Nippon Steel's Oita plate mill has placed an order for a Shapeline flatness measurement system with the Japanese trading house Mitsui.

The laser based platform system will measure flatness and shape in Nippon Steel's 5.5 meters wide steel plate shearing line at the Oita plate mill.

The start up of the system is planned for the spring 2012 and will be the first Shapeline system installed at a Japanese mill. It follows the installation of three Shapeline platform systems at Nippon Steel’s Brazilian cooperation Usiminas during the last two years.

Shapeline AB is a Swedish based supplier of laser based systems for flatness measurement within the global steel and metals industry. The company started in 1999 and has today supplied over 60 flatness systems for productivity and quality optimization worldwide.