Chinese company Guangxi Liuzhou Iron & Steel Co, Liuzhou has awarded a contract for the supply of an HPH®-Bell-Type Annealing Plant for the annealing of low-alloy cold rolled steel strip coils to LOI Thermprocess GmbH, a company of Tenova LOI Italimpianti.

The new HPH® plant is to consist of 6 bases, 3 heating hoods and 3 cooling hoods with water spray cooling systems. The plant will be designed for maximum stack weights of 120 t with maximum outside coil diameters of 2050 mm and maximum stack heights of 5400 mm. Steel grades from CQ to DDQ and micro-alloyed steels will be treated.

The new plant is to be equipped with a Siemens S7-300 PLC control system and the advanced ProView® system and the commissioning is scheduled for February 2010.