Danieli Morgårdshammar
Morgårdshammar AB was established. Machine shop and
foundry were built.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first universal stand in the world was developed
at Morgårdshammar by Ernst von Zweigbergk.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s first 4-high continuous hot strip steel mill, which made it possible for width and gauge ratios to be increased from 250:1 to 500:1 up to 1000:1.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s first Continuous Strip Pickle Line.

Danieli Wean United
First full-width commercial Electrolytic Tin Line. By the mid-1960’s, approximately 80% of the world’s tin plate was being produced on 67 wean lines in 16 countries.

Danieli Wean United
The first Hydraulic Roll Force Operated Mills.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of the world’s first roller guide.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The housingless stands, invented by Mr. Erik Norlindhwere introduced to the market.

Danieli Wean United
Development of first Processing Uncoiler to prevent crossbreaks as hot roll material is paid off.

Danieli Centro Maskin
First billet grinder with fixed grinding unit and grinding table.

Danieli Davy Distington
One of the world’s first continuous casting plants for steel pioneered at British Steel, Barrow Works.

Danieli Wean United
Developed flex roll processors for automotive industry to eliminate the effects of age hardening in steel sheets, so that they could be deep drawn.

Danieli Wean United
First commercial-width Wheeling Type Galvanizing Line. In this type of galvanizing, the annealing is done off-line so the full range of tempers were available to end users.

Danieli Fröhling
Multi-roll rolling mill concept for ferrous and non-ferrous metals was developed and patented.

Danieli Wean United
Fine scroll shear to cut sheets for nesting can ends.

Danieli Wean United
Development of Tension Leveling Technology. These leveling systems used small-diameter rolls to create a “plastic hinge” across the width of the strip and bridles, to achieve precisely controlled elongation. The result: flat, stress-equalized strip.

Danieli Wean United
First Horizontal Looper Cars for strip storage in a process line.

Danieli Wean United
First cam-actuated Strip Separators.

Danieli Wean United
First closed-face heads to prevent damage to the inner coil wraps.

Danieli Wean United
First automatic acid-water ratio system.

Danieli Wean United
Minimum spangle coatings.

Danieli Wean United
Development of air and steam knives to replace coating rolls.

Danieli Wean United
Supply of the world’s largest Furnace-type Galvanizing Line, and of the world’s fastest (400 fpm).

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Delivery of the first jumping 3-high stands with equipment for mechanized rolling of diamonds.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first convertible stands were introduced.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s first fully Continuous Aluminium 5-stand Tandem Cold Rolling Mill, incorporating the concept
of hydraulic roll-force cylinders.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first Contiloop mill was delivered. Danieli supplies Germany’s first minimill.

Danieli Davy Distington
The world’s largest caster complex at BSC Shelton Works, UK, using a 2-strand slab caster and three, 3-strand bloom casters. It was the world’s first integrated steelworks to rely entirely on continuous casting.

Danieli Wean United
Beltless Coil Wrappers for heavy gauge pickling product.

Danieli Wean United
First automated guided vehicle for bringing coils from storage to the process line.

Danieli Centro Maskin
DC motor drive for constant peripheral speed of the grinding wheel for special steel qualities

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Introduction of the first generation of P600 stands. Also that year, a 4-high mill for strip rolling with automatic stand-changing equipment was supplied.

Danieli Wean United
F irst Turret Side Trimmer for quick knife change.

Danieli Wean United
Developed the first carousel, consumable anode type, radial zinc-plating line for one-sided plating.

Danieli Centro Maskin
First crack-detection equipment for billets made with DC current and wet powder. First billet conditioning plant with four grinders.

Danieli Wean United
Developed the first high-current jet cleaning cell.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Danieli introduces the first twin-channel system for high-speed discharging of bars onto the cooling bed, a system that currently is operated at 40 mps.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Installation of the first wire rod line provided with high-speed wire rod block and DSC-controlled cooling line for in-line heat treatment of the wire rod.

Danieli Wean United
First movable coating pots in a continuous galvanizing line.

