German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will deliver a heat treatment line and revamp a stainless steel annealing and picking line for the Slovenian steelmaker Acroni.
As part of the heat treatment line, SMS Siemag will, for the first time, install the newly developed MultiFlex-Quench, which offers an outstandingly high degree of flexibility and high cooling efficiencies in the heat treatment of heavy plate. The line will be designed for plates with thicknesses ranging from 3 to 100 mm. This new heat treatment line will enable Acroni to further expand its product portfolio.
SMS Siemag stated that the aim of the modernization of the annealing and pickling line is to reduce the burden on the environment during the manufacture of strips made of non-grain oriented silicon grades, carbon steels and ferritic special steels.
The commissioning of the lines are scheduled for 2016.
Acroni, a company of the Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ), is a highly specialized niche supplier focusing on plates and strips made of stainless grades, tool steels, abrasion-resistant steels and high strength low alloy steel grades.