Kawasaki Steel's Experiences and Features of Overseas Electrolytic Tinning Lines

摘要

Kawasaki Steel started the operation of its first FTL (electrolytic tinning line) at Chiba Works in 1967. And based on accumulated operation know-how of ETL, engineering division started to supply ETLs to the Southeast Asia countries. The number of ETL which Kawasaki Steel supplied to these countries reached up to 9 lines including those under construction. ETL has a production capacity from 60 000t/y to 150 000t/y. Some of ETLs are designed to be linked with shearing lines. Kawasaki Steel's experiences of ETL constructions and features of the equipment are discussed in this paper.