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Russian aluminum producer UC Rusal has
installed a new rolling mill at its Kandalaksha
aluminum smelting facility in Murmansk.
Part of a $19.8 million cast house
modernization project currently underway
at the plant, the Properzi rolling mill is
expected to produce up to fifty thousand
metric tons of products each year. At
present the plant produces wire in only
9mm diameter, but once in full production
the new mill will produce wire rods ranging
from 9mm to 25mm in diameter.
In addition to new diameters of wire, the
press will allow the plant to produce wires
in different alloys. Rusal believes that the
main consumers of the new wires will be
primarily cable manufacturing plants, both
domestic and overseas.
“The launch of the rolling mill at
Kandalaksha aluminum smelter is another
step within Rusal’s strategy to increase
the output of value added products,”
explained Rusal’s CEO Vladislav Soloviev.
“…The smelter will start operating at full
production capacity in 2017, having
increased the production of the smelter up
to 72.5 thousand tonnes per year.”
A consortium of Siemens and Sumitomo
Electric Industries Ltd has an order from
the Indian transmission operator Power
Grid Corporation of India for an HVDC
transmission system. The 200km long HVDC
connection will be India’s first DC link
featuring voltage-sourced converter (VSC)
technology. VSC offers a stable and flexible
reactive power control, independent
of active power control, and additional
features to support AC systems.
Siemens will supply two converter stations
with two parallel converters, each rated
1,000MW, using its VSC HVDC technology.
Sumitomo Electric will be responsible for the
XLPE HVDC cable system in the DC circuit.
The Pugalur-Trichur ±320kV HVDC system
will connect Pugalur in Tamil Nadu to
Trichur in Kerala state, south-west India. The
Trichur converter station will be connected
via underground XLPE HVDC cable to
a transition station, also being built by
Siemens. Sumitomo Electric will supply a
128km XLPE HVDC cable system comprising
four cables for a route of 32km each.
Russian producer plans
wider range
Cooperation secures
HVDC contract
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