In a first stage, the mill will have an annual capacity of 400,000 t, but will already be prepared for a capacity increase to 600,000 t per year in a second stage.
The mill will comprise a walking-beam reheating furnace with a capacity of 75 t/h in the first stage and 110 t/h in a second stage, 18 housingless two-high stands in H/V arrangement, a Precision Sizing Mill (PSM^®), shears, cooling lines, cooling bed with finishing facilities, a wire rod line with a ten-stand wire rod block, laying head, Loop Cooling Conveyor (LCC^®), coil handling equipment and a coil compactor.
A pouring reel line with two coilers specially designed for scratch-free guiding of finished products will complete the mill. The heart of the mill is an advanced three-roll PSM^® with hydraulic roll adjustment under load. All finished sizes with diameters ranging from 17 to 65 mm can be produced cost-effectively even in small batches at a maximum speed of 14 m/s.
Wire rod in diameters from 5.5 to 22 mm will be produced on the wire rod block at a maximum speed of 90 m/s. The layout of the wire rod outlet will also consider a future upgrade with a MEERdrive^®PLUS sizing block.
“With this new mill, we will be able to expand our position as a leading specialty steel supplier for the fast-growing Indian and worldwide automotive and engineering industries,” says Arvind M. Kulkarni, Director, Mukand Sumi Special Steel Ltd.
Commissioning of the new SBQ mill is scheduled for the second quarter of 2020.
_{(Source: SMS group)}