Indian steel producer Kalika Steel Alloys Pvt Ltd has placed an order with Metals Technologies, a business unit of Siemens Ltd., to supply a rolling mill for reinforcing steels. The mill will be erected in the Jalna plant in the state of Maharashtra and produce about 250,000 metric tonnes of rebar per year from low-carbon steels. Siemens has specifically developed this plant design for small to medium-size production capacities and it allows projects to be implemented comparatively quickly and economically. Commissioning of the rolling mill is scheduled for late 2014.

Kalika Steel is a leading private-sector producer of structural steels. The company produces the billets required as semi-finished material for this purpose from sponge iron in induction furnaces. Kalika Steel aims to expand its production with the new rolling mill in order to serve the growing Indian construction sector.

Siemens will be supplying the complete mechanical and electrical equipment as well as the automation systems for the rebar rolling mill, which will produce reinforcing steels with diameters between eight and 40 millimeters and lengths in the range of nine and 15 meters. The rolling mill consists of 18 Red Ring stands, followed by a 54 metre long cooling bed and machines for bundling the rolled bars. The mill processes billets with a cross-section of 130 x 130 mm and a length of 9 metres. An induction furnace raises the billets to the necessary starting temperature of 950?C. Siemens will also be handling the construction and commissioning of the rolling mill.

Mr Rajesh Nair, Siemens Limited, Corporate Communications. Tel: 022-33265445. Email: nair.rajesh@siemens.com/rainer.schulze@siemens.com