Indian Steelmaker Signs Off on Meltshop, Rolling Mill
04/05/2017 - India’s BMM Ispat has issued the final acceptance certificates for its new electric arc furnace and merchant bar mill at its Hospet plant in the state of Karnataka.
Built by Primetals Technologies, the mill is capable of making 850,000 metric tons per year of rebar, round and square bars, flats, angles and channels in low- and medium carbon and low-alloy grades. It also can make spring steels and free-cutting steels.
Primetals Technologies engineered and supplied the mechanical and electrical equipment for an electric arc furnace, which has a tapping weight of 110 metric tons and can accept both hot metal and direct-reduced iron; a 110-ton ladle furnace; a vacuum degassing plant; and the alloying and additive systems.
Primetals also provided the level 1 and level 2 automation, the furnace transformers and the dynamic compensation system.
As for the rolling mill, Primetals supplied all of the mechanical and electrical equipment, including the billet charging system for the reheat furnace, the quenching system a packaging section and a variety of shears.
The mill consists of a 6-stand roughing mill in an H-V configuration; a 6-stand intermediate mill in a H-V-C configuration; and an 8-stand finishing mill, also in an H-V-C configuration.
The finishing mill and the 102-meter-long cooling bed are linked by two delivery systems, one of which is a twin-channel high-speed system that can operate at speeds of up to 25 meters per second.
Primetals said the rolling mill is supplemented by a finishing shop that has straightening, bundling, stacking and strapping capabilities.
Primetals Technologies engineered and supplied the mechanical and electrical equipment for an electric arc furnace, which has a tapping weight of 110 metric tons and can accept both hot metal and direct-reduced iron; a 110-ton ladle furnace; a vacuum degassing plant; and the alloying and additive systems.
Primetals also provided the level 1 and level 2 automation, the furnace transformers and the dynamic compensation system.
As for the rolling mill, Primetals supplied all of the mechanical and electrical equipment, including the billet charging system for the reheat furnace, the quenching system a packaging section and a variety of shears.
The mill consists of a 6-stand roughing mill in an H-V configuration; a 6-stand intermediate mill in a H-V-C configuration; and an 8-stand finishing mill, also in an H-V-C configuration.
The finishing mill and the 102-meter-long cooling bed are linked by two delivery systems, one of which is a twin-channel high-speed system that can operate at speeds of up to 25 meters per second.
Primetals said the rolling mill is supplemented by a finishing shop that has straightening, bundling, stacking and strapping capabilities.