UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that Tata Steel Europe, the European unit of the India-based steel giant Tata Steel, has commissioned its modernized hot strip mill at Port Talbot, in UK, which was upgraded with a new transfer bar cooling system by Primetals Technologies.
According to Primetals, the purpose of the cooling system, installed after the roughing mill, is the precise control of the strip temperature before it enters the finishing mill, without having to slow down the roughing mill. This results in an increase of production capacity by approximately 150,000 metric tons of hot strip per year.