Celsa recently awarded Danieli orders for three high-capacity Spooler lines to be installed at its Cardiff (U.K.), Castellbisbal (Spain), and Huta Ostrowiec (Poland) bar mills. The order follows Danieli’s successful spooler line installation at Celsa’s Nervacero SA, Vizcaya plant in Spain.

Celsa’s new spooler lines will all be designed for production of 8- to 32-mm diameter rebars at maximum rated outputs of 180 tonne/hour (160 tonne/hour for the U.K. plant). Coil weight will be 2.9 tonnes for the Castellbisbal and Huta Ostrowiec plants, while the Cardiff line will produce 2.2-tonne spooled coils. The equipment is designed for coil weights up to 3.5 tonnes.

The patented Danieli Spooler system has revolutionized bar-in-coil technology, enabling the production of high-quality ultra-compact heavy weight coils made up of twist-free wound hot-rolled round and deformed bars. Featuring cobble-free uncoiling capability, spooled coils can be used for direct feeding of downstream lines in cold processing plants, without any intermediate off-line operation (i.e.: decoiling, stretching or cold rewinding). The elimination of intermediate processing results in significantly reduced direct production costs and more efficient coil handling, transport and storage.

When in operation at late 2006/early 2007, these three new lines, together with the Nervacero Spooler plant, will make Celsa Group the largest producer of spooled coils in the world, with a designed overall production capacity of approximately 2 million tonne/year, depending on production mix and market demand.

The current Danieli scorecard includes a total of 28 Spooling units supplied or under supply for 12 different customers worldwide. Sixteen of the 28 are for the Celsa Group.