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the first order, a new Pickling line and tandem cold the galvanizing and color-coated strip produced in
Mill -PltcM and temper mill, will complete the QSP- crawfordsville with the new lines will serve markets for
DUe® quality hot-strip plant just awarded to Danieli steel buildings.
and to be installed in West Virginia. Danieli Automation will provide advanced process

the new PltcM plant will process 2.3 Mshtpy of hot- control systems to supervise operations, running the
rolled strip, 0.80- to 6.35-mm-thick, up to 1,982-mm- lines in automatic mode, guaranteeing quality and
wide, into 0.25- to 3.05-mm-thick cold-rolled strip for production consistency.
both construction and automotive products. Startups are scheduled for the end of 2024 for the
PltcM and temper mill in West Virgina and also for the
The pickling line will be characterized by the patented
turboflo® technology, for highly efficient scale removal galvanizing and strip-processing lines in Crawfordsville.
and high- and adjustable-turbulence on both strip Jindal Shadeedsecures Green Hydrogen for
surfaces, at speeds up to 250 m/min. Steelmaking
coupled with the pickling line, a five-stand tandem cold Oman’s Jindal Shadeed Iron and Steel (JSIS) and
mill featuring Danieli original, 6-hi Optimized Shaped Sohar Port and Freezone are partnering with Munich-
Roll technology (OSRt) will ensure optimal strip based green energy firm hydrogen Rise for production
flatness, thickness control and performance stability at of “green” steel using green hydrogen, a first in Oman,
speeds up to 1,200 m/min. Kallanish understands.
Planned initially as a modest-scale venture, the project
A 0.45 Mshtpy stand-alone temper mill to improve is proposed to be ramped up in the future. It is slated for
material formability, flatness and surface finish grades commissioning as early as by 2024.
in wet tempering mode will complete the Danieli supply
for this new cold-mill complex. Following a techno-economic feasibility study, the first
phase will include a bankable starting size of 35MW
A second order for cold-strip technology has been electrolysis, with a possible step by step scaling up
placed with Danieli for the supply of a galvanizing line path to 350MW. hydrogen Rise, which has a well-
and a color-coating line to be installed at the existing established presence in the Sultanate of Oman, will
plant in crawfordsville, Indiana. develop, build and operate the green hydrogen facility
at Sohar to supply JSIS with its energy requirements,
Featuring Kohler’s X-jet zinc air-wiping system for
quality and coating weight control and Danieli centro In 2020, the German firm set up hydrogen Rise llc
Combustion horizontal annealing furnace, the line will in Oman, with the goal of creating joint ventures with
process 1,575-mm-wide and 0.25-1.75-mm-thick strip Omani private investors to plan, develop, build and
with galvanized (GI) and galvalume (GL) coatings. operate green hydrogen production plants in the
Danieli X-Jet technology allows for extremely accurate country.
and uniform final zinc coating-thickness control, down to In January this year, JSJS renewed its contract with
36 g/m2 per side at 170 mpm. A Q-Robot Zinc will skim harsco’s environmental division for slag management
the surface of the zinc bath, removing and handling and metal recovery, aimed at reducing carbon footprint
dross, reducing human activity in the zinc-pot area. (see Kallanish passim).
the color-coating line will produce 0.25 Mshtpy of Sohar-based JSIS’s 2.4 Mt annual capacity electric
coated strip up to 1,575 mm wide and 0.25-1.75 mm arc furnace meltshop feeds both square and round
thick. the design of the prime and finish coaters will billet casters. the works also has a 1.8m t/y hot-DRI/
be based on the most recent iteration of Danieli Fata hBI plant and a 1.4m t/y rebar mill. In 2019 Shadeed
hunter’s single-slide technology and integrated with commissioned a new SMS-supplied high-speed billet
dry-film thickness measurement sensors to provide a caster with eight strands and fully equipped with vacuum
closed-loop control for higher coating repeatability and degassing facility to produce SBQ steel grades.
limited operator intervention. Source:Kallanish

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