Danieli Morgårdshammar will extend the scope of its ongoing project to install a new bar-in-coil line for specialty steel coils (up to 3.2 metric tons) at the Corus Thrybergh bar mill in Rotherham, UK. In March, Corus Engineering Steels contracted Danieli to upgrade the five-pass compact roughing mill in order to extend the process billet size from 180 mm to 210 mm. The supply includes a new billet pinch-roll, water descaling station, and minor modifications to the first two mill stands in order to receive larger-diameter and wider barrel rolls. Danieli indicates the mill’s original design – housingless stands supplied by Danieli in 1989 – make the update possible with minor modifications. The upgraded rougher and the new bar-in-coil line will start up early in 2005. Corus will be capable of producing 320,000 metric tons/year of 13.5 – 60-mm-diam round bars, squares, and hexagons, in a wide range free-cutting, carbon, alloy, spring, and stainless grades.
