UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that Turkish steel producer Tosyali-Toyo Celik, a joint venture of Turkish flats, longs and pipe producer Tosyali Holdings and the Japanese steel producer Toyo Kohan, has started operations at its cold rolling complex supplied by Primetals Technologies at the production site in the city of Osmaniye in Turkey.
According to Primetals, the cold rolling complex consists of a coupled pickling line-tandem cold mill (PL-TCM), a tin-plated steel-sheet continuous annealing line (Tin-CAL) and a temper double-cold-reduction (Temper/ DCR) mill. It is designed to produce cold rolled tin-plated, hot dip galvanized and painted sheets, mainly for export markets as well as for the domestic market. This marks the expansion of Tosyali into the flat product sector. The Tin-CAL has an annual production capacity of 240,000 metric tons and further processes strip produced by the PL-TCM with a maximum strip thickness of 0.8 mm, while the temper DCR has an annual production capacity of 303,000 metric tons.