Allegheny Technologies Inc. orders integrated hot rolling mill

Specialty metal producer Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) has awarded a major contract to Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Siemens VAI) to design, engineer and supply a complete integrated hot rolling mill on a process turn-key basis. The new mill will be part of a new advanced specialty metals hot rolling and processing facility and will be built at ATI Allegheny Ludlum in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, US.
 
The new rolling mill will be capable of rolling a wide range of stainless steels and other specialty alloys at widths exceeding 2,000 mm. The rolling forces will be the highest ever to be applied in a hot-strip mill.
 
The integrated facility is designed to produce a product mix for ATI Allegheny Ludlum that includes stainless alloys, grain-oriented electrical steel, titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys, zirconium alloys and other specialty alloys. Strip, sheet and plate products will be able to be produced on this line.