wiredInUSA March 2018

First heat at second mill

New premises

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First heat has been produced at the second MI DA ® micromill supplied to Egypt by Danieli. The mill is located at National Port Said Steel (NPSS) - Egyptian Steel #2 in Al Ain Al Sokhna. The micromill features endless casting and rolling technology to produce commercial steel rebar for construction applications. The new mill is the same model as the first MI DA commissioned in Egypt in 2016 and located in Beni Suef, also belonging to Egyptian Steel. Each plant has a design capacity of 830,000 tonnes per year: 530,000 tonnes per year of rebar in bundles are produced in endless casting and rolling through a single line, and the remaining 300,000 tonnes are cast through two additional casting strands in 130mm 2 billets. The 165mm 2 billet of the endless line is cast at over 6m per minute, in-line rolled, quenched into 10mm to 25mm rebars and finished in perfect bundles. The Danieli direct rolling and bundling system performs direct cutting to final length, which is said to offer additional yield savings of up to 3 percent when compared with conventional technologies.

Plasmait, the Austrian supplier of plasma heat and surface treatment machinery for wire, tube and strip products, has moved to a new factory in Lannach, near Graz, Austria. The new facility includes a large shop floor space, and hosts four heat and surface treatment demonstration and trial lines. Demonstration lines are used for heat treatment trials on ferrous and non-ferrous materials across a wide temperature range, or for surface cleaning, surface activation or coating on client materials. Demonstrations of the PlasmaPreplate process are performed in line with a hot dip tin bath for acid-free and flux- free hot dip tinning of copper, steel and aluminum alloys. The process can perform simultaneous heat treatment of the material, prior to tinning. Demonstration lines are also available for rental, allowing clients to test plasma treatment machinery at their own facilities and integrated into the existing manufacturing process. Plasmait also offers demonstrations and testing on its batch plasma treatment machine, where components and parts can be plasma treated. The batchmachine is designed for a wide temperature range and can be utilized with various process gases including hydrogen. The machine’s cooling system allows adjustable cooling rates.

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