Wide range of materials thanks to state-of-the-art cold rolling technology in Taicang
Decisive advantages for our customers in Asia thanks to customized steel material solutions and short delivery times.
As a fully integrated cold rolling mill, our Taicang site offers customers Waelzholz’s full range of cold rolled strip steel grades – whether easily formable, high-strength, wear-resistant, anisotropic or isotropic, precise, magnetizable, etc. The materials experts on site advise customers from the automotive, industrial, and other sectors on the basis of Waelzholz’s comprehensive expertise to ensure that they receive the perfect solution for their specific requirements.
High-quality steel strip up to a final width of 650 millimeters is produced on site precisely to customer specifications using two 4-high rolling mills. The final thickness, which can range from 0.5 to 10 millimeters, is continuously inspected during the rolling process in a contactless manner via X-rays and isotope beams. Within milliseconds, the rolling process is adjusted on the basis of the measured parameters. The captured data, together with other measured parameters, flow online into the control system, which continuously adjusts the rolling process. Installed in 2020, the rolling stand also features automatic flatness control, which allows Waelzholz New Material to produce steel strip with significantly lower residual stresses for its customers.
Between or after the rolling operations, the cold rolled steel strip is heat-treated in bell annealing furnaces at temperatures of up to 760 °C.
The extensive range of production equipment and the resulting flexibility have a positive effect on the quality of the steel materials. Large orders can be manufactured with the same settings without blocking other orders or having to reconfigure the lines. The redundancy and spatial separation of the lines also helps ensure that the company can always produce and deliver reliably.
The Sendzimir mill operated by the subsidiary Taicang Waelzholz – Kern-Liebers New Material Co., Ltd. also secures capacity for the production of textured cold rolled steel strip.