ArcelorMittal Liege Starts Up Tension Leveler from JP Steel Plantech
03/18/2015 - JP Steel Plantech Co. announced the start-up of commercial operations of an in-line tension leveler for a continuous annealing line to produce super high-strength steel sheet for automotives at ArcelorMittal’s Liege Steel Works in Belgium.
The automobile industry is promoting the reduction of vehicle weight to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel consumption. ArcelorMittal is also promoting the technological development in order to meet the growing demand for super high-strength steel sheet. ArcelorMittal’s critical issue is to ensure sheet flatness while increasing the tensile strength of the steel sheet. Up until now, they had been searching for a total solution.
Although it had been believed to be impossible to achieve appropriate flatness of super high tension steel sheet, JP Steel Plantech Co. proposed applying special tension leveler technology. After experiments backed up by its experience and know-how, JP Steel Plantech proposed the world’s highest tension leveling capacity (980kN as the tension) and received the order for the first facility from ArcelorMittal. Installation work was completed last summer and commercial operations started from October 2014. Now, commercial operations are successfully under way.
In light of the world-first success of this advanced project for a European customer, JP Steel Plantech Co. is accelerating business development in this field of levelers and aggressively expanding its sales activities to steel mills all over the world which produce high quality steel sheet.
Although it had been believed to be impossible to achieve appropriate flatness of super high tension steel sheet, JP Steel Plantech Co. proposed applying special tension leveler technology. After experiments backed up by its experience and know-how, JP Steel Plantech proposed the world’s highest tension leveling capacity (980kN as the tension) and received the order for the first facility from ArcelorMittal. Installation work was completed last summer and commercial operations started from October 2014. Now, commercial operations are successfully under way.
In light of the world-first success of this advanced project for a European customer, JP Steel Plantech Co. is accelerating business development in this field of levelers and aggressively expanding its sales activities to steel mills all over the world which produce high quality steel sheet.
