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Following the 2018 installation of the “TANDEM” finishing mill, ELVAL proceeded with the installation of the “MINO” cold rolling mill, an investment amounting to a total of EUR 100 million, as part of the second phase of its 5 year investment plan.

This new addition to the production facilities demanded another triplet of 23 m. high metallic shelters that cover an area of 8,000 sq.m. and are flanked by the facilities auxiliary structures and buildings: a 9m deep 2,000 sq.m. basement, to host the mill’s hydraulic and cooling system, an additional 1,000 sq.m. large concrete building, to house large electrical transformers on ground floor and panels on first floor, while various control rooms and engineers’ workspace find their place on its two upper floors (1.000 sq.m. each). Modern equipment of oil fume cleansing and recycling was added to the new unit to further reduce the plant’s environmental footprint, dealing with both the new MINO mill’s and the adjoining 2001 SMS mill’s fumes. This added-on unit was housed in its own 500 sq.m. new shelter.

Besides the interior design of workspace and offices, our architectural studies and design once again dealt with optimization of construction details and finishings of the various buildings and shells, the circulation and fire-escape planning, and also found ways for architectural interventions within an intense industrial framework.

Last, but not least, the “High Bay II” warehouse: a 32m high 100m long fully automated multi-storey coil storage building, with a depth of 7m. underground to increase storage capacity, was built in between the MINO buildings and an identical “High Bay” warehouse that was paired together with the SMS mill’s premises back in 2001. It was back then, in 1999-2001, that our office took part in the design and construction of ELVAL industrial units’ buildings – and we have been commissioned various design projects for the ELVAL premises ever since then.