Tata Steel’s Shotton Works in Deeside, North Wales, announced a new investment of nearly €3,360,000 to upgrade its two Colorcoat paint lines, which will improve quality and reduce paint usage by 650,000 liters each year.
Works manager Bill Duckworth said, “This is one of the largest investments in the site in recent years and underlines our commitment to ever-improving product quality and reducing our impact on the environment by minimizing our use of materials in line with our recent commitment to sustainability.”
For his part, Duckworth added, “Replacing and upgrading our paint coating heads and control systems with the latest technology will also mean they can be integrated with in-line measurement technologies.”
“Coating heads are critical to the Colorcoat production process as they are used to apply paint to the steel strip substrate. Upgrading them will offer greater control of the paint application process by improving the way the paint is transferred to the strip and give us infinite repeatability. The current coating heads rely on manual adjustments to set the paint thickness, while the new heads incorporate servo motor control, which will provide much greater accuracy and safer hands-free operations,” added the project’s lead engineer, Dave Prytherch.
Commissioning of the new finish coating heads on the Colorcoat No.1 line has already been completed, and work on Colorcoat No.2 is expected to be completed in June this year.
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