Canieli Co.

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800 Cranberry Woods Dr., Ste. 400, P.O. Box 180
Cranberry Twp., PA 16066
U.S.

Phone: 724-778-5400
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Danieli QSP: success continues
Two contracts signed in three days at Baosteel Meishan, P.R. of China, and Lucchini (Severstal Group) in Italy bring to 80% Danieli’s market share for Thin Slab Casting and Rolling plants in the last two years.
Moreover, the extremely demanding targets of these two projects confirm that the world’s top steelmakers trust Danieli’s innovative technologies and reliability to set new and advanced market standards.

Baosteel Group Shanghai Meishan Co. Ltd.
According to the agreement with Baosteel Co., Ltd. signed on 30 June, 2008, Danieli will supply the main operation line for the Meishan Thin Slab Continuous Casting and Rolling Project (BSP), one of the most important projects in the eleventh Five-Year Plan of Baosteel Co., Ltd.
This will mark Baosteel’s first introduction to the technology for continuous casting and rolling of thin slabs, to produce up to 2.5 Mtpy of low-, medium-, high-carbon, peritectic steel grades, and HSLA grades.
Moreover, about 25% of the production is made up of Si-steel NOG grades, with a Si content of up to 3.2%.
Major targets of the BSP project are plant flexibility and capacity of production of silicon NOG grades, as well as low transformation costs.
The new production line will be located in Meishan works, and will be based on Danieli’s QSP-Quality Strip Plant consolidated design concept and technology.

Flexible Thin Slab continuous Caster (fTSC)
The casting plant consists of a twin-strand thin slab caster conceived for the production of 70 mm and 55 mm thick slabs (after Dynamic Soft Reduction), 900 to 1650 mm wide.
The caster design features the well-known Danieli vertical-curved concept, makes available a wide thickness range, and allows optimized casting conditions according to the productivity and quality requirements of the mill, depending of the steel grades and strip thickness produced.
The Meishan BSP caster will include all the cutting edge Danieli technological solutions embodied in the Danieli fTSC concept (flexible Thin Slab Casting) for thin slab production, such as:
> The patented, long-funnel Danieli H2 (High quality, High speed) mold;
> INMO hydraulic oscillation design;
> Complete thermal mapping in mold;
> Dynamic soft reduction based on Liquid Pool positioning mathematical model;
> Dynamic air-mist secondary cooling.

Moreover, the caster represents one of the first applications of Danieli’s fourth-generation fTSC concept, specifically designed for high-speed applications, featuring:
> innovative roll diagram dynamic bulging-free;
> advanced “high efficiency” new concept in secondary cooling.

Compact hot strip mill
The hot strip mill will produce strips 900 to 1,650 mm wide and 1.0 - 6.35 (12.7) mm thick strip in coils weighing up to 30 t.
The compact plant configuration is based on a two-stand non-reversing rougher coupled with a five-stand finishing mill, and also will include:
> high pressure descaler;
> vertical edger;
> drum crop shear;
> Intensive strip cooling and descaler;
> 29 WaterWall cooling headers;
> two downcoilers;
> Coil conveyor system.

Electrics and automation
Danieli Automation will design and supply all automation and process control systems for the casting and rolling areas, providing the customer with an integrated and optimized system configuration that will improve plant efficiency.

According to Baosteel-Meishan plans, the new facility will be put in operation by end of 2010.