CORPORATE NEWS:
Danieli wins major contract from Corus
Danieli will install a new caster, furnaces and a seven-stand breakdown mill at
Corus’s Scunthorpe steelworks as part of the latter’s previously announced £130 million investment (US$227 million) at the site in North-east England.
The new caster will produce 283 x 230mm blooms in long tubular moulds using a
12m radius and dynamic soft reduction, which, combined with fast casting speeds, will provide consistently high bloom internal and surface quality. The blooms will directly feed the Rod Mill, significantly improving process chain efficiency and will also feed the Medium Section Mill alongside the current bloom caster. To accommodate the larger feedstock Danieli will also be installing a highly efficient, logic-controlled furnace in the Rod Mill. The new furnace will feed the blooms at a rate of 200 tonnes per hour into a new seven-stand breakdown mill positioned prior to the stands of the existing
Rod Mill. In addition, Danieli will relocate a furnace to the Medium Section Mill.
Franco Alzetta, Executive Vice President of Danieli says: “We are very excited to be working with Corus to implement industry best practice techniques and to improve the flow and quality of feedstock into their mills. Removing the Rod Mill’s intermediate rolling and its associated reheating process will reduce decarburisation, enabling Corus to deliver a higher volume of premium grade steels in an efficient way.”
Andrew Page, Managing Director of Corus’s Construction and Industrial Division, commented: “Danieli has an excellent reputation for innovative caster design and offered us the best technical solution
to meet our product requirements. The enhancements will deliver consistently high product quality and create a shorter,
more efficient process route. The benefits
of the total investment will extend the
scope of the whole Scunthorpe operation, significantly improving the Medium Section Mill’s rolling capability by enabling the introduction of rail manufacture to the site alongside structural sections and by delivering a world class supply chain for wire rod manufacture.”
The existing four-strand wire rod mill will be upgraded with new reheating facilities,
a single-strand compact breakdown mill and heated roller table for connection to
the existing four-strand mill. This will allow the mill to increase its billet size to
283 x 230mm or 180 x 180mm conticast blooms, weighing up to 4.5t.
The new 200-tph Danieli Centro Combustion walking-beam reheating furnace with feeding, delivery and descaling facilities, is designed for granting high productivity, minimised fuel consumption, as well as low decarburization and scale losses. The single-strand, high-speed, twist-free breakdown mill will be made up of seven heavy-duty
SHS housingless stands arranged in V and H positions. A Danieli Centro Combustion heated roller table will be provided for temperature equalisation and the proper delivery of the feeding section to the existing four-strand rolling mill. A crank shear, located at the new breakdown mill’s exit, will enable the cropping of 283 x 230mm, 4.5t blooms in order to cope with the mill’s present coil weight dimensioning (up to 2.2t coils).
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Danieli & C Officine Meccaniche SpA |
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Italy |
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