ANDRITZ cold-rolling mill for Harada Metal Industry successfully rolls first strip

Parallel to mechanical pre-assembly work, ANDRITZ also conducted pre-commissioning of the automation technology for this project using simulation software. The movements triggered were performed in a kinematized 3D model and reported back to the control system. In this way, it was also possible to test the automated sequences at the same time as the programmed functions before delivery and start-up at the customer’s premises and also to put these sequences and functions into “virtual” operation.

ANDRITZ received an order from Harada Metal Industry Co., Ltd., Japan, in the summer of 2018 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. The cold-rolling mill that has now gone into operation on schedule is the fifth plant of this kind to be supplied to Harada by ANDRITZ.

Harada Metal is a privately-owned Japanese company producing phosphor bronze sheets and strip.

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ANDRITZ GROUP
International technology group ANDRITZ offers a broad portfolio of innovative plants, equipment, systems and services for the pulp and paper industry, the hydropower sector, the metals processing and forming industry, solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors, as well as animal feed and biomass pelleting. The global product and service portfolio is rounded off with plants for power generation, recycling, the production of nonwovens and panelboard, as well as automation and digital solutions offered under the brand name of Metris. The publicly listed group today has around 28,400 employees and more than 280 locations in over 40 countries.

ANDRITZ METALS
ANDRITZ Metals is – via the Schuler Group – one of the world’s leading suppliers of technologies, plants and digital solutions in sheet metal forming. The product portfolio also includes automation and software solutions, process know-how, and service.

In the metals processing segment, the business area offers innovative and market-leading solutions for the production and processing of flat products, for welding systems, as well as furnaces and services for the metals industry.