Siemens to supply two long product rolling mills for new Evraz Group facilities in Russia and Kazakhstan

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies received orders from the Russian Evraz Group to supply two long product rolling mills for two of the company´s new production facilities. A greenfield plant with an annual capacity of 450,000 t of bars, sections and spooled bars will be installed in the southern Russian town of Ust-Donetsk, Rostov Region, a second greenfield plant to roll rebars with annual capacity of 450,000 t, will be built in Kostanay, Kazakhstan. The combined order value amounts to a mid-range double-digit million Euro figure. The two plants are scheduled to be in production in 2013. For both facilities, Siemens will supply the mechanical process equipment, a re-heating furnace, a water treatment plant, the fluids systems as well as the electric and automation systems.

The Evraz plant in Ust-Donetsk, Russia, will have a design capacity of 315,000 t of bars and 135,000 t of angles and channels per year. The rolling line will comprise a walking hearth furnace, a continuous rolling mill with 18 Red Ring stands and quick-change system in the finishing area, a cooling bed, straightening and cutting machines and finishing equipment for bundling, tying and dispatching. Bars are in-line quenched for enhancing the mechanical properties. The plant will be able to produce reinforced steel in bars of 10 to 40 mm diameter, spooled bars of 10 to 16 mm diameter and sections. Smaller diameters will be produced via a multi slitting process to maximize productivity. The spooled bars will be produced on a spooling line operating at a maximum finishing speed of 23 m/s, with a four-stand finishing monoblock, shears, in-line cooling, two spooling machines, as well as automatic tying and weighing machines.

The rolling line in Kostanay, Kazakhstan, will consist of a walking hearth furnace, a continuous rolling mill with 18 Red Ring stands and quick-change system in the finishing line, in-line quenching, a cooling bed, cutting machines and finishing equipment for bundling, tying and dispatching. The mill will produce rebar with diameters of 10 to 40 mm in single, two-slit or three-slit rolling mode and features an in-line cooling system.

For both rolling mills, Siemens will also supply the complete electrical and automation equipment based on the Siroll concept for long rolling mills, including main transformers, main and auxiliary drives and motors. An integrated automation system will control the rolling mill line and the water treatment system. Material flow will be managed by a level 2 control system.

Further information about solutions for steel works, rolling mills and processing lines is available at http://www.siemens.com/metals

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(Multi slit rolling line by Siemens VAI)

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