OREANDA-NEWS. September 06, 2011. Wisco has supplied over 300 tons of high grade thin non-oriented silicon steel with width of 1208mm to a famous air conditioner manufacturer in south China area, which created a record of widest silicon sheet and indicated Wisco reached world advanced level in wide silicon sheet production, reported the press-centre of Wisco.   

Before, the widest silicon sheet by Wisco is around 1000mm. Due to its high silicon content and thin finished product, it claims rigorously on hot rolling, cold rolling, pickling and hot treatment resulting in tough producing.

At the beginning of this year, when visiting clients in south China market, Wisco team learnt that a famous air conditioner manufacturer expected to get thin high grade non-oriented silicon steel with wide width from Wisco to improve material utilization. Since the client’s demand is the producing standard, to fulfill this special requirement and produce qualified products in shortest period, Wisco focused to explore internal potential, gave full play to the advantage of silicon plant’s consistent management.

It drew out difficulties in wide silicon steel production during dozens of processes of smelting, hot rolling and silicon steel producing,worked out detailed measures and solved them one by one. With joint efforts from steel making and hot rolling operations, over 20 items of technological challenges such as high silicon content and hard heating were settled, and more than 300 tons of ultra-wide silicon steel was produced in one month, which satisfied customers’ need.

Currently, Wisco has mastered know-how for high-grade non-oriented silicon steel production and is capable of batch production.