UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from China-based steelmaker Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co. Ltd, a part of Hebei Iron and Steel Group, to supply two continuous galvanizing lines to expand the cold rolling mill No. 2 at its Tangshan plant in Hebei Province. The two new continuous galvanizing lines are scheduled to come into operation in 2017.
The cold rolling mill No. 2 has an annual capacity of 1.8 million metric tons of high-strength cold rolled strip, and also produces high-quality steels for the Chinese automotive industry. The two galvanizing lines now ordered from Primetals Technologies are part of the second expansion stage intended to create production capacities for these high-quality steel grades. With the new galvanizing lines, the company expects to increase its production capacity for high-strength coated metal sheets by 650,000 metric tons per year to be used in the automotive industry.