
Primetals Technologies, an engineering and plant construction company for metals industry, has announced it received an order from from Ulsan Aluminum Ltd., a rolled aluminium producer, for the supply of new automation technology to the company's hot rolling mill and cold rolling mill no. 2 in Ulsan in the southeast of Korea.
Primetals Technologies will be responsible for the installation, commissioning and fine adjustment of the automation technology in both rolling mills. The new technology will improve the reliability and availability of the rolling mills. The modernization is planned to be completed by the end of 2018.
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source:www.primetals.com
The Ulsan plant produces rolled aluminium plates for the Asian markets of the beverage and electronics industries, the transportation sector and the construction business. Ulsan Aluminum Ltd. was founded by Novelis and Kobe Steel as a joint venture company in 2017.
Primetals Technologies will supply a new automation system for the hot rolling mill, including the automation platform, technological control systems (TCS), for example automatic gauge control (AGC), hydraulic gap control (HGC), work roll bending, as well as the data acquisition and the associated operator control and monitoring system. The company will provide technological control system for Cold rolling mill no. 2.
Headquartered in London, Primetals Technologies is a joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Siemens. Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery (MHMM) - an MHI consolidated group company with equity participation by Hitachi, Ltd. and the IHI Corporation - holds a 51% stake and Siemens a 49% stake in the joint venture.
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