Home Group Products History News Press Contact us News Oct. 2016, Ceremony for celebrating the successful completion of plant expansion Sep. 2016, New Six-high Mill for Profilglass Jun. 2016, Contract awarded to MINO by ACESCO S.A.S for Cold Mill upgrade May 2016, New orders for heat treatment and finishing lines for aluminium alloy strip Jan. 2016, MINO selected for GEMCİLER GÜVEN METAL Cold Roughing Mill Revamping Project Oct. 2015, MINO’s milestone achievement in the field of copper foil rolling Jul. 2015, Contract awarded to MINO by Elval for Cold Mill upgrade Jul. 2015, One more contract for Six-High Mill for Copper Apr. 2015, BREAKING NEWS: Foil Mill contract awarded to MINO by Huafon Nikkei Aluminium Corporation Feb. 2015, MINO-JANUS agreement for North American market Feb. 2015, Final Acceptance of the new Cold Mill at LAMINAZIONE SOTTILE Feb. 2015, Contract awarded to MINO by TEZCAN Galvanizli Yapi Elemanlari for new Six-high Reversing Mill Jan. 2015, YINBANG New Four-High Foil Mill preassembled in MINO Workshop Nov. 2014, MINO Four-high Roughing Mill and Six-high Intermediate/Finishing Mill successfully commissioned Nov. 2014, Contract for the modernisation, upgrade and supply of five production lines for copper alloy strip Jun. 2014, Mino Group: new company's names May 2014, Mino selected for Bridgnorth Aluminium cold mill expansion project Mar. 2014, New Foil Mill contract Jul. 2013, New contract for Hot Rolling Mill Jul. 2013, Series of orders for new Aluminium Rolling Plant Jun. 2013, One more contract for Six-High Mill for Copper May 2013, New Hot Rolling Mill successfully running in Brescia Feb. 2013, New contract for Six-High Mill for Aluminium Jan. 2013, First hot rolled coil at Profilglass! Jan. 2013, A series of Six-High Finishing Mills successfully running in China News Ceremony for celebrating the successful completion of plant expansion On October 18th, in Daegu, South Korea, MINO delegates took part in the ceremony for celebrating the successful completion of the plant expansion undertaken by Choil Aluminium Co., Ltd. The plant expansion includes the installation of new DC casting equipment, new slab scalping machine, new slab heating furnace and a new MINO Hot Rolling Mill. The ceremony was attended by numerous distinguished guests from all over the world, including the main customers of Choil, representatives of the Korean authorities and delegates from Wagstaff and Otto Junker, suppliers of the DC casting equipment and of the slab heating furnace. During the grand ceremony, Mr. Jae Sup Lee and Mr. Young Ho Lee, respectively the Chairman and the President of Choil Aluminium, delivered passionate speeches about Company’s past history and future prospects, handed over Plaques of Appreciation to the suppliers involved in the expansion project and accompanied the guests and delegates in a tour visit of the plant were the new equipment was observed in full operation. During the speech addressed to the guests, Mr. Young Ho Lee, President of Choil, said: “Our new Hot Rolling Mill made by MINO allows us to produce high quality wide products and high strength alloys, which enables to create the new demand and import substituting effect actively in electrical, electronic, and transportation sectors including automotive. With this Mill, we have equipped annual production capacity of 200,000 t and established effective system to meet the customer’s various demands in multiple sectors by operating direct chilled casting line and continuous casting line simultaneously and supplying good quality products with extensive range from general purpose sheets to higher value added products”. Later, while handing over the Plaque of Appreciation to MINO’s delegate Mr. Cesare Pettazzi, Mr. Young Ho Lee declared: “I express our deepest appreciation for your successful support and special cooperation to manufacture and install the Hot Rolling Mill for Choil. Your endeavour and expertise will always be at our heart. I hereby present this Plaque of Appreciation to you as a token of our appreciation for your contribution”. Choil Aluminium Co., Ltd. has been the first aluminium rolling company in South Korea and is today considered one of Korean leading companies in the production of high quality coils & sheets of aluminium and aluminium alloys. Choil’s products cover foil stock, fin stock, condenser cases, electrical wire covers, litho sheets, cosmetic caps, closure sheets, embossed sheets for construction, sheets for household goods. With such a massive expansion project, Choil