Toppings Steckel Mill Technology and Features:

Steckel mill technology, represents the highest level of mill technology. TET's Steckel Mill product has multiple advantages. Firstly it meet's the plate rolling of steel coil/strip thickness, whilst at the same time it satisfies the needs of different rolling materials in demand, such as low carbon steel, high strength steel and stainless steel plates. It is flexible to changes in the specifications of products and has wide adaptability for products.

Through years of the accumulation of experience, TET has the relevent expertise to provide its customers with the most reliable Steckel Mills. These include all the products in the production processes from, mechanical design, hydraulic systems, electrical and automation system design and manufacturing,all to a world-class level.

The Modern Steckel Mill has the following advantages (1) Lower initial investment, the construction and equipment are both relatively cheap. (2) Steckel Mill have the flexibility to produce a wide range of products. (3) Construction takes a short period of time which makes its management easily suited to small-scale production eg. less than 1 million tons / year of production.(4) Steckel Mill Rolling is also suitable for production of special steel.(5) Also worldwide, about half of the stainless steel is produced by Steckel mill production.(6) Steckel Mill production can produce high-strength steel and super alloys.

In addition to the economic advantages of scale, the technical perspective Steckel Mill bring also has the following advantages : (1) The mill can be up and running without finishing several rack restrictions (2) Timely re-setting of mill and parameters to adjust thickness and flatness differential (3) The use of a patented shear Pinch Roller not only avoids expensive crop flying shear, furthermore, it can also be used to roll thinner pieces for the first cut, which greatly improves the recovery rate

The development of technology and improvement of modern Steckel mill to meet the following standards:

Max volume density 19 kg / mm.

Operating costs equal to hot strip mill.

Admission rate (from slab to finished product) of up to 96-97.5%

The thinnest strip of up to 1.2 mm.

98% of the volume with the length meet 1/4ASTM or JIS width of the thickness tolerances.

99% of the volume with the length meet 1/2ASTM or JIS width of the thickness tolerances.

Finishing temperature to 98% of the strip length would be within ± 25 ° C.

Coiling temperature in the temperature requirements of ± 15° C.

Mill efficiency and hot strip mill mutual rival.

For years, the worldwide construction of the Steckel mill, has dominated the hot strip mill. The trend has become even more evident in developed countries. In North America the two most profitable steel companies are using the Steckel mill production facilities (OREGON IPSCO Steel). They are leading figure for the entire north American continent in term of profit. IPSCO recently have continued to expand it's Steckel mill capacity, which already has two Steckel mill, it is still a major investment in the construction of the third Taiwan Steckel Mill. China Kumming Iron and Steel Group company has commissioned of TIPPINS the construction of a two rack Steckel Mill production line. The success of these mills has proved Steckel Mill a good market prospect for development.

The latest development Two Stand Reversing Steckel Mill This mill is ideal for rolling thin strips and has the following advantages. Kumming Steel and the Czech's Nova Hut Corporation, possess the capabilities of reaching 1.2 million tons /year. Investment saving, Rolling line is the shortest (or even more than single Steckel rolling shorter), its total length from the centreline of the stove coiling machine is only 105 meters, this greatly reduces the cost of the land and plant construction. The mill maintains high production efficiency. Two mill often work, unlike a +1 layout, where as the rough mill has only about 25% utilization. It reduce the amount of coiling, six times for a number of mill coiling reduced from five times, reduce the number of coiling can effectively reduce the strip surface damage, rolling to shorten the time rolling. The mill Improves efficiency by the improved strip vertical distribution of temperature, can produce thinner strips, lower production costs, and Steckel Reel reduces consumption, and reduces heat consumption. Improved inter rack and mill / steckel Reel tension between the middle edger can compress plate blank width, and can in the future maintain road strip on the edge formation.

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