WCA March 2015

India

Insight

New bar rolling mill heading for SLR Metaliks

SLR Metaliks Ltd, an Indian pig-iron producer, has ordered a bar rolling mill from Siemens Metals Technologies for its new steel plant near Hospet. The mill will be designed to produce 320,000 tonnes of rebar and special bar quality grades, primarily for the automotive industry. The plant is scheduled to be brought into operation in the first half of 2016. Siemens will supply the complete process equipment for the new bar rolling mill, including the billet infeed with a hot charging option, the descaling, and the handling of the finished bars. The quality of the rolled bars will be controlled by inline measurement of the dimensions and profiles with non-contact, laser-based Orbis measuring systems. A hot dividing and crop shear will be installed between the rolling mill and the cooling bed. Downstream of the cooling bed, another dividing shear will cut the rolled bars to length. This will be followed by automatic bundling, wire-tying and weighing machines, with a maximum bundle weight of five tonnes. The bar rolling mill will be fed with square cross section

steel billets and process them to produce rebar with diameters between 8mm and 32mm, and SBQ rounds with diameters from 16mm to 63mm. The operators will also have the option of producing bars with square and ❍ New mill heading from Siemens Metals Technologies. Photograph courtesy of SRL Metaliks

hexagonal cross sections. SLR Metaliks Ltd – India Website : www.slrm.co.in

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