Overview
Heavy Gauge Decoiling – Llanwern is focused on supplying hot-rolled sheet for a wide variety of market applications. Located at Llanwern, South Wales, it employs two decoilers to process the full range of Tata Steel hot-rolled coil. It is a new processing hub, set up following many years of successful heavy gauge decoiling at sites in Dudley, Wombourne and Llanwern
Customer benefits
Heavy Gauge Decoiling – Llanwern operates with high levels of automation. Key line parameters in areas such as the levellers and stacker are controlled on a coil-by-coil basis. This ensures a consistently superior product with respect to flatness and sheet presentation.
The decoiling hub offers our customers a wide range of benefits:
- Reduced lead-times. The hub is located adjacent to Tata Steel’s Llanwern hot strip mill, with direct rail links to the nearby Port Talbot hot strip mill. This means it is ideally placed to benefit from increased stock visibility and reduced lead-times - providing customers with a more responsive service.
- Superior sheet flatness. A £11m investment in Europe’s most powerful strip decoiler delivers superior flatness across the widest possible range of dimensions and grades.
Sheets up to 25mm in thickness and grades up to 1600N/mm2 tensile strength can be readily decoiled. - Ease of fabrication. In-line brushing of the surface during the levelling process, combined with indoor storage of coils after rolling on the nearby hot strip mills, provides a consistent and clean surface finish. This makes it ideal for fabrication without intermediate surface treatment.
- Reduced processing time. We are able to side-trim during the decoiling process - offering tighter dimensional tolerances than a mill-edge sheet. This means there is no need for additional processing time associated with a sheared product.
- Security of supply. We offer a unique combination of two decoilers located adjacent to our hot strip mill. It means we can provide customers with a secure supply and sufficient capacity to support your growth plans - without compromising service.