High-capacity mill setting standards for the rolling of thin hot strip
SMS group supplied a high-capacity hot strip mill to Jindal Steel Odisha, India. The HSM is designed for an annual capacity of five million tons. It is provided with the latest generation of rolling technologies ensuring efficient and sustainable production of especially thin final gauges.
SMS group’s main scope of equipment included the primary descaler, roughing stand number 1 in 2-hi design with attached edger, roughing stand number 2 in 4-hi design also with attached edger, transfer bar cooling system, HIBOX® heat preservation hoods, mandrel-less coilbox, edge heating equipment, drum shear, secondary descaler, a seven stand finishing mill, laminar cooling and three downcoilers. SMS group’s integrated business unit AMOVA supplied a coil conveying system, coil strapping machines, marking machine and an inspection line.
The range of steel grades that to be processed is very wide. These include, e.g. sophisticated grades such as HSLA, pipe grades and silicon steels. The share of harder material grades is more than 20 percent. Furthermore, very thin strips can be rolled reliably and stably. This is possible by implementation of various innovative rolling technologies.
Impressions
Main data
Slab length | max. 12 m |
Slab width | 800 – 1,680 mm |
Slab thickness | 180 – 260 mm |
Strip width | 800 – 1,680 mm |
Strip thickness | 1.20 – 20.00 mm |
Capacity | 5.0 million t/year |