Primetals Technologies, with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the US, was recently selected by Yongxing Special Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. for the supply of a new combination bar, bar-in-coil and wire rod mill in Huzhou, China. The new mill will produce 250,000 tons per year of stainless valve steels, nickel-based alloy steel and several stainless grades, including austenitic, ferritic, dual phase and hardening steels. Product applications include aerospace, energy, medical, automotive and petroleum industries, among others.
The contract scope for the mill includes the provision of a Reversing Sliding Breakdown Mill and 14 Red Ring stand mill trains; straight bar equipment, including cooling bed run-in table with brake slide, cooling bed, bar handling with hot saws and optical bar counting, bar bundling and binding system; bar in coil equipment, with pouring reels, coil quenching tanks, and coil handling with Rod Outlet; and rod outlet equipment.