The Andritz scope of supply and services comprises the complete hot-dip galvanizing line, in particular the furnace with the latest annealing technology for high-strength steel grades (Generation 3 AHSS), strip cleaning, mechanical equipment including strip transport and skin pass mill, electrical equipment, automation, and start-up of the plant.
Following the order to supply a pickling line and rolling mills for Nucor’s new cold-rolling mill in Hickman, AR, last year, Andritz succeeded in convincing Nucor once again with its technologies for the hot-dip galvanizing line.
Nucor Corporation, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, is the largest US steel producer, with a production capacity of over 24 million t/a, and is also the largest “mini-mill” steelmaker (i.e. the company uses electric arc furnaces to melt steel scrap instead of blast furnaces for smelting iron).
_{(Source: ANDRITZ AG)}