Greek steelmaker Sovel has awarded Danieli Automation the order to modernise the entire electrical and automation system of its bar mill in Almyros, Magnissia, Kallanish notes.
The aim of the project is to increase production safety, stability and reliability, so the unit will be ready for the future, by replacing obsolete hardware equipment with new and modern Danieli Automation devices and advanced process controls, the supplier claims.
The unit is a single-strand bar rolling mill with slitting in a single line for medium bar diameters, and a double line with fast-finishing blocks, quenching, tail breakers and double twin channels for high-speed production of smaller sizes.
The project, complying with the European Machine Directive, will be implemented by August 2025.
Sovel is an electric arc furnace steel plant. It began operating as part of the Sidenor Group in 2001. In 2007, it commissioned a new direct scrap-feeding system, Consteel, which reduces energy used for pre-heating scrap. In 2022, Sidenor disclosed plans to install a 6 MW photovoltaic array at the Sovel plant.
Sovel produces concrete reinforcing grades in bars and spooled coils, wire rod, rebar merchant bar, and several other products for construction projects, for various industrial applications. It has a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes/year.
Greece produced 130,000 tonnes of crude steel in November, according to worldsteel data. January-November volumes amounted to 1.27mt compared to 1.09mt in the same period last year.
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