UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it has recently received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for a plate finishing mill at Kobe Steel’s plant in Kakogawa, Japan. Kobe Steel ordered this rolling mill to implement state-of-the-art equipment to improve product quality and further enhance its already short and stable delivery times.
Primetals Technologies managed to deliver and implement the mill on schedule although the project started while supply chains and many other processes still were heavily affected by restrictions and constrains related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Primetals said that the new finishing mill processes plates with thicknesses from 4.5 to 360 millimeters at widths of 1,000 to 4,500 millimeters, enabling Kobe Steel to enhance mill performance both in terms of product quality and delivery times while increasing its competitiveness within the steel plate industry.