Bar processing and finishing lines running the length of a Laxcon Steels plant

Manufacturing

Technology

Cutting-Edge Technology Gives Us An Edge

INFRASTRUCTURE

Our Steel Doesn't
Just Meet Expectations,
It Exceeds Them

At Laxcon Steels, you will only find the best in terms of infrastructure. It is one of the most technologically advanced stainless steel manufacturing companies in India. It utilizes a wide range of modern steel manufacturing techniques and accurate melting statistics along with stringent monitoring processes.

The state-of-the-art machinery provides the group with the capacity and flexibility to produce everything from unalloyed constructional steels to the highest alloyed tool steels.

Cutting-edge equipment like Spectrometers, Ultrasonic Testers, Hardness Testers, Wet labs for Chemical Testing, Physical Testing and Radioactivity Testing machines, enable the hawk-eyed professionals to strictly monitor each outcome, and ensure that the products always exceed customer’s expectations.

Molten steel pouring from the ladle in the Laxcon melting shop

FACILITIES

Production
Process

From the very beginning, our approach to steel production has been rooted in a deep commitment to innovation, precision and excellence. Our facilities are not just individual units; they are interconnected components of a finely tuned machine, each contributing to the creation of steel that stands out in the global market.

01

Steel Melting Shop (SMS)

140,000 MT

Annual melting capacity

9/16 m

Twin-strand caster

Ladle pour in the Laxcon Steels melting shop

We produce high quality Stainless Steel, Alloy Steel and Tool Steel, Billets & Blooms in our advanced Steel Melting Shop.

We employ a range of state-of-the-art steel making technologies. Every batch is monitored and recorded by a robust production control system with precise melting data.

  • Vibro feeder for the addition of lime, dolomite & ferro alloys
  • Top Lancing Facility
  • Electric Melting Furnaces
  • 140,000 Metric Ton Capacity per Annum
  • Electro Slag Refining (ESR)
  • Argon Oxygen Decarburization (AOD) Converter with Automatic Gas Mixing Station
  • LRF (Ladle Refining Furnace)
  • VD/VOD (Vacuum Degassing/Vacuum Oxygen Decarburizer)
  • Billet / Bloom / Round Twin-strand Continuous Caster of 9/16 Metre, PLC Operated with Mould Electro Magnetic Stirrer (M-EMS & AMLC)
  • Bottom Poured Ingot Casting
  • Fully Automatic State-of-the-art Billet Grinding Machine
  • Ti, S & CaSi Cored Wire Injection

02

Advanced Hot-Rolling Mills

4

Cross-country mills

21

Rolling stands

20″

Largest mill size

Glowing billet entering a cross-country rolling mill

Our robust rolling lines are a result of our perseverance towards forward integration and this gives us the ability to roll steel.

  • 20″-5 Stand Semi-Automatic Cross-Country Mill
  • 16″-5 Stand Semi-Automatic Cross-Country Mill
  • 14″-5 Stand Semi-Automatic Cross-Country Mill
  • 12″-6 Stand Semi-Automatic Cross-Country Mill
  • Billet Reheating Pusher Type Furnace (Automatic)
  • Online Hot Saw Cutting Facility
  • HMD (Hot Metal Discharge) for monitoring input and output

03

Heat Treatment Facilities

7 m

Bars treated up to

6

PLC controlled furnaces

Heat treated bar bundle leaving the furnace on the cooling bed

In order to accomplish customer specific material, quality and mechanical properties, Laxcon Steels has state-of-the-art heat treatment facilities.

Our PLC controlled heat treatment furnaces give us precise control over temperature, resulting in greater uniformity and excellent mechanical properties.

  • Specially designed heat treatment furnace for bars up to 7 metres
  • Two PLC controlled Electrical Tempering furnaces, 10 MT & 18 MT capacity
  • Gas fired PLC controlled Soft Annealing furnace, 40 MT capacity
  • Three Gas fired PLC controlled Solution Annealing furnaces, 6 MT each
  • Water quenching tank for Solution Annealing, 60 KL capacity
  • Oil quenching tank for Hardening, 50 KL capacity
  • Heat Treatment Graph Facility

04

Cold Finishing Facility

Operator at the control desk of an automatic bar peeling line

We offer a wide tolerance range, sizes and finishing options. We produce Bright Bars and Precision Shaft Bars owing to our versatile automatic bar processing and finishing lines.

  • Automatic Bar Peeling Lines
  • Automatic Bar Polishing Lines
  • Belt Polishing Machines
  • Centreless Grinding Machines
  • Combined Wire Drawing Machines
  • Automatic Draw Benches
  • Bar Straightening Machines
  • Section Straightening Machines
  • Section Polishing Machines
  • Automatic Chamfering Machines
  • Grit Polishing Machines
  • Band Saw Cutting Machines
  • Shot Blasting Line
  • Threaded Bar Rolling
  • Eddy Current Facility

05

Pipes and Tubes Division

Red-hot hollow shell passing through the seamless tube rolling mill

Phase 1 of our Tubes and Pipes Division produces seamless stainless steel tubes, pipes and mother hollows in austenitic and duplex grades.

A seamless tube is formed without a welded joint. Production starts from a solid round of stainless steel, melted and cast in our own Steel Melting Shop. The heated round is pierced through its centre to form a hollow shell, so the tube wall is one continuous piece of steel around its full circumference.

The hollow is then brought to finished size in stages that reduce its diameter and wall thickness, with the steel annealed between passes and the surface cleaned before final straightening, cutting and testing. Mother hollows are also supplied as feedstock to tube makers who redraw them on their own mills.

Because the wall carries no weld line, seamless tube is the construction specified where a tube must hold pressure or heat: heat exchangers, boilers and process pipelines.

06

Packaging Division

500–1000 kg

Bundle weights

ISPM 15

Export wooden boxes

Packed bar bundles stacked in the dispatch bay

We, at Laxcon Steels, not only aim at producing high-quality stainless steel products but also placing them intact across our customers’ shelves.

We ensure the packaging of our products in different sizes while meeting the specific requirements of our customers according to industry standards. We have developed exclusive packaging processes along with special materials for effective and efficient packaging of our products. We also make sure that each product that we ship remains safe and protected during far-off transportation across high seas & surface transports.

We ship our products making use of a variety of packaging methodologies. Some of them include Standard Packaging- LDPE (Low-density Polyethene) and HDPE (High-density Polyethene), Cardboard Tube Packaging, Bubble Packing, Wooden Box Packaging, and Plastic Film Packaging. In some cases, as per customer preferences, we also use a combination of these packaging methodologies. All our stainless steel products, before going to the packaging department, undergo a stringent set of processes that include Colour Coding, Size Labeling, Surface Cleaning, Distance Ring Insertion, and Signode Strapping.

  • Packing in bundles of 500 – 1000kgs (1000 – 2000 lbs) covered with HDPE/LDPE with two lifting slings on each bundle.
  • In wooden boxes (Complying with ISPM 15 standard) of 500 – 1000 kgs (1000 – 2000lbs) with two lifting slings on each box.
  • Bars are also packed in fibre tube packing. Customized packing is also available.
  • Bundle is marked with the heat number, grade, size, net weight and gross weight.