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Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Russia, commissions 5,000 mm heavy plate mill
Aug 7, 2009
Start up: Alexander Titov (Chief Operating Officer of the Heavy Plate Mill at MMK), Vladimir Putin (Russian Prime Minister), Dr. Heinrich Weiss (Chairman & CEO of SMS GmbH)
Start up: Alexander Titov (Chief Operating Officer of the Heavy Plate Mill at MMK), Vladimir Putin (Russian Prime Minister), Dr. Heinrich Weiss (Chairman & CEO of SMS GmbH)
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In the presence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the company's top priority project, the 5,000 mm plate mill, was put into operation in July 2009.
Designed for an annual capacity of some 1.5 million t, the new heavyplate mill will produce plates up to 4,800 mm wide. Production will focus on pipe grades (up to X120) as starting material for large diameter pipes for use in the gas and oil sector. Other areas of application are, for example, bridge construction and ship-building as well as heavy mechanical engineering.
The project covered the complete process line for plate production with two walking beam furnaces, the mill stand, plate cooling system, hot leveler, cooling and inspection bed, shear line, finishing area with cold leveler and heat treatment facilities. The package also included the complete electrical equipment, drive systems and all automation systems.
The mill housings whith a weight over 500 t make the roll stand with a
rolling force of 120 MN one of the world’s most powerful heavy-plate
mills.
In the past decade, nearly all of MMK's main production divisions have been revamped and many new high-capacity facilities installed, among them a two-stand reversing cold rolling mill (2002), Russia's two largest hot-dip galvanising lines (2002, 2008), a colour coating line (2004), two super-powerful electric arc furnaces with an annual capacity of 2 million metric tons each (2006), three cutting edge fully automated long products mills with the combined capacity of over 2 million metric tons of long products (2005-2006), and many others.
In 1996-2008, the company invested over $5.5 billion in its modernisation.
In addition to the 5,000-mm Plate Mill, MMK management plans to complete the projects of the #6 continuous caster, #2 colour coating line and a secondary steel treatment unit in 2009
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