As per the recent press release by Primemetals Technologies UK based company, has signed a contract with one of India’s largest steel maker JSW Steel for the supply and installation of a two strand wire rod mill.
JSW steel is purchasing third set of wire rod mill from primemetal technologies. The new wire rod mill by the JSW is expected to start by the end of 2019 and it will be built in Toranagallu, Karnataka state in South India. Earlier, the company has installed a single-strand wire rod mill and a bar mill.
Primetals Technologies will supply the complete wire rod mill with all mechanical and electrical equipment for two-strand production from a single stand roughing mill.
Two independent rolling lines will then join at the coil handling area for further compacting and unloading. Among other Morgan-branded equipment, the mill includes a new design of individually driven pre-finishing mill that eliminates the need for uploopers, a faster cooling nozzle clamping and unclamping method for shorter change times, the latest generation 6 Morgan High Speed Laying Head with SR Series pipe technology, and a recently patented stepless reform design.
Besides installation and building the mills, it has also signed a contract includes site supervision and spare parts.
After the completion of wire rod mill, it will run at a maximum speed of 115 metres per second and can produce at 220 tons per hour and 1.2 million tons per annum.
JSW steel has set a target to produce 16.75 MnT of crude steel production and 16 MnT of sales in FY19. In FY’18, company achieved 16.27 MnT of production and 15.62 MnT of sales as per latest annual report.
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