Aluminium is changing the landscape of the Korean aluminium industry, achieving new heights in terms of quantity and quality of its rolled products. MINO is proud of being associated with Choil’s successful history and continuous development. MINO is not new in Korea’s aluminium field having supplied back in the years 1996 and 1997 one Hot Rolling Mill and two Cold Rolling Mills to the Company Namsun Aluminium, today’s Daeho Aluminium, which are successfully working ever since the time of installation. Mr. Cesare Pettazzi, Managing Director of MINO, is presented with a Plaque of Appreciation by Mr. Young Ho Lee, President of Choil Aluminium. People involved in Choil’s expansion project Cutting the ribbon at the entrance of the new plant. Visit by the delegates & guests to the MINO Hot Rolling Mill in operation. New Six-high Mill for Profilglass Following two previous Contracts awarded to MINO at the beginning of 2016 for the supply of two strip processing lines, Profilglass has now awarded MINO with a further Contract! The new Contract covers the supply of a state-of-the-art, wide strip, Six-high Cold Rolling Mill having an impressive barrel length of 2500 mm. Through this new investment Profilglass aims to serve the most highly demanding industrial sectors (including the car industry) with top quality aluminium alloy strip of AA1xxx, AA2xxx, AA3xxx, AA4xxx, AA5xxx and AA6xxx, up to the maximum widths today required by such markets. The new Six-high Mill for Profilglass will be capable of rolling aluminium alloy strip having a maximum width of 2350 mm, down to a minimum gauge of 0.2 mm, and will be one of the biggest cold rolling mills for aluminium in Europe. The new Six-high Mill is of state-of-the-art design and includes entry side trimmer & scrap chopper, EDT pass capabilities, off-line entry coil preparation system, off-line exit coil inspection system, automatic spool transfer device, most advanced AGC/AFC controls and powerful medium voltage AC main drives . The Mill stand is equipped with MINO’s long stroke shifting system for the intermediate rolls, allowing a huge range of different products to be rolled successfully, coping with a big variation in product strip width and diverse mechanical characteristics of the different alloys being rolled. MINO has addressed the problem of heat build up in the coils following subsequent rolling passes, by replacing the traditional coil transfer carrousel (floor mounted, pallet type) with a “High Bay” automatic coil storage system, fully integrated with the Mill, having a capacity of 200 coils. An innovative characteristic of MINO’s High Bay System is that the automatic tracking of the coil and its transfer through the cold rolling process is fully integrated with the Mill’s level 2 automation, where the “recipes” for each product are fulfilled not only in terms of the rolling mill set-up, but also in terms of coil handling and cooling time between passes. The scheme is being developed by MINO Automation in cooperation with its US partner company Janus Automation, experts in coil handling and logistics management. Until today, MINO can boast of having installed, or being in the process of supplying, the following impressive list of equipment for Profilglass: - a Hot Rolling Mill; - four Cold Mills (!); - a Continuous Annealing & Heat Treatment Line, where the floating furnace and quenching section are of Otto Junker’s supply; - a complete Continuous Tension Levelling, Cleaning & Passivation Line. MINO is particularly proud of the consolidated and long-lasting partnership established with this Customer back in 2001 (when Profilglass awarded to MINO the first Contract for the supply of a Cold Mill) and which has continued uninterrupted through the years, following the spectacular growth of Profilglass in the aluminium strip sector. Key data of the new Six-high Mill: Type of alloys: AA1XXX, AA2XXX, AA3XXX, AA4XXX, AA5XXX and AA6XXX series alloys Max. strip width: 2350 mm Max. entry strip thickness: 10.0 mm Min. exit strip thickness: 0.2 mm Max. coil weight: 23 t Max. coil outer diameter: 2200 mm Pictures showing a typical MINO Six-high Mill for wide aluminium strip commissioned in China in 2015 Contract awarded to MINO by ACESCO S.A.S for Cold Mill upgrade Acerías de Colombia - ACESCO S.A.S has awarded MINO the contract to upgrade and modernize its cold rolling mill. The first phase of the project has been awarded to upgrade the electrical and automation system which will improve energy efficiency and reliability with the new maintenance-free