Hunan Valin Xiangtan, P.R. China, has awarded Danieli a contract for a new 120 tonne/hour special bar quality mill.

The 600,000 tonne/year mill will be designed for low temperature rolling of 16 to 55-mm straight and coiled bars and hexagons for automotive and mechanical manufacturing. It will be made up of 16 housingless H–V stands with on-line water cooling boxes for LTR rolling, as well as a five pass Kocks/Danieli RSB Reducing and Sizing Block.

The RSB combines 3-roll technology and a wide free-size rolling capability to provide superior product quality with higher mill efficiency at lower operating costs. State-of-the-art finishing outlets fitted with on-line heat treatment facilities will grant production of superior quality finished products.

The straight bars finishing line will include automatic cooling bed, cut-to-length, bundling and collecting facilities. The coiling line, designed for production of 2-t coils, will be made up of two rotary-plate Garret coilers, coil-handling system, walking beam controlled-cooling conveyor, and coil compacting, tying and collecting facilities.

Steel grades will range from quality carbon to alloy steels, including cold-heading, spring and free-cutting qualities. Startup is scheduled for the beginning of year 2007.