Our contribution to the history
of metal industry
1914 › 1960
The Danieli
Technological Milestones
and World Records
Technological Milestones
and World Records
1914
The first electric arc furnace in Italy. The story begins.
1926
Danieli Wean United
The world's first 4-high Continuous Hot Strip Steel Rolling Mill, which made it possible for width and gauge ratios to be increased from 250:1 to 500:1 up to 1000:1
1960 › 1970
1964
First application of minimill concept in Germany
1968
Danieli Wean United
Widest (+5,500 mm) plate mill at Alcoa Devenport (USA), for aerospace products
1970 › 1980
1974
First Danieli direct reduction plant (80,000 tpy)
1980 › 2000
1990
Danieli Wean United
The world’s largest downcoiler (3.2 m wide, 28.6 mm thick strip), in IPSCO Mobile USA
2000 › 2015
2004
Danieli Wean United
The world’s first successful Thin Slab Casting and Rolling of API X65 and X70 for Arctic applications (the most critical of HSLA steel grades for pipes), in OMK Vyska, Russia
2005
Danieli Davy Distington
World first Thin Slab Casting plant to overcome the 3.0-Mtpy barrier (3.25 Mtpy with 2 casting strands), Tangshan Iron & Steel, P.R. China
2006
Danieli Morgårdshammar
The Rail mill supplied to world leader voestalpine Schienen becomes the new benchmark plant
2008
Danieli Centro Met
World largest conticaster for 750 mm round bloom producing 60 tph per strand
2011
Danieli Wean United
API X70-80 Pipeline Steel production in Khouzestan Oxin Steel (Iran) and Jiangyin Xingcheng (PR China) Danieli Wide Plate Mills
2011
Danieli Plant Engineering
2.0 Mtpy Integrated DRI-Steelmaking-Rolling complex for heavy sections up to 1 m
2011
Danieli Wean United
6-high Tandem Mill coupled with Pickling Line to achieve gauges down to 0.2 mm on 1560 mm coils
2012
Danieli Plant Engineering
1.3 Mtpy “Green Steel” plant for specialty steel blooms for pipes and rail wheels production
2012
Danieli Centro Met
Steelmaking plant for special and stainless steel featuring two-strand vertical jumbo-size bloom caster
2012
Danieli Wean United
4.0-Mtpy benchmark hot strip mill for top-quality coils, at Baosteel Meishan, P.R.China
2013
Danieli Morgårdshammar
1 Mtpy rolling mill for section and rails; in-line heat treated 100-m-long rails for high-speed trains
2013
Danieli Morgårdshammar
1.4 Mtpy the most productive long product rolling mill for deformend bars
2014
Danieli Centro Met
Conticaster for round blooms up to 850 mm; the largest conticast section worldwide
2014
Danieli Wean United
Start-up of the revolutionary super compact “Pocket” Thin plate/Steckel mill
2014
Danieli Fröhling
New speed record in trimming line for aluminium strip 1,813 mpm, at Alcoa Ma’aden, in KSA
2014
Danieli Centro Met
Conticaster for round blooms up to 850 mm; the largest conticast section worldwide
2015
Danieli Morgårdshammar
Rotoforge: Cutting-edge technology combining forging and rolling operations
2015
Danieli Morgårdshammar
Sund Birsta - Electrification process of all the equipment for cold finishing lines for long & flat products
2015
Danieli Wean United
The first Steckel Mill for Titanium, Nickel, Copper-Zr Alloys and Stainless Steel, at Chinalco Shenyang in China
2015
The very first PcTM-13 Premium Coupling Threading Machine
2015
Danieli Wean United
New technological State-of-the-art Color Coating Painting and Printing Line for Lysva Metallurgical plant, Russia
2015
Danieli Morgårdshammar
DEC+DED Danieli eccentricity control and detection for drawn copper tubes
2015 › 2019
2016
Danieli Morgårdshammar
H3 ultra-modern wire rod and bar-in-coil mill for the production of high-quality steel grades
2016
Danieli Wean United
Danieli Universal Endless (DUE®) new concept of Danieli Thin Slab Casting & Rolling
2016
Danieli Olivotto Ferrè
New concept complete multi load hardening and tempering soft and sphero annealing furnace
2016
Danieli Centro Combustion
Turnkey supply including civil works of one of the world’s largest walking beam furnaces for slab reheating: 450 t/h
2017
Danieli Corus Ijmuiden
First DANCU gearbox blast furnace top-charging technology that set new
standards in reliability and availability
standards in reliability and availability
2018
Danieli Automation & Digi&Met
World's first Q-Live application (Digital Twin) for an aluminium cold-rolling mill
2018
Danieli Rotelec
World's first Multi-Mode® EMB-Electro Magnetic Braking; a breakthrough in terms of flow control on thin slab casters
2019
Danieli Breda
First ESED 4.0 - second generation of Energy Saving Electrical Drive system for extrusion presses
2019
Danieli Centro Maskin
First HGS300 Slab Grinder with new HGS300S spindle (oil only lubrication)
2019
Danieli Breda
World's first graphite extrusion press with vacuum on the die, shifting plug and automatic die change
2019
Danieli Centro Met
Digimelter: a combination of power and intelligence for 15,000 heats per year at the lowest OpEx and environmental impact
2020-2025
2020
Startup of the world's first Twin-MIDA ECR plant for the production of 1.6 Mtpy of bars and wirerod at Pinggang, China
2021
Danieli Morgårdshammar
QWR 4.0: designed for “Zero man on the floor” and superior product quality, the world's most technologically-advanced wirerod mill
2022
Danieli Centro Metallics
Implementation of hydrogen solutions in DRI plants and reheating furnaces through HydroMab burners
2023
Danieli Wean United
MultiPlate for HSS plate production featuring in-line quenching and low-temperature rolling
2024
Danieli Davy Distington
Development of DySenCaster for automotive strip produced in endless casting-rolling mode