Tata Steel subsidiary Cogent Power has unveiled a range of sophisticated new electrical steel products that reduce electricity losses by 20% to 30% compared with conventional grain-oriented grades.
The new products are being made at Cogent Power’s Orb works in Newport, South Wales. Orb produces cold rolled grain-oriented electrical steel for the manufacture of modern electricity transformers that are used to build and renew the world’s major power networks.
The launch of the new grades follows the integration of Tata Steel’s electrical steels production route in 2011. The Orb plant now receives hot rolled coil made in a patented process at the company’s steelworks at IJmuiden in the Netherlands.
The new grades – M080-23DR, M085-23DR, M090-27DR and M095-27DR – support this requirement by enabling the production of highly efficient steel cores housed within the transformers used in energy transmission networks.
In addition, Cogent Power has invested in a new 1m-wide transformer core cutting line at its Canadian manufacturing facility in Burlington, Ontario to meet the needs of large power transformer manufacturers in North America.
