli Automation.
The scope of supply will include design, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, testing, packing, supply, erection, startup, testing, commissioning, and demonstration of performance guarantees of the facilities for the structural mill, on discrete turnkey basis.
The new mill’s product range includes 100 to 180-mm beams, 100 to 120 parallel flange columns, 75 to 150-mm channels and correspondent angles and tees, and 45 to 95-mm-diameter rounds and correspondent squares.
Startup is scheduled for Q1 2011.