Thai Canadoil Orders 5-meter Wide Plate Mill from Siemens

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Canadoil Plate Ltd to supply equipment for a new 5 meter plate mill in Thailand. For the mill, Siemens is supplying a high pressure descaler, finishing mill stand with a maximum rolling force of 10,000 tonnes, comprising of a hydraulic roll gap control system and SmartCrown work roll bending and shifting system. A Mulpic intensive cooling system with a pre leveller, a hot plate leveller, a shearing line and a cold leveller complete the mechanical equipment supply. Siemens are also supplying the engineering for all the remaining roller tables, cooling beds, transfers and basic engineering for the required utilities.

In addition to the mechanical equipment, Siemens is supplying all the electrical equipment and the automation system, including the sensors. The roll stand is driven by two cylindrical rotor synchronous motors using Sinamics SM 150 DC link converters with a rated output of 28 MVA. The automation system includes the basic automation, the technological control systems and the process automation as well as the HMI system and a higher level production planning and control system of level 3. This solution supports all production methods for modern steel grades such as Plan View Control, thermo-mechanical and nested multiple plate rolling, to increase the productivity of the rolling mill.