Title

NEW PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH PRODUCTIVITY STAINLESS STEEL STRIP ROUTE

Authorship

Mauuary, Stanislas; Faure, Jean-Paul

Mauuary, Stanislas

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Faure, Jean-Paul

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DOI

10.5151/1983-4764-27743

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Abstract

Price pressure is a real challenge on the stainless steel market. With market globalization, increase production capacity and exorbitant raw material, the margins are squeezing for stainless strip producers. Primetals Technologies offers a wide range of advanced technological solutions to secure the margins of our customers. Our solutions, implemented with professional project management, allow an optimum coil to market time, securing then the return on investment for the investor. Among the possible lever used to optimize the production route, one drastic step can be made to cut rolling time and cost by replacing the common 20-Hi mill stand reversing process by state of art high capacity X-HI® stands in continuous rolling line. Other source of savings can be implemented by integrated several process steps together (rolling, annealing, pickling, skin passing), achieving then savings on stocks and logistics while coil processing is reduced to fraction of hour. Additional solutions can also be implemented on the new, as well as existing line, like maintenance free solid state laser welder, skin-pass and tension levelers, in-line inspection system coupled with process and quality management system.

Keywords

Rolling, Stainless steel, Z-high, X-HI

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