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SMS Siemag to Supply Caster, Strip Mill for Habas

05/08/2012 - SMS Siemag will supply a continuous slab caster and a hot strip mill to the Turkish steelmaker Habaş A.S. Besides the mechanical equipment, the supply scope for the hot strip mill includes the entire automation package.

SMS Siemag, Germany, will supply a continuous slab caster and a hot strip mill to the Turkish steelmaker Habaş A.S. Besides the mechanical equipment, the supply scope for the hot strip mill includes the entire automation package.
 
The new facilities are being built in Aliağa on the Turkish Aegean coast and are scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2013. Habaş will thereby move into the production of flat products.
 
The two-strand continuous slab caster is designed for an annual production of 2.5 million tonnes and will produce slabs in thicknesses of 200 and 225 mm and in widths of 1000 to 2100 mm. The caster, designed as a vertical bending plant, is equipped with a resonance oscillator to ensure that the slabs have a high surface quality. In addition, the dynamic segment adjustment with patented soft-reduction technology helps to achieve high internal quality of the slabs.
 
In the first construction stage, the compact hot strip mill is designed for an annual production of 2.5 million tonnes of hot strip. The capacity can be gradually extended to 4.5 million tonnes per year. The strip widths vary between 700 and 2100 mm and the strip gages between 1.2 and 25.4 mm. On the mill, Habaş can produce a range of carbon steels and multiphase steels as well as pipe grades up to strength class X80.
 
The main components of the hot strip mill in the first construction stage are a four-high reversing roughing stand with edger, a mandrel-less coil box, a drum-type crop shear, seven finishing stands with CVC® plus, the laminar cooling section, two downcoilers, and a pallet transport system including an inspection line. The strip cooling is equipped with reinforced cooling groups. These allow Habaş to benefit from high cooling rates and differentiated cooling strategies for the production of special grades. The two down coilers are designed as UNI plus coilers for the winding of high-strength pipe grades up to a strip gage of 25.4 mm.
 
The supply scope of the X-Pact® automation package includes the Level-1 and Level-2 systems with the process models, technological measuring systems, instrumentation, sensors, industrial camera system, and a common HMI for both automation levels. The drive systems with their converters and all motors, main and mill pinion gear units, as well as the drive spindles for the compact hot strip mill at Habaş are also included in SMS Siemag's supply.
 
The mechanical core components are being produced by SMS Siemag in its Hilchenbach workshops.
 
SMS Siemag AG is a company of the SMS group which, under the roof of the SMS Holding GmbH, consists of a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. With some 11,000 employees, the group generates sales of over EUR 3 billion.