A new flat steel complex consisting of a high performance hot strip mill, a combined pickling line-tandem cold mill, two annealing lines and a hot-dip galvanizing line has started production. SMS group’s scope of supply is rounded off by a complex comprising a continuous caster and a steckel/plate mill, the order for which was placed in spring 2017.
Shandong Iron & Steel Group Rizhao uses the new equipment to focus production on strip grades for the automotive industry. To reliably meet the particularly high requirements of this trade, SMS group implemented its innovative Product Quality Analyzer (PQA®), a quality management system covering all production processes from steelmaking up to the final galvanized strip (documentation, monitoring and ensuring).