North American steel giant commissions steel rolls from Sheffield Forgemasters

Nucor, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, has placed orders for ultra-large steel rolls with Sheffield Forgemasters for its new plate rolling mill.
By Greg Wright
Published 6th Apr 2023, 12:30 BST

Sheffield Forgemasters will deliver three rolls weighing 147 tonnes each to Nucor’s Brandenburg Mill near Louisville, Kentucky, which is one of the world’s most advanced steel plate mills with the ability to produce 1.2 million tons annually.

A spokesman said: “The multi-million dollar order is seen as a valuable win for the UK engineering specialist, which has a long history of supplying large plate-mill rolls to global customers and the rolls will be integral to the Brandenburg Mill’s capabilities.”

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Dan Millington, Technical Sales Manager (Steel Processing) at Sheffield Forgemasters, said: “This is a significant contract for Sheffield Forgemasters and marks the first time that we have manufactured large plate-mill rolls for Nucor.

Nucor, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, has placed orders for ultra-large steel rolls with Sheffield Forgemasters for its brand-new plate rolling mill.Nucor, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, has placed orders for ultra-large steel rolls with Sheffield Forgemasters for its brand-new plate rolling mill.
Nucor, the largest steel producer and recycler in North America, has placed orders for ultra-large steel rolls with Sheffield Forgemasters for its brand-new plate rolling mill.

“We are supplying to Nucor’s newest Plate Mill; Nucor Steel Brandenburg, which will produce more than one million tonnes of steel plate products each year, with extremely high rates of efficiency.

“Manufacturing rolls of this size is a highly technical process, requiring multiple forging operations through our 10,000-tonne press, controlled heat treatment to meet the customer requirement, as well as rough and finish machining. We are the only UK company with the capability to produce rolls of this size.

“Our efforts to secure work in new rolls markets have been successful to date and we expect to announce further rolls contracts in due course.”

Sheffield Forgemasters will first ship the Nucor components to Antwerp in Belgium, from where they will cross the Atlantic to Baltimore before being taken by rail to Kentucky.