AC motor. The drive cabinets shall be equipped with active front-end rectifiers and DC-bus drives to control the new motor, the redundant dynamic braking system will be composed of a DC-bus braking chopper and a double-caliper pneumatic mechanical disk brake designed by MINO. The whole revamping concept is a stepwise upgrade of the cold rolling mill for which MINO will provide the state-of-the-art solutions based on its experience in flat products rolling. New orders for heat treatment and finishing lines for aluminium alloy strip Located in Fano, Marche region, Italy, Profilglass is the fastest growing Italian Company in the Aluminium strip production sector and one of MINO’s best Customers. The association between Profilglass and MINO dates back to 2001 when Profilglass awarded to MINO the first job for the supply of a Cold Reversing Mill. After that first job, MINO was awarded the contracts for the supply of two more Cold Rolling Mills and a state-of-the-art Hot Rolling Line that was successfully commissioned in 2013. During the first months of 2016, MINO has been awarded two contracts for the supply of the following equipment: the mechanical and electrical equipment for a Continuous Annealing & Heat Treatment Line, where the floating furnace and quenching section are supplied by Otto Junker Gmbh; a complete Continuous Tension Levelling, Cleaning & Passivation Line. These two Lines will allow fully continuous operation and will be erected face-to-face in a new bay of the Profilglass plant located in Bellocchi di Fano. The two Lines will be connected by a coil transfer system and will allow the coils previously rolled in MINO’s Hot & Cold Rolling Mills to undergo a complete heat treatment, tension levelling, pickling and passivation. This new investment by Profilglass is aimed at serving the most highly demanding industrial sectors with top quality aluminium alloy strip of AA2xxx, AA5xxx, AA6xxx and AA7xxx series, including the car industry that requires increasing quantities of aluminium automotive sheet as a lighter weight replacement of steel, both for inner structural parts and for outer panels. More in detail, the Annealing & Heat Treatment Line has been developed in cooperation with Otto Junker Gmbh of Simmerath, Germany, specialist supplier of thermal equipment, to satisfy today’s most demanding industry applications, such as exposed automotive sheet. The Annealing & Heat Treatment Line is complete with strip joiner and strip horizontal entry/exit accumulators allowing for fully continuous operation, pre-cleaning & drying section, effective systems to feed the furnace with the strip perfectly centered and having a precisely controlled minimum tension. The latter is achieved with a combination of large diameter bridle rolls, strip centering units properly located along the Line and an advanced automation system which benefits from the huge experience gained by MINO Automation in controlling minimum tension in the most demanding applications, such as the foil rolling. The Tension Levelling, Cleaning & Passivation Line is complete with strip joiner, side notcher, entry side trimmer & scrap chopper, strip horizontal accumulator, tension leveller including four levelling cassettes and one anti cross-bow cassette (all of six-high design), alkaline cleaning section, acid etching section, spray-type passivation section, drying section. When the two Lines will be in operation, MINO will be one of the few equipment suppliers in the world that can boast of being capable, using exclusively its mills & lines, to take a pre-heated slab of aluminium alloy and transform it into a rolled, heat treated & finished strip, covering all automotive aluminium sheet applications, from inner structure to outer panels! MINO is particularly proud of the consolidated and long-lasting partnership established with this Customer back in 2001 and which has continued uninterrupted through the years, following the spectacular growth of Profilglass in the aluminium strip sector. Key data of the Lines: Type of alloys: AA2XXX, AA5XXX, AA6XXX, AA7XXX, series alloys Max. entry strip width: 2150 mm Max. entry strip thickness: 5.0 mm Min. exit strip thickness: 0.6 mm Max. coil weight: 22 t Max. coil outer diameter: 2200 mm MINO selected for GEMCİLER GÜVEN METAL Cold Roughing Mill Revamping Project GEMCİLER GÜVEN METAL SAN. TİC A.