According to Danieli, the Zawiercie facility is hoping to optimize rolling performance and increase plant availability. To that end, Danieli will install new, low-voltage inverter drives for the mill’s roughing and intermediate sections.

“Special attention will be paid to the reheating furnace heating-up billets produced by the local meltshop to accurate rolling temperatures. There, hardware and software for level 1 automation system will be upgraded. A new process control system for automatic setup of the heating curves of the furnace also will be supplied,” Danieli said. 

The upgrade will be executed by the end of this year.

The mill annually produces 500,000 metric tons of bars and wire rod for the construction, agricultural, energy, machinery, and consumer goods markets.