Tata Steel has completed a major upgrade of the Hot
Strip Mill at its Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales, enabling it to
further improve the quality of its steel products used in a wide range
of markets, including automotive, engineering, construction and domestic
appliances.
The upgrade was focused on the
installation of a new £25 million ‘reversing rougher’ - a key part of
the process which transforms a 9-inch (23cm) thick slab of steel into
sheet less than an inch (2.5cm) thick. The reversing rougher is believed
to be the most powerful in Europe, with two new 12.5 MW motors, each
equivalent to 17,000hp or the power of about 150 cars.
The
upgrade of the Hot Strip Mill follows investments totalling more than
£250 million in state-of-the-art steelmaking and processing technology
at the South Wales operations.
The Hot Strip Mill
is a vital plant area in the Port Talbot steelworks where steel is
rolled into continuous strip, forming ‘hot rolled coil’. The steel is
further processed at Tata Steel sites in Wales and England, before being
delivered to manufacturers of cars, food and drink cans, building
materials and kitchen appliances.
Tata Steel, the
flagship company of the Tata group is the first integrated steel plant
in Asia and is now the world’s second most geographically diversified
steel producer and a Fortune 500 Company.
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