Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has announced the receipt of an order from German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp to install a new intensive-cooling unit in its hot-strip mill 2 in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth.
Accordingly, the new ‘power cooling' process, developed by Siemens VAI, will allow ThyssenKrupp to reliably cool high- and highest-strength steels for a wide range of strip thicknesses. This will enable additional steel types to be efficiently produced with a high degree of precision. The intensive cooling unit, the technology for which is for the first time applied by Siemens, is scheduled to commence operation in December 2010.
ThyssenKrupp's hot strip mill 2 in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth rolls six million mt of steel per annum, which is one of the highest mill outputs in the world. A rolling modernization program enables ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to produce numerous types of modern, high-quality steels for use in the automotive industry and for pipe production.