wiredinUSA August 2018

Rod production gets underway

bending radius caster for 300mm, 450mm and 500mm round blooms.

Simec’s new minimill is now in full operation in Apizaco, Mexico, and will produce 600,000 tons per year of specialty steel, large round blooms, bars and wire rod for the automotive industry. In February 2018, 26 months after contract signing, the mill started forming wire rod coils, followed by the bar line startup in May 2018. Plant startup was completed recently with the melt shop, which operates a 90-t EAF, a twin LF, a twin VD and a three-strand, 14m multi-

Supplied as a greenfield project, Simec’s new minimill, in addition to the meltshop and rolling mill, includes fumeandwater treatment plants, an electrical substation and compressed air plant, product quality laboratories, cranes, electricals and automation featuring Danieli Automation Q3-Intelligence architecture. The plant also features a new, four-roll Danieli DSD drawer.

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