Roofings Rolling Mills, Uganda’s largest steel company, has signed a contract with Danieli Group, an Italian supplier of equipment and physical plants to the metal industry to supply a new cold-rolling mill, hot-dip galvanising, colour-coating and side-trimming line.
The new lines will be installed at the Kampala Industrial Business Park, Namanve site and will be ready by mid-2024, according to a media advisory by the Danieli Group.
The advisory didn’t say how much the deal was worth.
The contract was signed by Sikander Lalani, the Roofings Group Chairman and Founder and Giacomo Mareschi, the Danieli Group Chief Executive Officer.
The investment will allow Roofings to produce an additional 100,000 tonnes per year of galvanized coils and 50,000 tonnes per year of painted coils, “efficiently and ecologically”, the Danieli Group said.
Danieli will supply the complete mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and automation equipment.
“The single-stand cold-reversing mill will be equipped with heavy-duty positive/negative bending and ultrafast HAGC control to obtain impressive thickness tolerances.
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Advanced automation will allow superior performances in terms of product quality and productivity, consistently. The hot-dip galvanising line will feature Danieli Kohler X-jet gas wiping system ensuring coating with excellent uniformity at 160 m/min,” the Danieli Group press release said.
“The high-production, colour-coating line will feature Danieli Fata Hunter chemical and paint coaters and catenary-type prime and finish ovens, which will deliver the requested high-quality coating and visual results. Danieli Automation will provide full electric and automation systems including Level 1, making use of the powerful IPC-based HiPAC platform, and Level 2 to handle plant process setup and reporting functionalities.
The same modular automation architecture applied to the new mill and lines will ease the management by maintenance engineers and plant operators for production and maintenance,” added Danieli.
The facility, Danieli said, would make Roofings the largest and most modern cold-strip complex operating in East and Central Africa.
Founded in 1994, Roofings Group is Uganda’s largest iron and steel empire. Roofings Rolling Mills Limited, the single largest player, together with Roofings Limited, its sister company, turned over a combined UGX1.2 trillion in sales in 2021.
