UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it has received the final acceptance certificate from Chinese steel producer Rizhao Steel Group Co., Ltd for the new continuous pickling line supplied by Primetals Technologies. The continuous pickling line is part of a new cold rolling complex in the city of Rizhao in Shandong Province and designed to process around two million metric tons of hot strip per year.
The continuous pickling line processes not only ductile and forming steels, but also two-phase steels and HSLA grades. The line can pickle hot strip with thicknesses ranging from 0.8 millimeters to four millimeters, and widths from 900 millimeters to 1,600 millimeters, and handle coils weighing up to 35 metric tons.