Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel Co., Ltd. (VAMA), an automotive steel joint venture between global steel giant ArcelorMittal and China-based Valin Group, to supply a combined pickling line and tandem cold rolling mill.
The line is part of a new cold rolling complex being built at Loudi in the Chinese province of Hunan. After the first stage of construction, the line will produce 1.5 million mt of cold rolled strip per year, primarily for the automotive industry. The line can be expanded to produce an annual volume of two million mt. The start-up of the new pickling line and tandem cold rolling mill is scheduled for mid-2014.
The strip entry thickness lies between 1.8 and 6.0 mm, and the final thickness ranges between 0.5 and 2.5 mm. Strip widths range between 900 and 1,890 mm. The maximum rolling speed will reach 1,400 m/min.