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The modernization project will upgrade AHMSA s hot strip mill to improve the reliability and performance of the automation system.

Up to 1,200 jobs will be cut at the plants in South Wales, including 600 redundancies as a result of a hot strip mill in Llanwern being mothballed.

Besides the announcement on Teesside yesterday, Corus said it would mothball its hot strip mill at Llanwern in South Wales and restructure its engineering steels businesses, which will affect factories including Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

Business activities: Manufacture and sale of cast rolls for hot strip mills Location: Nantong Economic-Technological Development Area, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China (Approximately 100km upstream from Shanghai on the Yangtze River) Representative: Chairman Hirokazu Tanaka President Kiyoshi Nishigaki Establishment: First half of fiscal 2006 (Commence Shipment First half of fiscal 2008) Capital: RMB 520million (Approximately 7.

Costs in the quarter included maintenance spending in connection with planned outages at the company's hot strip mill and finishing mills, as well as costs incurred during 12 days in December following a BOF ductwork collapse, during which there was minimal production.

The next year, he was called back to work at ISG's Cleveland hot strip mill, the part of the plant where freshly rolled steel is run through a bath of molten coating.

A Midwestern hot strip mill faced just such a challenge when the maintenance team found themselves constantly replacing a small, yet vital component in a large production facility.

The biggest excitement is around the fact that we're able to get rid of the need for the huge capital-intensive slab caster and hot strip mill," says Peter Campbell, director of Technology and Marketing for Castrip LIC.