Jindal South West (JSW) Steel Ltd., India, has awarded a contract to SMS Demag AG, Germany, for the supply of a Compact Cold Mill (CCM) and skinpass mill. With its investment, JSW Steel will become the first to operate a CCM on the Indian subcontinent.

The two-stand, high-capacity reversing-type cold rolling mill is rated for an annual output of 850,000 tonnes, rolling coils with a maximum weight of 62 tonnes and a maximum strip width of 1,650 mm.

In addition to standard products for building fronts and white and brown goods, JSW will use the CCM to produce body plates for the automotive industry. The requirements in terms of the quality of the strip produced and the flexibility of the CCM are accordingly high. To attain these objectives, the CCM is designed as a 6-high mill stand and equipped with the patented CVCPLUS technology.

In addition to cold rolled strip, the skinpass mill will also process hot rolled strip coming directly from the pickling line.

SMS Demag AG forms part of the Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology Business Area of the SMS group. SMS GmbH is the holding for a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering relating to the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals and plastics. The group is divided into the Business Areas of Metallurgical Plant and Rolling Mill Technology, Tube, Long Product and Forging Technology and Plastics Technology. In the year 2004 some 9,500 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.20 billion.