In May 2020, Primetals Technologies received the final acceptance certificates (FAC) for a fully automatic dummy bar top feeding system for the CC3 two-strand continuous caster of Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd. (Baosteel) at Steelworks No. 1 in Shanghai. With the new solution the operator starts the fully automatic insertion of a dummy bar into the mold and the fully automatic takeover from hoist to car each by pushing only one button.

On June 18, 2020, Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. placed an order with SMS group (www.sms-group.com) for the supply of a 4.3-meter heavy-plate mill. The company is located in Taiyuan, capital of the Chinese province of Shanxi.
The heart of the new heavy-plate production plant will be a mill stand group consisting of a four-high rolling mill with attached edger.

Wuhan Iron & Steel, based in Wuhan, China, has granted SMS group the final acceptance after the successful modernization of finishing stands F4 and F7 in their High-Capacity Hot Strip Mill No. 2. The objective of the project was to increase plant availability.

With the successful commissioning of the third copper cold rolling mill at Jintian Ningbo Copper Co., Ltd. in the Chinese province of Jiangsu by SMS group (www.sms-group.com), Jintian Ningbo Copper now has all process stages at disposal that are needed for the production of copper and copper alloy cold strip.

A change of bearing type on the carousel of a casting line, coupled with a small recommended design change, has led to savings of €100,095 per annum at a leading manufacturer of gas turbine blades after it began experiencing bearing failures every six weeks.

Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the 3800mm PM automation systems and services from Minmetals Yingkou Medium Plate Co., Ltd. For the 3800mm PM project Minmetals Yingkou installed a two-stand thick plate mill, which can produce 1.5 million tons per year of steel plates with the thicknesses of 6 to 100 mm and widths between 1,400 mm and 3,600 mm.