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Arvedi to build endless strip mill
Italy's Acciaieria Arvedi is to install an endless strip mill to allow for
continuous production of hot rolled strip, the flats producer's parent
company announced. The 190m line, called Arvedi ESP, is
scheduled to start up in 2008. It will be able to produce in
thicknesses from 12mm to less than 1mm, which will make cold
rolling unnecessary for some applications. Widths will be up to
1,570mm. Each of the line’s four sections will be inter-connected.
The first section will have a thin-slab caster, followed by a reduction
mill at its end. The second section will have an induction furnace for
rerolling. The third section will have a high-finishing mill and cooling
line, while the fourth section will have a high-speed flying shear and
three downcoilers. Cutting of the strip will take place only after rolled
product goes through the finishing mill, an Arvedi official told
SteelWEEK. VAI, which is part of Siemens Group's Industrial
Solutions & Services, will provide equipment for the project. A joint-
venture engineering company, Gremona Engineering, will oversee
co-ordination of the project's implementation. Acciaieria Arvedi
already has a similar process, called In-line Strip Production, which
allows liquid steel from the melt shop to be transformed into ultra-
thin hot rolled coils. Its finished production for 2006 is expected to
reach 1.15mt, and sales for the year are forecast at €600m ($76 1m)
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Atvedi to put up ESP plant at Cremona
Italian Accialeria Arved! SpA announced that they are going to
build the world's first Arvedi endless strip preduction plant for
the continuous production of finshed steel strip at the
company's existing site at Cremona in italy, Start up Is
scheduled for 2008.
The feciity will produce high quality hot rolted and colted thin
Strip in a wide range of stee! grades in an endless process from
liquid Stee! to rolled goods. The new single ine plant will be
Hesigned to yield an annual eapacity of more than 2 mion
tannas of rolled steel
Arvedi, which has emplayed intine strip production technolooy
‘ince 1992, has developed tne new Arvedi ESP process in whictt
the cast thin slabs will De immediately rated to strip and coiled
‘n @ continuous endless process.
The line tayout can be subdivided into four main plant sections.
The first covers the thin slab caster with liquid core reduction
and three high reduction stands at the exit of the casting
‘machine serving for in line rolling. The downstream section
comprises the induetion furnace where the intermeotate stip Is
equalized. Subsequently, the § stand 4 high finishing mil
followed by the cooling line, allows for the rolling of strip to
thicknesses between 12mm and imen in widths of up to 1570
‘mm, The fourth secton consists of the high speed flying shear
and three downeailers. The line js sald to have a total length of
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plant
Italian steelmaker Acciaieria Arvedi is to invest €300m to construct a new steel
plant in Cremona, which will produce finished strip products direct from liquid
steel in a continuous process called endless strip production (ESP), a company
spokesman fells Steel Business Briefing.
The plant, which is expected to start operations in 2008, will have an
approximate capacity of 2m tonnes/year, Added to Arvedi’s 1.2m tly existing
plant in Cremona, it will increase the company’s capacity to over 3m ty in the
next fo years.
The ESP process will enable the company to produce strip in a wide range of
steel grades — including HSLA and multi-phase steels — to thicknesses below
1.0mm, It will reduce production costs and improve environmental
compatibility, Arvedi says, “For many application areas cold rolling will no
longer be necessary,” the company adds,
Arvedi has signed a 50/50 joint venture agreement with plantmaker Siemens
VAI to establish a new company, Cremona Engineering, that will market ESP
technology worldwide. The company will also be responsible for the design and
development of Arvedi’s new plant in Cremona, The financial details af the joint
sclosed by neither Arvedi nor Siemens VAL.
yenture were
Arvedi’s production of steel 2006 is expected to amount to 1,15m t and sales are
forecast at €600m. The company core business is focused on steelmaking
activities ranging from flat rolled carbon steel production and processing to
stainless steel welded tube producti
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