Danieli Davy Distington
An 8-strand bloom caster was installed at BSC Lackenby Works, Teesside, U.K. It is still the largest bloom caster in the world, supplemented in 1973 and 1978 by two large, twin-strand slab casters.

Danieli Wean United
Developed the first swing gate coater for a color coating (paint) line.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Introduction of the ED process for treatment of wire rod in coils in hot water.

Danieli Rotelec
The world’s first industrial use of Electromagnetic Stirring for the daily production on a continuous casting machine: Strand stirrers (S-EMS) on a fourstrand 240x240 mm bloom conticaster in France.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of automatic gap control and adjustment devices. Development of first cut-to-length lines.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The world’s first automatic magnetic stacker for sections.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Double belt grinding machine for surface finishing/grinding of stainless steel plates.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Double-headed grinder for round ingots up to 850 mm dia. Development of a 45-kW grinding machine with electronic/hydraulic power control, POWCO system.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
First delivery of wire rod blocks with ring shafts on oil-film bearings.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first fully automated cold shear with a cutting force of 1000 tons was delivered. Also that year, Morgårdshammar introduced “start-and-stop” flying shears.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of 12-high rolling mills and scrap cutting shears. Application of NC systems to finishing lines.

Danieli Fröhling
T he world’s first slitting line with fully automatic slitting head-changing device.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Introduction of the EDC system for treatment of wire rod in hot water conveyor.

Danieli Rotelec
The world’s first industrial use of Mold Electromagnetic Stirrers (M-EMS) for billets on a four-strand billet/bloom/round conticaster in Germany.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of direct hydraulic adjustment systems for rolling mills and finishing lines.

Danieli Wean United
Supply of the world’s largest, fastest most advanced coating line. The 72” line applies prime and finish coats to both sides simultaneously at strip speeds up to 800 fpm.

Danieli Rotelec
The world’s first double-strand stirrer installation (S1+S2 EMS) on a three-strand 120x120 mm billet conticaster in Spain.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Supply of the chain-track drawing line for capillary copper tubes.

Danieli Rotelec
Development of a new strand stirrer technology for slabs, the so-called In Roll EMS, used as double stage stirring on a slab conticaster in France.

Danieli Fröhling
The world’s first slitting line equipped with vacuum tensioning systems for scratch-free slitting of surface-sensitive materials.

Danieli Centro Met
The world’s largest round bloom conticaster (440-mm dia).

Danieli Wean United
Patenting of a Turbulent Pickling Cell.

Danieli Rotelec
Development of combination Mold plus Final EMS (M+F EMS) for billets and blooms in co-operation with Kobe Steel, Japan: first M+F EMS installation for blooms on a twostrand 300x400 mm conticaster (1981) and for billets on a two-strand 125x125 mm conticaster (1983), both in Japan.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Introduction of the ESS cantilever stands on oil-film bearings and with robotized sandwich (rolling rings and guides) change. Since then, over 900 of these units, used in roughing, intermediate, and finishing mills have been installed worldwide.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
T he first high-speed cooling bed with finishing speed of up to 25 m/s was also installed.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The world’s first Continuous Cutting-to-Length (CCL) system.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first in-line furnace for special steels was introduced for a rolling mill.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of Drum Shears for cut-to-length lines.

Danieli Centro Met
The EBM, the world’s first ultra low-head conticaster (1.3 m mold top height for billet casting).

Danieli Centro Maskin
Fully automatic inspection line with cameras for billets with shot-blast cleaning, ultra sound testing and surface testing including permanent marking of defects.

Danieli Wean United
Development of the first linear motor blank stacker to handle blanks of all geometrical configurations.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of 12-high cold rolling mills with direct hydraulic gap adjustment for rolling speeds of up to 1,200 m/min.

Danieli Centro Met
The world’s largest bloom conticaster (650x650 mm).

Danieli Wean United
The world’s first Fully Hydraulic, Compact Semi-Continuous Six-Stand Hot Strip Mill using a Coilbox.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Computerized hot-slab grinding machine with programmable grinding operation.

Danieli Breda
Development of the internal piercing system technology (on a 38-MN extrusion press).

