LOI Thermprocess, a company of the LOI Italimpianti Group, received
a contract from Russian steel company NLMK for the supply of a new HPH® bell-type
annealing plant. Under the contract, LOI is to supply 23 annealing bases, 12 gas-fired
heating hoods and 10 cooling hoods, including all the necessary ancillary
facilities for the company's Lipetsk plant. The HPH bell-type annealing
furnaces will be used to anneal cold-rolled coils of low-carbon and low-alloy thin
sheet up to a width of 1,850 mm (72. 8 inches) and a maximum thickness of 2.6
mm (0.1 inches). Each base will have a maximum stack height of 5,600 mm (220.5
inches) and a maximum stack weight of 150 tons. The capacity of the entire
plant is to be 480,000 tons per year.
NLMK is investing in the modernization of its bell-type
annealing plant. The project is to be implemented in two stages, with the first
stage due for completion in the first quarter of 2013 and the second in the
third quarter of 2013. LOI Thermprocess is also supplying the complete control
system for the plant, featuring a Siemens S7-300 PLC and the advanced ProView® system,
which will control all 23 bases and optimize the throughput of each individual
base and the entire plant.
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