Chinese Customer Orders Sixth Morgan Mill

Morgan Construction Company has been awarded a contract for a high speed wire rod mill outlet, its sixth mill order from the Zhangjiagang Shajing Steel Company, Ltd,, located in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, People¡¯s Republic of China. Engineering started in July 2006, and manufacturing is underway at Morgan¡¯s facilities in Worcester and in Shanghai, China. The project includes a 2-stand 300 Horizontal/Vertical Pre-Finishing Mill, 2-stand Vee Pre-Finishing Mill, water cooling nozzles, guides, 8-stand Vee No-Twist Mill®, pinch roll and laying head. Morgan is also responsible for the engineering design for all equipment from the exit of the intermediate mill to the exit of the reform station. The rod outlet is scheduled to be commissioned in the second half of 2007. ¡°Zhangjiagang¡¯s continued use of Morgan¡¯s technology and service for each of their six mills is a clear recognition of the superior performance and reliability of a Morgan mill,¡± notes Dave Pariseau, Vice President of Corporate Projects. This single-strand high speed wire rod outlet will allow Zhangjiagang to produce approximately one million tons per year of 8mm to16mm plain rod using a 100 percent rolling rate of 166 tons per hour and a guarantee speed of 105 meters per second.