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ThyssenKrupp Steel, Germany, to invest in hot strip production
May 25, 2011
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG is to invest around 300 million euros in its hot strip mills in Bochum and Duisburg. The investments will help the steel producer to strengthen its position as technology leader for premium flat-rolled carbon steel products.
Hot-rolled strip is the basis for all ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe’s flat steel products. The company operates four hot strip mills with a total annual capacity of around 15 million metric tons. Hot strip mills 1 and 2 are located at the Duisburg site, along with a casting-rolling line that also produces hot-rolled strip. Hot strip mill 3 is in Bochum.
Among other things, the hot strip mills now to be modernized produce lightweight steels for the automotive industry, starting material for tinplate - which is 100% recyclable and is used to make food and beverage cans – as well as steels for oil and gas pipelines and starting material for electrical steel.
One of the focuses of the investment program is hot strip mill 1, which has an annual capacity of around three million metric tons. The mill will be equipped with profile, contour and flatness control systems. The strip cooling system will also be replaced. The furnaces used to heat the steel slabs to rolling temperature will be fitted in part with new burners. These will reduce heating times and require less energy. The upgrade program also includes new roll drives and a new computer control system for the entire mill train.
A new accelerated cooling system is currently being installed on hot strip mill 2 at the Duisburg-Beeckerwerth plant. Additional investments will go into a new computer control system for the roughing and finishing mills and into equipping further roll drives with new, large motors. The transportation and storage facilities for finished hot-rolled coils will also be replaced. At hot strip mill 3 in Bochum, a new cooling line is to be installed for more exact temperature control as well as new rolling equipment for enhanced dimensional accuracy.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has already invested 180 million euros in expanding hot strip mills 2 and 3 since 2006, creating additional capacities to handle two million tons of slabs per year from ThyssenKrupp’s new steel mill in Brazil.
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