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News Release from: ThyssenKrupp Steel | Subject: Hot dip coating facility - China
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 May 2002
Foundation stone for hot dip coating
facility laid
In Dalian On May 15 the chief executives of ThyssenKrupp Stahl, Duisburg, Dr Karl-Ulrich K?hler, and ANSC Angang New Steel Co, Anshan, laid the foundation stone for a hot dip coating plant.
in Dalian On May 15 the chief executives of ThyssenKrupp Stahl, Duisburg, Dr Karl-Ulrich Koehler, and ANSC Angang New Steel Co, Anshan, Academician Liu Jie, laid the foundation stone for a hot dip galvanizing line in the Chinese port of Dalian The US$180 million high-tech facility "Tagal", co-owned by the two joint venture partners, is expected to start trial operation in summer 2003
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Five ThyssenKrupp Stahl employees will manage the facility, which will employ approximately 190 Chinese workers.
"Like its twin - hot dip galvanizing line No.
8 in Dortmund which we put into operation last year - Tagal is designed to produce around 400,000 tons per year of hot dip galvanized sheet meeting very high surface requirements", explains ThyssenKrupp Stahl Executive Board Chairman Dr.Karl-Ulrich Koehler.
"The Dalian line will supply hot dip galvanized sheet mainly for the Chinese auto industry.
China is a prospering market; vehicle production there is expected to rise from 1.8 million units per year today to 2.4 million units in the year 2005." The new line will be the first of its kind in northern China.
Key factors in favor of Dalian - a 5.5 million inhabitant seaport situated 450 kilometers north-east of Peking and approximately 300km south of Anshan - were its favorable site conditions, infrastructure and logistics: The approximately 130,000m2 site is ideally located only two kilometers from the container port.
The building complex, with 30,000m2 of floor space and a length of 433m, will also have a striking outward appearance: ThyssenKrupp Stahl commissioned industrial designer Friedrich Ernst von Garnier to design the color scheme for the facility.
"We want to use corporate colors not only to enhance the public's perception of the facility; we also believe that the colors - light green and gray-blue - will directly impact employee motivation and product quality", says Koehler explaining the company's color philosophy.
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