UK-based plantmaker Primetals Technologies has announced that it will supply a new hot strip mill and a new hot skin pass mill for the Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas production site of the Mexican steel producer ArcelorMittal Mexico S.A. de C.V. The new mills will enable the company to process the slabs produced in its works on site. The start-up of the hot strip mill and the hot skin pass mill is planned for 2020.
Primetals Technologies stated that the design capacity of the hot strip mill is 2.5 million metric tons of hot strips per year, while the hot skin pass mill will be designed to process 650,000 metric tons per year.