Ş, a well known producer of copper and copper alloys strip in Turkey, have selected MINO SpA of Italy to modernise their existing Four High Cold Rolling Roughing Mill, installed in their Kahramanmaraş plant. This award involves the extensive revamping of a used cold rolling mill, originally designed for large steel strips, purchased from Germany and installed in GEMCILER facilities some years ago. This Mill is now subject of a major upgrade of the entry and exit configuration, along with the modernisation of the rolling stand. The revamping work by MINO includes extensive mechanical and hydraulic modifications, new electrics and state-of-the-art automation systems, aimed at making the production line suitable to roll high quality copper alloy products, up to an outstanding strip width of 1300 mm, down to a minimum gauge of 0,5 mm. The production rolled on this mill will be able to satisfy the most stringent quality parameters required by today’s market and to feed with top-quality coils the downstream rolling mills for the finishing passes. Installation and on site start-up supervision will also be part of the MINO’s scope of work. For this purpose, MINO has provided a multi disciplined team that has been chosen to work closely with the GEMCILER project management, from project conception to final acceptance. MINO is proud of having being selected by GEMCILER as partner for such valuable project and is confident that this is the first step of a long lasting co-operation between the two Companies MINO’s milestone achievement in the field of copper foil rolling On October 19th 2015, after an extensive and thorough period of performances tests and trial production, the Final Acceptance Certificate of the MINO Copper Foil Mill installed in Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd has been signed. Final Acceptance handshaking between Mr. Feng Tianjie, Chairman of Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd., and Mr. Cesare Pettazzi, Managing Director of MINO The MINO Foil Mill is capable of rolling the thinnest strip gauges that are today requested by the copper market, which range typically from 34 down to 6 microns. During the tuning & testing period, the machine has been focused on the production of the thinnest gauges on wide strip (650 mm), at maximum rolling speed in order to achieve not only excellent flatness and thickness tolerances, but also the best strip surface quality. MINO Multiroll Mill during operation at Shandong Tianhe’s plant Such remarkable result has been achieved by combining the state of the art mechanical design of MINO Multiroll Mill together with the advanced MINO Technological Control System. The MINO’s signature and unique “Multiroll” design, is an extreme development of the traditional MINO Six-high design where the mechanical and hydraulic configuration has been fitted to the rolling of ultra thin gauge strip, incorporating several bespoke features to ensure mill’s thermal balance, full flatness control, high surface quality and stable coiling. The mill is equipped with Automatic Flatness Control and Automatic Gauge Control specifically developed for the copper foil production including, for instance, an effective thickness control mode by tension & speed. With MINO Copper Foil Mill, Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd can today compete with the highest quality copper foil producers in China and outside China. The foil produced by MINO Foil Mill is then further processed in Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd. factory to become final product as Blackened Foil, Reddened Foil, Plain Foil or Soft Plain Foil. Flexible printed circuits, shielding material, flexible connectors and lithium ion batteries are currently the typical applications of such high quality copper foil. Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd has developped the standards of rolled copper foil for flexible printed circuits which are applied thoroughly all over China, thus becoming a leading company in the highly demanding field of high precision electronic rolled copper foil. Final products 6 microns copper strip At the Final Acceptance Certificate signing ceremony, Mr. Feng Tianjie, the Chairman of Shandong Tianhe Rolled Copper Foil Co. Ltd., has declared: “The excellent results of this project is due not only to the high technical and quality level of the equipment that we have imported from Italy, but also to the spirit of cooperation and mutual support established between MINO and Tianhe teams that has characterized any phase of this project. Together with MINO we have set up a foil production process that allows us to roll the most extreme sizes of today’s copper strip sector and we can now