Marcegaglia and Danieli signed an agreement to initiate the engineering phase of the flat-product minimill project in Fos-sur-Mer, France.
Under this agreement, Danieli will deliver a cutting-edge, fully automated minimill that will include all the production equipment for scrap preparation, electric steelmaking, slab casting, and hot-strip rolling.
Named as Mistral Project, the new minimill will produce up to 2.1 Mtpy of stainless and carbon steel hot-rolled coils to supply the Marcegaglia cold-rolling complex in Ravenna, covering around 30% of overall company HRC demand.
The new electric steel meltshop will feature a Danieli Fastarc Zerobucket furnace equipped with ECS continuous scrap charging and Tornado preheating system, and Q-Melt adaptive process control with auto-pilot. Liquid steel will be processed into quality grades by twin-ladle refining stations and twin-tank vacuum degassers, ensuring high energy efficiency and reduced carbon and NOx emissions.
The Danieli special mill design will permit Marcegaglia ultra-flexible production, thanks to an integrated Steckel mill and hot-strip mill setup within a single configuration.
Supported by Danieli Automation process control systems, the minimill is expected to start production by mid-2028.