Danieli awarded supply contract for research rolling mill by RUSAL

Danieli, one of the leading suppliers of equipment and plants to the metal industry, has announced that it will supply a rolling mill specifically for conducting research to RUSAL. The company will install the new rolling mill at RUSAL’s Engineering and Technology Center in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. 

Danieli said in its press release that the new rolling  mill will allow RUSAL researchers to perform and accelerate the development of new aluminium alloys and processes in the most comprehensive, efficient and economical way.

“One of the major requirements of the requested mill is the flexibility to replicate all potential rolling operations, ranging from hot rolling of thick ingots to cold rolling of thin sheets.” 

“The technical solution to roll the requested aluminium alloys consists of a 2-high single-stand combined hot/cold reversing mill with a rolling width of 500 mm, to roll thicknesses from 100 to 1 mm.”

Last month, Rusal Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter had ordered a new billet and slab homogenizing furnace from Danieli Olivotto Ferrè. The new furnace was designed for homogenizing of slabs and billets of all aluminium alloys in series 1 to 9.