News: Metals

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Hindalco Industries Ltd., India, to supply a new tension leveling line with an annual capacity of 100,000°tons and a new degreasing line with an annual capacity of 150,000 tons. Start-up is scheduled for spring 2021.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Nucor Steel Arkansas Division, USA, to supply a hot-dip galvanizing line for its facility in Hickman, Arkansas, USA.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Aperam Genk, Belgium, to supply a 20-high cold-rolling mill in four-column design for processing stainless steel strip grades AISI 300 and 400.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, to supply a complete walking hearth furnace plant for its facility in Witten, Germany. Production is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2020.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from HBIS Group Co. Ltd, Laoting, Hebei Province, China, to supply two strip processing furnaces.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, Germany, to supply a hot-dip galvanizing line for the customer’s location in Dortmund, Germany.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. in China to supply an S6-high cold rolling mill with an annual capacity of 280,000 tons. The new plant is designed to process high-strength steel grades.

International technology group ANDRITZ has signed a contract for the acquisition of ASKO, Inc., a family-owned company headquartered in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA. ASKO has approximately 140 employees and generates annual sales of approximately 40 million USD.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from the private enterprise Harada Metal Industry Co., Ltd., Japan, to supply a 20-high cold rolling mill in four-column design to produce high-precision quality coils of phosphor bronze with a final strip thickness of 20 microns for its Sendai plant, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from stainless steel producer Fuxin Special Steel Co. Ltd. to supply a cold strip annealing and pickling line for its Fuxin plant, Fujian Province, China.

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully improved performance of the annealing and pickling line for stainless steel strip at Fuxin Special Steel Co., Ltd, Fujian Province, China.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from ArcelorMittal Atlantique & Lorraine S.A.S. to supply a direct-fired furnace for its new continuous galvanizing line at the plant in Florange, France. The ANDRITZ scope of supply and services further includes engineering, the automation and electrical equipment, as well as supervision of erection work and commissioning. Start-up is planned for the third quarter of 2019.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Acerinox Europe, S.A.U. for renewal of cold strip line #3 at the Palmones plant. The scope of supply and services includes engineering and delivery of a new chemical processing section, major modifications to the mechanical equipment (e.g. welding machine), new rotary roller stands for the furnace, as well as the electrical equipment, dismantling of existing parts of the plant, and commissioning of the upgraded line.

ANDRITZ Herr-Voss Stamco Inc., a member of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Steel Technologies, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, to supply a new multi-blanking line for their facility in Pesquería, Nuevo León, Mexico. The line will process 150” x 74” wide material with an incoming coil capacity of 60,000 lbs.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Swiss Steel AG, Switzerland, for the supply, installation, and startup of a new walking beam furnace with an output of 150 t/h for heating the continuous-cast billets at the Emmenbrücke plant, Switzerland. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2019.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired a 50.1% stake in the British laser company Powerlase Photonics Ltd. Powerlase specializes in the manufacture of picosecond and nanosecond high-energy, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Risse + Wilke Kaltband GmbH & Co. KG, Iserlohn, Germany, to deliver a new cold rolling mill, including electrical and automation equipment.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from steel producer ArcelorMittal to supply two new top- and bottom-fired walking beam furnaces for its 80” hot strip mill in Burns Harbor, Indiana, USA.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from steel producer Nucor to supply turn-key production lines for its new specialty cold rolling mill complex at the company’s sheet steel mill in Hickman, Arkansas, USA. Start-up of the plant is scheduled for the second half of 2018.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from stainless steel producer Acerinox Europa to supply a turnkey cold strip annealing and pickling line for its Campo de Gibraltar plant in Los Barrios, Spain.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order to supply two continuous furnace plants for two new hot-dip galvanizing plants at Tangshan Iron and Steel Group, China.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has been awarded the Energy Globe Award, one of the world's most prestigious environment awards, for its environmental protection technologies PYROMARS and ZEMAP.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Constellium and the joint venture Constellium/UACJ to supply two continuous annealing and pickling lines and two finishing lines for production sites in Neuf-Brisach, France, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired Herr-Voss Stamco Inc., headquartered in Callery, Pennsylvania, USA, and is thus enlarging its service and product offerings for North American customers in the metals sector.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein, Germany, to modernize continuous annealing line No. 4 at the Andernach plant, the largest production site worldwide for packaging steel.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Walsin Lihwa to supply a stretch-bend-leveling line, a rolling mill, and a regeneration plant for the stainless steel cold-rolling mill in Taichung, Taiwan. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has been awarded an order to supply a new walking beam furnace for the Donawitz plant of voestalpine Schiene GmbH, Austria, Europe’s leading supplier of railroad tracks.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Yieh Phui Technomaterial, China, to supply a hot-dip galvanizing line with an annual capacity of 400,000 t.