New coil inspection line with intelligent quality management system
Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the United States, awarded Fives, an industrial engineering group, a contract for a recoiling and inspection line to support automotive applications at the new Nucor steel plant in West Virginia. This contract comes in addition to the two galvanizing lines already won by Fives for this same greenfield facility.
With a total investment of about $2.7 billion, Nucor is building a new steel mill for sheet metal production on the Ohio River which is to start operations in the second half of 2024.
The recoiling and inspection line includes Fives’ state-of-art digital solution EyeronTM, an intelligent quality management system that collects upstream process data, checks consistency with quality rules and automatically assesses product quality grading. EyeronTM will be tracking quality on the vertical galvanizing line and the recoiling & inspection line to ensure the products meet the automotive quality standards.
“We choose Fives to supply an inspection line as an extension of our galvanizing line N1 using their automotive expertise supported with a real-time quality system,” says John Farris, Vice President & General Manager of Nucor Steel West Virginia.
Nucor Corporation is a producer of steel and related products based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. It is the largest steel producer in the United States, as well as the largest "mini-mill" steelmaker, and the biggest recycler of scrap in North America. Nucor operates 23 scrap-based steel production mills. Last year, Nucor shipped 28.2 million tons of steel, steel products and raw materials, and recycled nearly 23 million tons of scrap. Nucor employs 30,000 teammates at 25 U.S. steel mills and more than 300 total facilities throughout North America.
Fives Group is an industrial engineering group with a heritage of over 200 years and headquarters in Paris, France. Fives designs and supplies production lines, machines and process equipment for the world’s largest industrial players in various sectors, such as steel, aerospace and special machining, aluminium, automotive and manufacturing industries, cement, energy, logistics and glass. Fives employs over 8,000 people in about 25 countries.