CMI offers a wide range of advanced technological solutions along with a complete service for the construction of industrial facilities dedicated to the cleaning, degreasing and pickling of strip products, long products such as wire, plates, bars and tubes. It also takes care of recycling on a worldwide basis.
Its objective is to deliver comprehensive solutions based on the individual needs of customers. The products are designed and manufactured to offer maximum value, from the delivery of complete new installations, to productivity and quality improvements to existing lines. CMI ’s chemical processes enable its customers to successfully tackle current environmental challenges, which are focused on reducing emissions and consumption.
CMI supplies a full range of pickling solutions for the effective removal of mill scale and other surface impurities from hot and cold rolled stainless steel, carbon steel or silicon steel and from non-ferrous metal strip such as aluminium, brass, etc.:
- Push Pull Pickling Lines
- Semi-Continuous Pickling Lines
- Continuous Pickling Lines
- Stainless Steel Annealing and Pickling Lines
A modular combination of mechanical, chemical and electrolytic processes offers the required design flexibility and ensures excellent cleaning efficiency for the degreasing of all types of metals. CMI’s cleaning concepts provide integrated or stand-alone solutions for the following lines:
- Galvanising Lines
- Coating Lines
- Annealing Lines
- Long Products Processing Lines
- Piece Goods Processing Lines
CMI has successfully developed and improved processes for the regeneration of acids used in the pickling of metals and the leaching process, with acid recovery rates of virtually 100%. The plant layouts are optimised for ease of maintenance and reliable operation, guaranteeing the best return on investment, while considerably reducing the ecological footprint of the plants.
- Fluidised bed pyrohydrolysis for carbon steel including silicon steel applications
- Spray roaster pyrohydrolysis for carbon steel including silicon steel applications
- TOMAREG® for stainless steel applications
- Pyrohydrolysis for other applications than steel
Alongside the local support offered throughout the entire project life cycle, CMI's worldwide team provides further services in terms of chemical processes, such as:
As a technology and service to project provider, this range of products dedicated to chemical processes is completed by other technologies offered CMI, such as:
CMI Chemline’s products and services enable its customers to face the challenges of reducing, or even eliminating, emissions and minimising consumption.
