One year after starting up its spooler rolling mill, Elbe Stahlwerke Feralpi (Feralpi Stahl) is positive about an expansion of its production capacity.
The German rebar mill of Italy’s Feralpi group intends to increase its output capacity from around 1 million tonnes/year to 1.3m t/y of rolled products. The basis for the expansion is the full operation of its new rolling mill.
The technology, supplied by Danieli, enables a new production method for rebar in coil. In the spooler plant, wire rod is processed directly from the rolling vein into a spooled ring. Previously, this was a two-stage process of hot rolling and cold stretching, followed by spooling.
“The spooler mill is the prerequisite to lift our output to a new level, now that we see that the new product is gaining ground on the market,” says managing director Uwe Reinecke.
The mill, located in Riesa, Saxony, was officially started on 15 May last year and has since been run up to two-shift operation. It has so far produced around 850,000t. The spooler mill in full operation would add another 400-450,000t/y.
For this year, the management envisages an output of 1mt, Reinecke has previously told Kallanish (see Kallanish 16 April 2026). Next year, the spooler mill will be shifted into three-shift operation.
