Manufacturing Process
Standard full production line, strict process quality control
Manufacturing
Introduction to Manufacturing Process
Our steel manufacturing process is exquisite and advanced. From the selection of raw materials to smelting, forging, rolling and other processes, industry-leading technology is adopted.
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1.Uncoiling and Straightening: We need to have our carefully-selected steel plates of top quality straightened using the straightening machine to make them flat and straight, which lays a solid foundation for subsequent forming and welding.
2.Forming: Under the action of the forming machine, the steel plates pass through multiple passes of forming rollers and are gradually curled into a tube shape. During the molding process, it is crucial to control the spacing and speed of the rollers to ensure the accuracy of the tube diameter and wall thickness.
1. Billet Conditioning: This process is intended for checking the surface quality of billet and removing any defects. Shot blast is used to remove any scale from the surface. Magnet particle testing and visual inspection are also used to identify any defects which must be removed using a grinder. Ultrasonic testing and dimension and geometry checking are also applied as part of the internal quality assurance process.
2. Reheating: The temperature within the furnace and the duration of reheating depend on where the product will be used. To avoid decarburization, which can affect the surface quality of the product, a billet is pre-heated sufficiently at a low temperature before being rolled within the reheating furnace. For this purpose, the fuel and air ratio are strictly controlled.
1. Rolling: The 4-high reversible finishing mill with the maximum load of 7000 tons minimizes internal defects even inly thick plates. Automatic gauge control and shape control systems can reduce not only the thickness deviation of plates but also improve the flatness.
2. Cooling: The cooling system enables the production of high strength steel without heat treatment through rolling and accelerated cooling. Using the mist cooling method with suction type, the system has a high cooling capacity and is able to maintain a uniform temperature gradient in the widthwise direction. This leads to a reduction of plate quality deviation.
1. Steel Making: Steelmaking has the greatest impact on the quality and cost of steel products. We has state-of-the-art AOD, VOD and continuous casting facilities..
2. Hot Rolling: Slabs made in the steelmaking plant are rolled into black coils of highly refined thickness and shape before being made into white coils to the needs of customers through heat treatment, pickling and finishing in the annealing and pickling plant. White coils so produced are used for cold rolling, pipes and sheets.
1. Reheating: Hot rolled coils pass through a pickling line, where scale breaker machines and hydrochloric acid solutions are used to remove any surface scale and/or oxide film that which causes surface flaws during the final stage of cold rolled steel processing.
2. Roughing: In this process, slabs whose surface scale share has been removed are made into rolled materials with the proper shape, thickness, and width. In the entry and exit area of the roughing mill, an edger rolls the strip in the width direction using an Automatic Width Control (AWC) system.
1. Preliminary Annealing: During the preliminary annealing process, a scale which may have formed on the hot rolled steel is removed as delayed passing through scale breaker and a hydrochloric acid bath. This initial heat treatment process improves the cold rolling properties of steel as well as its magnetic properties.
2. Cold Rolling: In order to obtain specific thickness and material properties, a reduction ratio of 40-90% is applied normally. Rolling and edge trimming machines are automatically controlled to obtain uniform thickness and width.
1. Pickling: Hot rolled coils pass through a pickling line, where scale breaker machines and hydrochloric acid solutions are used to remove any surface scale and/or oxide film that which causes surface flaws during the final stage of cold rolled steel processing.
2. Cold Rolling: Pickled coils are cold rolled in tandem mills to a specified thickness, typically 40 to 90%, of original material dimensions. Fully automated shape adjustment is ensured through state of the art process machinery.
1. Pre-Treatment Process: Some rolling oil and other contaminants remain on the surface of cold rolled steel sheets following processing. These are removed by passing the electrically charged sheet through an alkaline solution which induces an electrochemical reaction.
2. Annealing: The material properties of the pre-treated steel sheet can be altered and improved through recrystallization during the annealing process.
1. lnput Process: Equipment at the entry point of the electrogalvanizing line consists of a pay-off reel, a shearing M/C, a welding M/C, a looper and a tension leveler. The pay-off reel transports stacked or cold rolled steel materials to the shearing machine which cuts and connects them in preparation for welding. Then comes the welding.
2. Pre-Treatment Process: An electrolytic cleaning line consists of an electrolysis tank, an acid bath and a rinse tank to remove contaminants and oxide films from the surface of the steel before electroplating.