supply to our customers those products that very few top level companies in the world are able to provide. ” Contract awarded to MINO by Elval for Cold Mill upgrade Elval (Hellenic Aluminium Industry S.A.) of Greece has awarded MINO the contract to upgrade and modernise one of its cold rolling mills. The mill, which rolls cold rolled aluminium strip for various industrial applications including can-stock, required modernising to improve reliability and productivity. The first phase of the project has been awarded to replace the existing process control system and make improvements to the exit side of the rolling mill. One key aspect of this is strip surface dryness on the rolled sheet. As part of the scope of supply, MINO will design and install its unique air wipe system to remove rolling oil from the sheet surface, this equipment will be designed and built in MINO' s own workshop based in Alessandria. Other improvements to the rolling mill will include the installation of a new shapemeter roll, thickness gauges and laser speed measurement devices and roll coolant spray bars. A notable feature of the roll coolant spray bar system will be installation of 'hot edge' (H.E.S) spray control for improved strip edge thermal control during high speed rolling. The H.E.S includes the MINO hot coolant delivery system for the 'hot' rolling oil to dedicated spray nozzles. The renowned 'Avanti' process control system also designed and built by MINO will replace the existing control system. The new 'Avanti' system will include the latest control applications for Mass Flow and Feed Forward thickness control. This will be complimented by advanced 'Avanti' flatness control. This project is part of a strategic investment for Elval in its program to improve one of its key rolling mill assets which rolls a number of high added value products. The key data of the Cold Mill undergoing the upgrade are the following: Type of alloys: AA1XXX, AA3XXX, AA5XXX, AA8XXX series alloys Max. entry strip width 1850 mm Max. entry strip thickness 2.0 mm Min. exit strip thickness 0.065 mm Max. coil weight 14 t Max. rolling force 800 t Max. rolling speed 1155 m/min. This award to MINO follows on from the project under construction at Elval's subsidiary plant in Bridgnorth, England where MINO are contracted to make a total rebuild of a cold rolling mill for the Bridgnorth plant. Cold rolling mill for the Elval’s plant in Bridgnorth UK, being rebuilt in MINO’s workshop One more contract for Six-High Mill for Copper MINO has been awarded by Ningbo Jintian Copper (Group) Co.,Ltd. one contract for a new Six High Finishing Cold Rolling Mill for Copper and Copper Alloys. Ningbo Jintian Copper (Group) Co.,Ltd. was established in 1986 and is today listed among the biggest Chinese players in the field of copper and copper alloy products, including strips, plates, bars, wires and tubes. The new mill shall be installed in Ningbo plant and will be part of the Company’s investment programme aimed at improving the quantity and the quality of their production of high precision copper strip. The mill shall produce copper strips down to a minimum thickness of 35 microns, on maximum width of 450 mm, meeting the highest standards of thickness tolerance and flatness, required nowadays in the high-tech applications for copper strips. The new mill will be equipped with state-of-the-art automation system (including Automatic Gauge Control and Automatic Flatness Control) and with the advanced valve pulsing technology, for achieving maximum effectiveness in controlling the thermal crown of the rolls. Following MINO’ s established and successful practice for such type of high precision equipment, the Mill will be manufactured and pre-assembled in MINO’s Alessandria (Italy) workshop. Main data of the mill: Type of Mill: Six-High Reversing Finishing Mill Rolled material: Copper and Copper Alloys Max. entry strip width: 450 mm Max. entry strip thickness: 2.0 mm Min. exit design strip thickness: 0.035 mm Max. coil weight: 6 t Max. rolling speed: 600 m/min. With this latest Contract, the number of MINO cold mills for copper sold to China alone since 2004 achieves the outstanding figure of 20, making MINO the most successful foreign supplier of copper mills in China! Contract hand shaking between Mr. Yang Jianjun, Vice Managing Director of Jintian Group, and Mr. Cesare Pettazzi, Managing Director of MINO Example of MINO Six-high Mill object of the Contract signed with Jintian Copper More Articles... 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