Italy’s Danieli has provided a tailor-made roughing mill featuring shiftable stands for a Nippon Steel plant in Kamaishi, Japan.

Per a Danieli press release, the new mill can provide twist-free rolling of 130- to 168-mm billets at 130 tph. The installation of the shiftable roughing mill, in a narrow space, increased billet charging flexibility and efficiency. The produced billets will be used to manufacture wire rod at the same facility. It started operations in 1961 and was described as the longest-running wire rod mill currently operating in Japan.

The Kamaishi operation includes a three-strand wire-rod mill that produces special steel wire rod in mild and hard steel wire, low-alloy steel, spring steel, special melt wire, and bearing steel grades. The main equipment supplied includes two mono-groove vertical and horizontal housingless stands.