Acciaierie Valbruna S.p.A.

Production Engineering dept.

STAINLESS STEEL LONG PRODUCTS - PROCESS FLOW CHART
Charge Melting Elaboration Casting Conditioning Billet/Ingot Forging or Hot Rolling Work in progress Heat Straightening Surface Cold Drawing Peeling & Reeling Centerless NDT Testing

yard Blooming Treatments Treatments grinding

Hot rolled coils - Wire rod

Scrap & Continuous CC Billets Hot rolling Coils Muffle Sand blasting Wire rod

Alloys Casting in coils WIP furnaces & pickling testing

Electric Arc Coil to bar Cold drawn

Furnace Cold Drawing bars testing

Charge AOD Conditioning Billets Hot Rolling Hot rolling Continuous Coils

basket (eventual) stock in bars furnace (coils) straighetning

Blooms for rolling mills

Induction LF+VD Ingot Casting Ingot Open die Bars Car Sand blasting Hot rolled
Forged material

Furnece (bottom pour) Stock forging WIP furnaces & Pickling bars testing
Blooms for rolling mills

Blooming Continuous Black bars Peeling Reeling - Peeled bars

Blooms for market

furnace (bars) straightening burnishing testing

Blooms for Radial forge

CICLO DI LEZIONI SULLA

PRODUZIONE DEGLI ACCIAI Electrodes for ESR Remelted ingot

INOSSIDABILI Remelting Remelting Stock

STAINLESS STEELS
LONG PRODUCTS -
Complete process flow VAR Radial forging Not treated Bar to bar Centerless Ground bars
Rotary forged material
chart Remelting material Cold Drawing grinding testing