Stainless Annealing and Pickling Lines
Stainless Annealing and Pickling Lines

STAINLESS ANNEALING AND PICKLING LINES — EFFICIENT, RELIABLE, ECONOMIC

Stainless Lines combine the traditionally separate processes of annealing and pickling, skin passing, and leveling in one integrated line.

Primetals Technologies’ Stainless Annealing and Pickling Lines (APL) include various combinations of processes, such as annealing, pickling, skin passing, and leveling, and can be designed for hot-rolled and/or for cold-rolled products.

STAINESS ANNEALING AND PICKLING LINES

Primetals Technologies' terminal and mechatronic equipment have been specially designed to process stainless steels, focusing on the highly demanding surface finish. The annealing section is of tunnel type furnace with unfired pre-heat first stage, fume heat recovery, high-efficiency and low-NOx burners. The chemical section features high-turbulence tanks, electrolytic tanks, and brush scrubbers. For hot-rolled products (HAPL), shot blasting equipment and a Scale Breaker are installed between the furnace and pickle section to help with oxide removal. For cold-rolled products (CAPL), a multistage cleaning section is installed upstream of the furnace.

Main benefits

  • High maximum process speed
  • Low operating costs
  • Multistage cleaning section with spray and brushes and cascade rinsing
  • High-efficiency and low-NOx burners
  • Fume heat recovery
  • Shot blasting with frequency-controlled wheels
  • Optimum pickling: high turbulence and electrolytic pickling tanks
  • Strip surface finish quality with 2 highly polished Skin-Pass Mill rolls with in-line roll polishers
     

Mechatronic machines for Stainless Annealing and Pickling lines

In-house mechatronic machines designed, assembled and tested in our Primetals Technologies workshops:

  • Wet or Dry Tension Leveler and Scale Breaker (more than 400 references worldwide)
  • 2-Hi Skin-Pass Mill with automatic roll change and polishing unit
  • Turret-type Side Trimmer, EdgeMon® (edge monitoring), and Scrap Chopper

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Complete automation and process control for Stainless Annealing and Pickling Lines

Plant productivity and product quality are substantially depending on the quality of plant automation, process control, and available process optimization functions. To get the best performance out of a plant, Primetals Technologies provides add-on specific optimization solutions for further improvement of production efficiency and strip quality, besides standardized high performance automation system.

Throughput maximization with:

Excellent Strip quality with:

TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION PACKAGES

Get striking results with incremental investments

NameShort Description
Integrated Solenoid Valve (ISV) Spray System ISV Roll coolant spray bars for hot and cold rolling mill strip flatness control
EdgeMon Inspection of side-trimmed strip edge surface for steel pickling and processing lines and aluminum rolling

Reference Story: High-productivity stainless steel cold rolling complex

Customer
Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd., Kashima, Japan

Plant type
Annealing and Pickling Line for Stainless steel

Technical Data
Strip thickness: 2.0 – 5.0 mm
Exit Strip width (Max): 1300 mm
Line Speed (Max): 32 m/min

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