A steelworks in North Wales is benefitting from one of the biggest investments on its site in recent years. Tata Steel in Shotton is investing £3m to upgrade its colour coating paint process in a bid to improve quality, make cost savings and reduce paint use by 650,000 litres a year.
The funding will be used to upgrade the coater heads in Tata's two Colorcoat production lines. Commissioning of the new finish coater heads on the first line has been completed, with work on the second line expected to complete in June.
Lead Engineer for the project Dave Prytherch said: “Coater heads are fundamental to the Colorcoat production process, being used to apply paint to the steel strip substrate. Upgrading them will deliver greater control of the paint application process by improving how the paint is transferred onto the strip, and will give us infinite repeatability.