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The world’s first “Black Box” minimill in Italy. It is a 100% hot-charge, 500,000-tpy production unit for specialty steels for automotive applications.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
First fully continuous mill for superalloys and special steels, provided with in-line treatment capability.

Danieli Rotelec
Development of a new technology for edge heating of the transfer bar on hot strip mills, the so-called C -type inductor with adjustable gap.

Danieli Davy Distington
The world’s widest jumbo caster at British Steel Port Talbot Works.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s largest downcoiler (3.2 m wide, 28.6 mm thick strip)

Danieli Wean United
The H2-High Speed High Quality Long Funnel Mold for Thin Slab Casting

Danieli Centro Maskin
Double-head computer-controlled slab grinding machine with loading/turner and unloading table.

Danieli Breda
Design and construction of the first horizontal press for extrusion of graphite electrodes.

Danieli Wean United
The first Dynamic Soft Reduction system in Thin Slab Casting.

Danieli Wean United
Turboflo Pickling System. Turboflo pickling descales the strip more uniformly than traditional push-pull lines, especially on the edges where the oxide layer is very tight.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Development and supply of third-generation chain-track drawing line for bars, shapes and tubes, operating at speeds up to 200 mpm.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of high-precision CNC edge trimming and slitter heads.

Danieli Breda
The first short-stroke press with movable stem.

Danieli Centro Met
Development of the world’s first saturable reactor for EAF. Further to reduce mechanical and electrodynamic stresses, it also allows an easier process operation control.

Danieli Centro Met
The world’s first DC-EAF with Arc Deviation control system.

Danieli Wean United
The high-pressure low-flow rate Rotating Slab Descaler.

Danieli Fröhling
First slitting line with rotating vacuum tensioning device.

Danieli Centro Met
Development of the in-line Surface Quenching system for conticast blooms.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Introduction of the world’s first high-speed shear for cropping of wire rod at up to 100 mps.

Danieli Rotelec
High-speed casting of conventional slabs: M old Stirrers are installed on the world’s fastest slab caster, in Japan, which casts 220x2,100 mm slabs at casting speed up to 3 mpm.

Danieli Centro Met
The world’s first Liquid Pool Soft Reduction control system.

Danieli Centro Maskin
First CASTTGRIND® plant (8 grinding units) for in-line inspection and grinding of stainless steel hot slabs (900°C) at conticaster outlet.

Danieli Wean United
Stainfree Rinse System.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Development and supply of a chain-track drawing line for brass bars operating at speeds over 305 mpm, a world record in the industry.

Danieli Wean United
The f2CR-Flexible Crown Free Rolling system with Long Shifting, operating during rolling process.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The EWR-Endless Welding Rolling process for welding of billets at the exit side of the reheating furnace. It is an innovative process that enables the creation of an endless rolling at the rolling mill.

Danieli Davy Distington
A two-strand slab caster is commissioned at Posco, Korea. The machine incorporates the hydraulically-actuated Integral Motion (INMO) Mold, specifically developed by Davy Distington.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Development and supply of a chain-track drawing line with 26-tons pulling power, operating at over 150 mpm: the fastest drawing line of this size ever built.

Danieli Centro Met
Danarc Plus EAF process technology for the most competitive liquid steel production in every environment: high-temperature scrap preheating, one-bucket charge, no limitation to metallic raw material.

Danieli Centro Met
The world’s most powerful Twin-Electrode DC EAF for melting cold and hot DRI.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s largest flexible Thin Slab Caster at Nucor, Hertford.

Danieli Wean United
High-speed efficient pickling technology, even with thin gauges.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of the Spooler process for twist-free winding of round bars in compact shape, heavy weight coils.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of endless rolling process by direct rolling of a high-speed cast billet.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of the latest-generation Magneticbearing type Loop Laying Head (for rolling speeds of up to 140 mps) and the replaceable wear inserts system.

Danieli Wean United
Development of a high-speed (400 mpm) Turboflo Pickling systems for Thin Gauge strip.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of a Prefabricated-type Automatic Bar Counting and Bundling Station, for the highest-quality finished products.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Installation of the first LPP plant for producing of very small sections starting from wire rod in coils.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Startup of the world's first ECR® Endless Casting Rolling special steel production plant.

