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Spartan produce

Spartan UK can produce plates with thickness from 8 to 150 mm, max width 2100 mm and max length 22 m. All products are manufactured according the main European and international standards for flatness, surface and ultrasonic test.

Thanks to its wide production mix, Spartan UK plates can be used in the most varied of sectors including: buildings, bridges, yellow goods, industrial machinery, wind turbines, general construction.

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Quality management

We hold accreditations and approvals for the Constructions products regulations and Pressure equipment directive along with UK National Highways sector scheme and approved supplier status for International Yellow goods manufacturers

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Metinvest product range

Spartan is part of the vertically integrated Metinvest Group. This ensures you have access to a wide range of products and timely delivery to most regions worldwide. Feel free to contact us

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The Shard: London's skyscraper

The construction of the skyscraper had to be stopped twice because of strong winds. However, with a skeleton made of high-strength steel from Metinvest, the building is designed to withstand the harshest weather conditions

Production process

The Spartan UK plate mill is a quarto universal reversing mill, with automatic gauge control, capable of producing up to 200,000 tonnes per year. Before the finished steel plate is shipped to the customer, it goes through the following manufacturing process.

Slabs

Quarto plate is rolled from slab. Each individual slab is moved from the port to the plant when it is required to meet a customer’s order. The slab is flame cut on site to the exact dimensions required for the plate to be produced.

Reheating Furnaces

The cut slab is reheated in one of five natural gas fired furnaces. According to slab size one of four batch furnaces, or a high capacity multizone pusher furnace is utilised.

Descaling

Once heated to the required temperature, the slabs are descaled top and bottom, using high pressure water jets to remove scale from the surface, which is a natural by product of the heating process.

Quarto Reversing Rolling Mill

To reduce slabs the thickness and to match the customer’s dimensional requirements, the slabs are rolled through the quarto reversing mill. Accurate thickness tolerances are guaranteed through a sophisticated on line laser gauging machine.

Hot Shear

Head & tails of the plate up to 30mm thick are cut by the hot shear. Thickness is excess of 30mm are cut at a later stage by the on line oxy-acetylene cutter.

Hot Levellers

The plate then passes through the levelling machine while still hot, to ensure the plate meets the flatness standard required.

Cooling Bed

The plates are then held on the cooling bed to cool and are inspected for surface quality and dimensional accuracy.

Cold Levellers

Additional levelling can be undertaken once the plate has cooled using the cold levellers.

Punching & Marking

The plates are punch marked with numbers to give full traceability of the plate. Bar code and grade/dimensions labels are fixed to the plate.

Edge Cutting

Plates from Spartan UK are predominantly supplied with mill edges as rolled. On request the edges can be cut off line by an oxy-acetylene cutter to give a flat edge.

Heat Treatment

Plates up to 8m long can be heat treated using the one of two normalizing batch furnaces. Approved contractors can heat treat plates longer than 8m as well as shot blast and prime plates when required by customers.

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