Siemens to supply steel drives to China
Siemen’s Metals Technologies division has received an order from Shougang Jingtang United Iron and Steel to supply the electrical engineering equipment for three new strip-treatment lines. The value of the order totals approximately €18m and the treatment lines are scheduled to start production in the spring of 2009.
The deal includes the basic and process automation and all of the drive systems for a continuous-annealing line and two hot-dip-galvanising lines. This will be the first time Sinamics type speed-controlled drive systems will be used in a Chinese steelworks.
As part of Shougang Jingtang’s efforts to improve the local environmental situation, the company is moving its production facilities from inside the city limits of Peking to a new location not far from Tianjin. Here, a new steel-production complex with an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes is being built on an artificial peninsula near Caofeidian. From 2009 onwards, structural steel, white goods and starting material for the regional automotive industry will be produced here.
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