Plate Mill

Primetals Technologies has successfully completed over 70 Plate Mill projects since 2000, including new full lines, mechatronic packages and major modernizations.

Our plate equipment portfolio consists of:

• Plate Mill (Roughing Mill, Finishing Mill, with Edger option)
• Primary and Mill Stand Descaling Systems
• Pre-levellers
• MULPIC® Accelerated Cooling & Direct Quenching
• Hot Plate Levellers
• Hot Divide Shears
• Cooling Beds
• Double Side Trimming Shears
• Slitting Shears
• Dividing Shears
• Cold Levellers, specifically designed for production of thin and thick high-strength products
• Plate Heat Treatment Lines (Normalizing, Quench & Temper)

Bottom Mounted Long Stroke HAGC

Plate Mill stands equipped with this feature benefit from active passline adjustment, reducing turn-up and turn-down rolling defects as well as lowering maintenance time and cost through the elimination of fixed and stepped packers. Industry thickness quality requirements are also exceeded.

SmartCrown® Work Roll Shifting

As well as increased plate profile accuracy and improved plate flatness, reductions per pass are increased leading to higher productivity, particularly for thin plates.

Direct Application of Levelling Load

The Thin Gauge High Strength Leveller and Power Leveller, specialized for thin and thick high strength plate respectively, utilize the direct application of levelling and bending load through six or more HAGC cylinders with internal position transducers. This allows the most precise control of the plate and leveller cassette deformation, leading to the highest quality, flat, high strength plates.

Primetals Technologies has built up a wealth of expertise in the Thermo-mechanical Controlled Processing (TMCP) of steel plates. Central to this process is the accelerated cooling of the plates after rolling.

Accelerated Plate Cooling

MULPIC® (Multi Purpose Interrupted Cooling) is the world-leading plate cooling technology. Its large flow control range (20:1) allows for both the Direct Quenching (DQ) of Abrasion Resistant and High Strength Steels and the lower cooling rates needed for high carbon or lower strength steels. High cooling rates lead to alloy savings on critical products such as Pipeline Steels, as well as improved toughness and weldability. The cooling header design, coupled with actuators to control the flow across the width leads to reduced residual stress and improved flatness compared to conventional spray and laminar systems.

MULPIC®’s flexible, modular design allows it to be integrated with existing cooling systems to form hybrid systems. This enables higher cooling rates, improved flatness and an expanded product range with minimal capital expenditure. Such systems have allowed the production of up to 500 Brinell Hardness abrasion resistant steel plates online as well as providing significant alloy savings on micro-alloyed steel plates.

With the increasing importance of steel production’s impact on the environment, many of MULPIC®’s unique technological design features have been optimized to support sustainably greener steel production.

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