German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Germany-based ArcelorMittal Bremen has placed an order with SMS Logistiksysteme for the supply of a fully automated sampling station for X-grade line pipe steels, including a connected packaging line.
The new line scheduled to be commissioned in autumn 2014 will be able to cut strip thicknesses of 1.5 to 28.3 mm.
With the new plant, ArcelorMittal Bremen, a producer of high-strength steel grades, will be able to boost its production as a result of shorter throughput times in the areas of sampling and packaging and process shipping orders "just in time".