Fives Stein to Supply CAL Furnace Equipment for Baosteel's Zhanjiang Project
08/21/2013 - Fives Stein, designer of high technology furnaces and thermal equipment for steel and glass, has been awarded a major contract to design and supply a continuous annealing line vertical furnace for Baosteel’s Zhanjiang project.
Through this contract, Fives Stein will supply equipment for the 2030 Cold Rolling Mill, one of the plant’s key units, which will mainly produce automotive exposed panels and sheets and other high-end appliances products, with a designed annual production capacity of 2.2 million tons. With the Zhanjiang project, Baosteel will bring new steel capacities in the GuangDong province of southern China, a region opening to the dynamic southeast Asian market.
The vertical annealing furnace that will be supplied by Fives Stein for the Zhanjiang plant will be composed of 10 different heating and cooling sections including the patented FlashCooling® technology, and will process the strip thermal cycles over 95 vertical passes with a total strip length inside the furnace of 2.5 km. The equipment integrates the most advanced combustion and cooling technologies combined with the design and operation experience of the last 8 vertical annealing furnaces ordered by Baosteel to Fives Stein since 2005. This continuous annealing line (CAL) will have an annual production capacity of 825,000 metric tons.
Thanks to Fives’ most advanced technologies, the Zhanjiang facility will have an improved environmental track record. The furnace will integrate the latest generation of the highly efficient AdvantTek® combustion system, which has the best recuperative energy efficiency (20% better compared to other combustion systems), combined with the lowest NOx emissions (50% lower than other systems).
Construction of the cold rolling facility will begin in September 2013 and the continuous annealing line will begin running in June 2016.
Fives is an industrial engineering group with a heritage of over 200 years of engineering excellence and expertise. Fives provides process equipment, production lines and turnkey plants for the biggest global players in the aluminum, steel, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, cement and energy sectors in both developing and developed countries.
In all these sectors, Fives designs and manufactures equipment and innovative solutions, which better anticipate and meet the needs of its customers in terms of performance, quality, safety and respect for the environment.
In 2013, Fives is forecasted to achieve a turnover of € 2 billion and expected to employ more than 7,500 people in over thirty countries.
In steel, Fives’ goal is to help steelmakers enhance their performance and the subsequent competitiveness.
It has developed the most reliable and innovative technologies and offers a range of expert service, from the layout of a facility to revamping services, including the design, manufacture and retrofit of mechanical, thermal, tube and pipe finishing equipment and the supply of surface treatment technologies.
Fives employs 1,000 people dedicated to steel applications, with the capacity to run projects everywhere. It partners with steelmakers to help them meet the quality requirements they want.
