Hoa Phat hits 1-million-ton production milestone with Danieli QSP

On February 20, the new Danieli casting and rolling line for high-quality coils passed 1 million tons produced, 8 months after the startup.

The plant at Dung Quat in Vietnam, which is in the advanced commissioning phase, produced 200 kt of HCR in January, which represented 94% of the nominal capacity. According to plan, the line will exceed that rate this month.

It features Danieli Quality Strip Production Technology that includes two vertical-curved thin-slab caster strands, 210-meter tunnel furnace and a six-stand hot-rolling mill, followed by a strip cooling system, downcoiler and coil-handling process areas.

The complete electrical and automation system for all strip process areas, from Level 0 to the large drive system for HSM stands is designed and supplied by Danieli Automation.

The steel coils produced, of LC HSLA and MC HSLA families, with strip widths of 1250 and 1500 mm, serve the needs of privately owned cold rolling mills, as well as domestic steel re-rollers and producers of pipeline products.

The cold test was completed in May 2020 with the production of the first hot-rolled coil, which was followed by the hot-commissioning in June. The results obtained during this period correspond to 90% of nominal capacity.

These figures confirm that Hoa Phat is on track to achieve its production target of 2.7 Mt/y in 2021 and with an upstream meltshop expansion, planned for the end of this year, its full capacity will reach 3.5 Mt/y, setting a global benchmark in casting and rolling technology.