Danieli Centro Maskin
Development and supply of a 140-mpm chain-track drawing line to draw 4-t-coils of up to 60-mm-wide flats into straight bars.

Danieli Centro Met
Bloom casting speed world record: 6.5 mpm for a 160x200 mm bloom section (97 tph per strand).

Danieli Centro Maskin
Development and supply of a 3-pass synchronized breakdown drawing system, to draw large-diameter copper tubes at 280 mpm.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Startup of the world’s first high-speed EWR-Endless Welding Rolling wire rod mill.

Danieli Wean United
The first six-high stand with intermediate-roll crossing for superior strip profile and flatness control capability.

Danieli Rotelec
Development of the Multi-Mode Electromagnetic Stirring; a new mold stirring concept for enhanced slab caster performance and product quality, implemented at Posco (Pohang and Gwangyang works), Korea.

Danieli Wean United
Thin Slab Casting speed world record: 10 mpm.

Danieli Centro Met
The MPMD system which combines radioactive and electromagnetic sensors to accurately monitor and control true steel level and powder thickness, to improve billet surface quality.

Danieli Fröhling
The world’s first Flexible Cold Rolling technology that allows us to vary the roll gap during cold rolling, for producing tailor rolled blanks for the automotive industry.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The first SCC Stand Core Concept super heavy-duty roll stand, the basis for the PSP Profile Sizing Process, a cost-cutting technology for producing medium/heavy sections, rails, and special profiles.

Danieli Breda
First Front-Loading extrusion press, with a total force of 32 MN with a billet diameter of 10”.

Danieli Fröhling
First CNC edge-trimming shear for an aluminum hot rolling mill with strip thickness up to 10 mm and 3,200 mm strip width.

Danieli Centro Maskin
The world first ECT™ - Endless Copper Tube plant.

Danieli Breda
Integrated steel forging plant complete of 35 M press, internal piercing centering device and punching arms.

Danieli Wean United
The world’s first successful Thin Slab Casting and Rolling of API X70 for Arctic applications (the most critical of HSLA steel grades for pipes).

Danieli Morgårdshammar
The world’s first combined application of EWR® and Spooling technologies, enhancing productivity, efficiency, product marketability, and achieving considerable savings in transformation costs.

Danieli Fröhling
Development of the “Super Slitter”, a solution that provides stiffness of about double value compared to previous slitting heads.

Danieli Arex
Passivated DRI with variable C-content to be recovered during EAF melting process.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of the DSC Plus computer model for offline simulations, analysis and optimization of rolling parameters and product quality planning.

Danieli Breda
Stainless steel pipe extrusion plant with 35/10 MN extrusion press.

Danieli Centro Tube
Development and construction of the The FQM® - Fine Quality Mill, that combines the Retained Mandrel Mill process with the 3-roll technology for achieving higher-quality seamless tubes in a wider product range, with higher yield and reduced inventory and transformation costs.

Danieli Wean United
World first Thin Slab Casting of silicon steels, exceeding 3% Si content, at over 4 mpm.

Danieli Wean United
World first Thin Slab Casting plant to overcome the 3.0-Mtpy barrier (3.25 Mtpy with 2 casting strands).

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Development of the oil-film bearing laying head for vibrationfree rolling of wire rod at ultra high-speeds.

Danieli Wean United
Confined Jet Dryer system for stainless steel strip drying at the exit of the cold rolling mill.

Danieli Wean United
World first thin slab casting of 80-mm-thick slab cast at 8 mpm.

Danieli Morgårdshammar
Order for the world first ECR-Endless Casting and Rolling plant for commercial steels.

Danieli Fröhling
First new 6-High Rolling Mill for copper.

Danieli Wean United
Fast, flexible, and stable thin slab casting of extra-low and low-carbon steel grades: 70-mm-thick slab cast at 6.1 mpm.

Danieli Centro Met
Development of a continuous casting plant for round blooms of up to 700 mm in special engineering steels; the largest conticast section worldwide.