Yongxing Special Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., has recently selected Primetals Technologies for the supply of a new combination bar, bar in coil and wire rod mill in Huzhou, China. The new mill will produce 250,000 tons per year of stainless valve steels, nickel-based alloy steel and several stainless grades, including austenitic, ferritic, dual phase and hardening steels, for application in the aerospace, energy, medical, automotive and petroleum industries, among others.
The contract scope for the mill includes the provision of a Reversing Sliding Breakdown Mill and 14 Red Ring stand mill train; straight bar equipment, including cooling bed run-in table with brake slide, cooling bed, bar handling with hot saws and optical bar counting, bar bundling and binding system; bar In coil equipment, with pouring reels, coil quenching tanks, and coil handling with Rod Outlet; and rod outlet equipment, including a 680 shear, 10-Stand Morgan Vee No-Twist Mill, 4-Stand Morgan Reducing/Sizing Mill, Morgan Water Boxes, pinch roll, Morgan High Speed Laying Head, 4-Zone Morgan Stelmor Controlled Cooling Conveyor, stepless coil reforming station, vertical stem pallet coil handling system, vertical coil compactor, and an inline annealing furnace for wire rod products in parallel to the Stelmor.