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housed within a hall, further reducing from Torch-Cutting Technologies more than 40 million tonnes of scrap
noise emissions. (TCT), a Spanish company acquired have been recycled at LSW’s facilities. A
by Primetals Technologies in August key supplier to the automotive industry
2023. TCT is widely recognised for its and its subcontractors, LSW operates
LEADING EXPERTISE competences in torch cutting and offers two electric arc furnaces at its site in
IN TORCH-CUTTING a broad range of innovative solutions Southern Germany.
for cutting applications in steel plants,
rolling mills, forging shops, foundries, Key Facts: LSW’s Torch Cutting Facility
The scrap torch-cutting machine at and scrap yards. Capacity: 500 tons per day
LSW can handle various types of Maximum thickness: 700 millimeters
scrap, including billets and bundles of With approximately 800 employees, LSW Noise outside cutting cabin: below 90
rolled bar, as well as tundish scull. This produces over one million tons of raw decibels
technology was developed by experts steel annually. Since the first heat in 1972,

PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES RECEIVES

FOLLOW-UP ORDER FOR NEW MILLSTAND DRIVES

AT COLD ROLLING MILL IN FINLAND

• SSAB places additional order for comprehensive millstand modernisation after successful upgrade of stand No. 1
• Complete drive system at tandem cold mill to meet most modern standards
• Equipment scheduled to be fully implemented by May 2026

n early Spring 2023, Primetals
Technologies implemented millstand
Idrives for stand No. 1 at SSAB’s
4-stand tandem cold rolling mill in
Hämeenlinna, Finland. Phase 2 of the
millstand drive modernisation was
executed in late 2023, and recently,
Primetals Technologies received the final
acceptance certificate (FAC) from SSAB.
Following the successful Phase 1 and 2
projects, SSAB has now tasked Primetals
Technologies with Phase 3 to 5 of the
upgrade.
A SMOOTH
INTEGRATION OF
NEW SYSTEMS

SSAB Hämeenlinna has placed a follow-up order with Primetals Technologies for a modernisation of
the millstands at its cold rolling mill in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Photo of the steel producers’ tandem
During Phase 1 of the modernisation, cold rolling mill.

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