STEEL
Integrated steel plants run hot, dirty, and around the clock. We engineer hydraulic systems that survive the duty cycle, the contamination, and the consequences of unplanned shutdown.
FORTY YEARS INSIDE STEEL PLANTS
From the first SAIL Rourkela contract in the late 1980s to the engineered HPUs running at Tata Steel Kalinganagar today, the steel sector has been our largest installed base. We know what a 24/7 duty cycle does to seals, what airborne mill scale does to a return-line filter, and what an unscheduled stop costs per hour.
Our applications team designs to the duty — not to the catalogue. Every steel plant HPU we ship has been sized against actual cycle data, peak power demand, ambient temperature and contamination risk. The result is a system that runs the planned interval, not one that needs nursing.
STEEL PLANT DESIGN STANDARDS
- ISO 4406 cleanliness Class 17/15/12 or better, maintained continuously
- Cycle duty > 100,000 cycles per annum, designed-in
- Ambient operating range −5°C to +50°C with full power
- Redundant pumping on critical drives, hot-swappable filtration
- Condition monitoring instrumentation as standard, not optional
- Full SKF bearing alignment and lubrication on rotating equipment
APPLICATIONS WE COVER
BLAST FURNACE AUXILIARIES
Tap-hole drilling and mud-gun hydraulics, slag granulation systems, charging equipment, gas cleaning plant. High-temperature, high-pressure, low-tolerance applications.
STEEL MELTING SHOP
EAF tilting, ladle furnace lifting, slag-door manipulator hydraulics, ladle turret drives. Cyclic high-load duty in extreme thermal environment.
CONTINUOUS CASTING
Mould oscillation hydraulics, segment clamping, withdrawal drives, ladle turret rotation. Precision systems where downtime cascades through the whole melt shop.
HOT & COLD ROLLING MILLS
Mill stand hydraulics, AGC (automatic gauge control) servo systems, work-roll bending, coilers, side-trimmers, levellers. Servo-grade cleanliness and response.
MATERIAL HANDLING
Slab and bloom transfer, scarfing units, billet pushers, hot-charge transfer cars, cooling bed hydraulics. Heavy-duty, high-cycle, abrasive environment.
FINISHING & FORMING
Pickling lines, coating plants, pipe and tube mills, forging presses, hydraulic shears. Engineered hydraulic groups built to plant specification.
DOCUMENTED STEEL PROJECTS
A representative selection from our installed base across the integrated steel sector.
TATA STEEL — KALINGANAGAR
Engineered hydraulic power unit for cold rolling mill auxiliary services. 132 kW installation, ISO 4406 17/15/12, dual-pump redundancy with hot-swap filtration.
SAIL — ROURKELA STEEL PLANT
Long-running supply and service relationship across blast furnace, SMS and rolling mill divisions. Multiple HPU retrofits, AMC contracts, condition monitoring deployments.
JINDAL STEEL & POWER — ANGUL
Hydraulic system supply and field engineering support for plate mill and SMS operations. Parker components, in-house manifolds, full traceability.
JINDAL STAINLESS — JAJPUR
Cylinder manufacturing, valve supply and on-site service support across the stainless steel value chain. Local response, OEM-traceable parts.