High production capacity - excellent product quality. Main data. On the 1+4 hot rolling line strips of all kinds of aluminum and aluminum alloys with best surface quality, excellent thickness profile and flatness tolerances and perfect final rolling temperature. Layout of semi-continuous aluminum mill. Let's get in touch!

Thin Slab Casting and Rolling Technology, in particular CSP® technology (Compact Strip Production), is well established for hot coil production. From its introduction in 1989, CSP® technology has been continuously developed further. Today, on a CSP® plant, nearly the full range of high-quality steel grades can be produced with tightest …

With a view to the wide size range of the hot rolled strip thicknesses from 1.5 mm to 20 mm, width from 750 mm to 2200 mm as well as the conditions and costs for maintenance of the coiler station, a three roll or a four roll coiler offers a large number of practical benefits. Technical.

The X-Roll® hot strip mill from SMS group is an all-round talent in hot strip production. It is the proper solution for ultra-thin gauges up to thick gauges for all steel grades incl. LC, ULC, high strength grades, API grades.

This immense power gives the hot rolling and processing facility the capability and versatility to process and roll the broadest ranges of specialty metals in the industry. The finishing mill is normally designed with six to seven 4-high mill stands, each equipped with 10 MW drives and a mill-stand load of up to 55 MN.

Compact in design, CSP ® produces high-quality hot strip in a single manufacturing line that combines casting, heating, and rolling. Our proven CSP ® caster with its patented …

Compact Strip Production. Compact strip production is a thin slab continuous casting and rolling process developed by Schroman-Simak Company (SMS), which is usually called CSP process. In 1985, SMS of Federal Republic of Germany improved the vertical-bending caster in Busch Steel Plant, and successfully cast a thin …

The reversing cold rolling mill is the all-rounder among the cold rolling mills: Here, thin strips, thick strips, soft grades, high-strength and ultra-high-strength strips can be rolled in succession on one and the same plant. The RCM is mainly used for low carbon steels, but is also a good solution for modern grades such as silicon steels.

Hot strip mill strip width 900–1,980 mm 36–78 inches strip thickness 1.55–25.4 mm 0.61–1 inch coil weight Max. 40.3 metric tons 44 tons Annual production (one strand) 1,500,000 metric tons 1,650,000 tons

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In most plants, production capacity is about 1 million tons per year, ranging from 0.9-1.5 million tons/year. Slab dimensions range from 40 to 70 mm in thickness and 900 to 1600 mm in width in the most of installations. Minimum finish size of strip is from 1.2 mm to 2 mm in most cases; newer mills usually have thinner finish size.

CSP® (Compact Strip Production) is a world's leading thin slab technology, developed by SMS group, in 1989. It has transformed the world of flat steel production for carbon steel …

German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will supply a two-stand compact cold mill (CCM) for Bangladesh-based ABUL KHAIR Strip Processing Ltd.The compact cold mill will have an annual production capacity of 185,000 mt of ultra-thin strips. With this mill project, ABUL KHAIR is expanding its cold strip production in …

Strip steel with a continuous coil thickness of about 20 mm or less (the maximum thickness is generally 25.4 mm) and with a width less than 600 mm is narrow strip steel, while strip steel exceeding 600 mm is broadband steel. The first hot strip mill was put into production in the United States in 1905 to produce strip with a width of 200 …

Feb 2024. The mandrel-less coilbox is a feature that helps to reduce the carbon footprint of a hot strip mill. It equalizes the temperature over the transfer bar length, enables expanding the product range and improves the hot strip quality as well as the rolling stability. The best thing is: All this is done without thermal energy input from ...

On the 1+4 hot rolling line strips of all kinds of aluminum and aluminum alloys with best surface quality, excellent thickness profile and flatness tolerances and perfect final rolling temperature. Layout of semi-continuous aluminum mill. Let's get in touch! Use our contact form for questions, inquiries or personal contact.

The concept of Nexus is based on SMS group's proven Compact Strip Production (CSP ®) technology.With the first plant in 1989 at Nucor Crawfordsville in the United States and 30 reference plants built worldwide to date, CSP ® is the industry's leading thin slab casting and rolling technology. Due to the compact layout and a linkage of casting and rolling, …

Heavy plate rolling mills are generating the highest rolling forces among flat rolling mills. With rolling forces of up to 120 MN, SMS group supplied the most powerful plate mill stands worldwide. Actually, today's production and process requirements go far beyond. The design and the technological level of the mill stands allow continuous ...

Main data. Ideal for ultra-thin rolling of copper strips, 20-high mills from SMS group come in either Monoblock or Splitblock design. They process a wide range of materials and guarantee flawless surfaces of even thin strip – with a minimum final gauge of 0.05 millimeters. Typically, these top-quality strips are used in the electronics industry.

SMS group modernizes CSP plants at Nucor Steel. SMS group has completed the modernization of the compact strip production (CSP®) mill at Nucor Steel in Berkeley, S.C. The modernization of the …

High-performance hot strip mills are designed for an annual capacity of up to 5.5 million t. They are usually equipped with a slab sizing press, two revers-ing roughing stands, seven finishing stands and three coilers. Compact hot strip mills cater for capacities of between 1.5 and 4 million t per annum. Their main

The X-Roll® hot strip mill from SMS group is an all-round talent in hot strip production. It is the proper solution for ultra-thin gauges up to thick gauges for all steel grades incl. LC, ULC, high strength grades, API grades. ... A compact hot strip mill comes with reasonable invest and provides the opportunity to grow flexibly with market ...

Hot strip mill. Our solution. An advanced Pair Cross mill with mill stabilizing device is used for stable operation of the process for producing thinner and harder steel. Meanwhile, a powerful crop shear and downcoiler are supplied to meet the increasingly complex requirements involved in the production of heavy gauge steel.

Included in many of these projects were the electrical and automation systems. Since 1990, we have also supplied and successfully commissioned Level 1 and Level 2 automation systems for hot strip mills (new plants and modernizations). That is now supplemented by several years of experience in providing complete electri-cal …

As early as in 2012, when Habaş ordered the mill, the company had decided in favor of the flexible SMS concept which provides for an upgrade in several stages to a high-performance hot strip mill. For the current upgrade, Habaş has ordered a second roughing stand with attached edger (E1/R1) and a third downcoiler (DC 3).

Compact in design, CSP ® produces high-quality hot strip in a single manufacturing line that combines casting, heating, and rolling. Our proven CSP ® caster with its patented funnel-shaped mold casts thin slabs in thicknesses ranging from 50 to 90 mm. Next, the slabs go into the CSP ® furnace for temperature equalization. Straight after that, the CSP …

SMS group holds the thin gauge record in conventional hot strip mills thanks to the mandrel-less coilbox! Another important effect of using a coilbox: It allows a more compact hot strip mill layout. The mandrel-less coilbox can be easily retrofitted in existing plants. Existing coilboxes with transfer mandrel can be revamped to incorporate all ...

Masteel has been operating a heavy-beam mill from SMS group since 1993, and a CSP ® (Compact Strip Production) plant supplied in 2005. Masteel uses the new heavy-beam mill to make products for the bridge and building construction sector, enabling the implementation of new infrastructure projects in China.

First Online: 04 July 2023. 7 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Compact strip production is a thin slab continuous casting and rolling process developed by …

Customers demand hot strip in a wide range of dimensions (thicknesses from 1 to 25.4 mm; widths between 650 and 2,200 mm). Considering this and the costs of coiler station maintenance, the three-roll coiler offers the largest number of practical benefits. We successfully built 4-roll coilers at customers' requests.