The Siemens Group Industrial Solutions & Services’ unit Metals Technologies has received an order from Jindal Stainless Ltd for a new hot strip mill. The order includes the plant layout, the mechanical equipment, the drives as well as the entire basic and process automation. Production start is scheduled for 2009. After the first project phase, the mill will be able to produce 1.6 million tonnes per year of austenitic and ferritic stainless steel strips including a minor quantity of plates. In a later project phase the plant can be upgraded to a production capacity of 3.2 million tonnes per year by installing a second reheating furnace, a seventh mill stand and a second down coiler.
