TPT March 2020

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Danieli to modernise Algoma steel mill Danieli, a full cycle provider in the metals industry, along with Danieli Automation and Danieli Taranis, have been chosen by Algoma Steel, a fully integrated steel producer, as the supplier team for a complete upgrade of its 166" wide-plate mill of Algoma Steel in Ontario, Canada. The project will allow Algoma to expand its product portfolio to include wider plate products, to better control shape and surface quality and to improve logistics. Automation from Level 0 through to Level 2 systems. Along with new process equipment and new digital drives, this will allow Algoma to perform normalised or controlled rolling, so that it can supply new grades of plate to the shipbuilding, energy and bridge building sectors. Additionally, Danieli Taranis will provide engineering and post-commissioning support. Danieli’s scope of work will include an overhaul of the complete plant automation system, from the reheat process to finished goods and Danieli www.danieli.com Algoma www.algoma.com According to Danieli, the plant will be completely re-automated by Danieli

the installation of a new primary de- scaler as well as a new hot-leveller and a new cooling bed. A new dividing shear, piling system, ‘top-to-bottom’ automated inspection system and plate marking machine will upgrade the finishing area. Work began in October 2019 and will be concluded in the summer of 2021.  

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