This new installation will make Topy Industries the first Japanese steelmaker to operate spooler technology.
The line, to be installed at Toyohashi Rolling Mill, Aichi Prefecture, will produce 240,000 tpy of spooled bars coils weighing from 1 to 3.5 tons at a max. coiling speed of 35 m/s.
Perfectly shaped, no-twist spooled bars will be wound into compact coils by two K-Spool stations independently served by separate lifting forks, by means of two Danieli horizontal spooler stations.
Danieli Automation will provide automation and control systems, while strapping and labelling equipment will be manufactured by Swedish Sund Birsta (Danieli Group).
Additionally, a two-pass fast finishing block supplied along with a Hi-Profile measuring system and a Danieli QTS-quenching and tempering system will upgrade the existing finishing mill.
The project will be coordinated by Danieli Engineering Japan in Yokohama.
The line is planned to start production with D10, D13 and D16 bar products in Summer 2018.