EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DAYS 2017 - ESTAD 2017

Safety and environmental considerations have significantly increased the demand for Advanced High Strength Steels for automotive applications. Primetals Technologies has incorporated various advanced technologies in the latest supplied Continuous Pickle Line coupled with Tandem Cold Mills (PL-TCM) to satisfy the increased process demands to produce these harder and thinner steels, achieve the faster rolling speeds required to meet today’s production targets, and provide cost effective solutions in an extremely competitive market environment. This paper will introduce some of these advanced technologies, including highly efficient iBox Pickling Technology with polypropylene tanks, the 6-High Universal Crown Control Mill (UCM-Mill) with unmatched shape control capability, the Hyper-UCM Mill for stable rolling of Ultra High Strength Steels, and the Flying Width Change (FWC) Side Trimmer for continuous trimming operation. The advantages of these technologies to produce these difficult steel grades will be discussed, as well as the implementation of these technologies in new installations or modernizations of existing facilities to maintain high availability of the production equipment.