A ground-breaking new high-speed cold mill, only the fourth of its kind in China, has successfully trialled its production of aluminium strip.

The SFRE-manufactured 2,800mm CVC cold tandem mill at Mingtai Aluminium Industry Co is running stably and producing well-shaped aluminium coils of a uniform thickness, flatness and surface quality. Mass production is due to start soon.

Mingtai Aluminium is a private listed company in China’s Henan province. Its main specialisms are aluminium deep processing and rolling of aluminium plates, strips and foils.

Renowned for its innovation and drive, the enterprise supplies qualified products to clients in the USA, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

SFRE has made significant manufacturing breakthroughs with this innovative mill.

It can operate at a rolling speed of 1,200 metres a minute, three times the speed of a regular mill, and can produce products of a far greater width - up to 2,650mm.

And it can comfortably produce wide curtain wall boards, aluminium busbars, ultra-wide shipbuilding boards, tank car sheets, bins, skin sheets for new-energy buses, satellite antenna pot strips. None of these products can be produced by regular mills.

Performance indicators are surpassing China’s national standards; product profiles are improved, the process is cleaner to run and more stable and a finer surface is being achieved on aluminium strips, sheets and plates, with a smaller allowance of product thickness.

This mill is a great contributor to the client’s product development and market share. When mass production begins, its potential capacity will enable SFRE to dominate China’s high-end wide aluminium processing sector.

MCC-SFRE Heavy Industry Equipment completed the manufacture and supply to demanding quality, schedule and supervision service specifications.

Trial production in progress at the SFRE-manufactured mill at Mingtai Aluminium Industry