Steel Mills
New Hot Skin Pass Mill Starts Up at ArcelorMittal Mexico
Written by Laura Miller
July 12, 2022
ArcelorMittal Mexico has started up a new hot skin pass mill at its new hot rolling mill in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.
The hot skin pass mill has come into operation seven months after the new $1 billion, 2.75-million-short-ton-per-year hot rolling mill produced its first coil.
“We are very happy to reach today an important step in the advancement of our new rolling mill, thanks to the latest generation technologies in terms of flatness control. Our new HSM has a hot skin pass mill that allows us to guarantee our customers full compliance with the elongation tolerances of the sheet, with excellent flatness performance and high surface quality,” commented Jorge Nieto, chief technology officer of ArcelorMittal Mexico.
Company executives previously estimated output on the new hot strip mill to be 1.5 to 1.75 million tons this year with a run rate of 70% expected by year’s end.
The rolling mill is meant to produce high-quality low carbon, ultra low carbon, high strength low alloy, and API grade hot rolled sheet steel with final thicknesses of 1.2 mm to 25.4 mm. Hot skin pass mills improve the mechanical properties, surface textures, and flatness of the rolled steel.
By Laura Miller, Laura@steelmarketupdate.com
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