Company Profile

Remi Metals Gujarat Limited (RMGL) is an Electric Arc Furnace based integrated steel and seamless pipe plant. RMGL has both Ingot (minimum weight 3T) as well as CC Bloom ( maximum bloom size 300 mm sq.) casting routes of steel making.

Capacities
RMGL has a Seamless Pipe / Tubes plant to maufacture 50,000 TPA of Carbon Alloy Steel Seamless Pipes / Tubesin hte size range of 1'' to 6 5/8'' in technical collaboration with M/s Intertech GmbH International Technical Assistance, (INTERTECH), Germany. The Company has also in-house Steel manufacturing and rolling capacity of 1,40,000 TPA.

Land and Location
RMGL is located in Gujarat on a 150 acres (60 hectares) plot near villageFulwadi, Taluka Jhagadia, District Bharuch which is 23 kms from Ankleshwar, 85 kms from Dahej where a full fledged all weather port is being developed and 85 kms from Essar's Sponge Iron Plant and Hazira.

Power supply is from Jhagadia sub-station by aying a separate Industrial feeder. The project is ideally located as regards proximity to the source of raw materials, water, power, ptransport arrangements and other amenities. Also a gas line is passing just near the project site, from which gas connection wcould be obtained in future, subject to availability of gas.

Manufacturing Facilities
Mannesman Demag Huttentechnik, Germany and their Indian counterparts Indomag Steel Technology, world leaders in steel making and seamless pipe technology have designed the key process equipments. Advance steel making technology through 35 MT, Ultra High Power Eccentric Bottom Tapping Arc Furnace, Refining in LRF (Landle Refining Furnace) and Degassing in VD/VOD has been inducted from MDH.

The Rolling Mill also designed and manufactured by Mannesmann Demag can provide high reduction ratios in single heating.

RMGL Steel Plant is equipped with ultra high power furnace with eccentric bottom tapping for slag free liquid steel with secondary refining in ladle furnace (LF) vacuum degassing (VD), which is then cast in Bottom poured, wide end up ingot moulds or a continuous (CC) bloom caster with Electro Magnetic Stirrer (EMS) and Automatic Mould Level Controller (AMLC). This results in compact, clean defect free steel. The Cast steel is then hot rolled giving high reduction ratio to form steel of high quality suitable for critical applications.

The highlights of our steel mill are as follows:

  • Uphill bottom pouring in wide end up Ingot Moulds with liquid stream shrouding (without steel coming in contact wiht air) to ensure minimum gas levels, maximum cleanliness and high reduction ratios.
  • Electro Magnetic Stirrer in bloom caster generates a whirlpool motion of liquid metal during solidification in copper mould. After chill zone, formation of columnar Zone is avoided and equiaxed grain formation takes place. This minimizes dendritic structure which is the bane of any Steel intended for forging.
  • Autmatic Mould Level Controller has been provided to keep constant head and constant speed of casting, working in tandem, this gives a Central shrinkage free casting.
  • Secondary cooling apron has been provided with air-water cloud spray, which results into automization of water particles. The heat removal from the cast bloom is accelerated and cast blooms produced are free from banded structure.
  • LRF has been provided for maintaining narrow tollerance of Carbon, Manganese and other alloying elements. Argon purging done in LRF eliminates macro inclusions. Close Stream casting is done (without steel coming in contact with air) to have steel wiht minimum gas levels.
  • For special grades of steel, pit cooling arrangement and annealing furnace has also been provided.

The above facilities and processes assure the following advantages:

  • Improved productivity and yield
  • Flexibility in production batches
  • Imroved metallurgical properties

We undertake to develop and produce more Alloy Steels and Micro Alloy Steels alongwith Carbon Steels to cater to steel requirements for critical components like Front Axle Beams, Bearings, Steering Gearsm Crank Shafts, Gears, Tools, Dies, Rolls, etc. for Automobiles, Engineering industries, Tools and die manufacturing, Defence applications etc.

Grades of Steels conforming to SAE/BS/IS/DIN/JIS and other international standards in the form of Ingots, Cast Blooms, Rolled Rounds, RCS and Squares can be supplied.

RMGL is equipped with modern testing facilities employed right from steel making stage and inspection facilities like Magnetic Particle Inspection, Eddy Current Testing, Ultrasonic Testing, etc.

We are also employing the latest technology for making seamless pipes/tubes on vertical extrusion press of 2500 Ton capacity and 18 stand SRM. The hot finished pipes so manufactured are then finished and dispatched or can further be taken for cold pilgering of for various types of heat treatments.

The advantages for seamless pipe making in addition to the advantages mentioned for steel making are:

  • Achieving high diameter/thickness (D/T) ratio
  • Improved metallurgical properties as regards uniform logitudinal and transverse strengths

Further, in-house heat-treatment facilites like furnaces with thermostat controls, which enable tubes to be suitable heat treated to meet customers requirements of stress relieving, tempering, normalizing and annealing (spheroidize annealing).