wiredinUSA May 2014

Vessel conversion

Turkish steelmaker orders rolling mill

The Prysmian Group will convert its vessel “Cable Enterprise” from a moored cable-laying barge into a barge able to use its own propulsion within the work site. The vessel will be converted into a DP2 ship that will operateautonomouslywithout the need of tugs during cable laying and will have a total of 9.2MW of power supplying six thrusters. Upgrade works will include a new cable tank for future HVDC projects. The vessel will retain its ability to ground out and operate in shallow waters. The Cable Enterprise vessel became part of Prysmian Group in November 2012 with the acquisition of Global Marine Systems Energy Ltd, and the entire team has become part of the company under the name of Prysmian Powerlink Services.

Turkish steelmaker Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) has ordered an SMS Meer rolling mill for the production of surface-quenched and tempered rebars, straight bars, wire rod and bar in coils. With commissioning scheduled for early 2015, the mill's phase one capacity will be 700kt per annumandwill double incapacity to 1.4Mt per year on completion of phase two. The mill comprises a walking-beam reheating furnace with a capacity of 150 tons per hour, 18 modern housingless two-high stands in H/V arrangement, a precision sizing mill (PSM), shears, cooling lines, cooling bed with finishing facilities, a wire rod line with ten-stand MEERdrive ® wire rod block, laying head, LCC ® , coil handling equipment and two coil compactors, plus a coiling line with two coilers and cooling facilities. Using the PSM, with hydraulic roll adjustment under load, all finished sizes for bar in coils (20mm to 55mm in diameter) and SBQ bars (20mm to 100mm in diameter) can be cost-effectively produced even in small batches, claims SMS Meer. The mill is designed for amaximum speed of 120mper second for wire rod and 16.5m per second for bars.

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