TPT March 2011

I ndustry N ews Rise in production

quality at Huaigang

Huaigang Special Steel Co Ltd, a company of the Chinese Jiangsu Shagang Group, has placed an order with the German company Freidrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG in Hilden for the modernisation of their existing rod and bar mill. The target of this modernisation, which will be reached to a high degree by implementing a Kocks 3-roll reducing and sizing block, is to raise the product quality in order to strengthen the market position. The new reducing and sizing block is dimensioned to operate with four 3-roll stands and a nominal roll diameter of 215mm. It will be implemented as finishing block in the 600,000 t/a rolling mill behind an existing ten-year-old Danieli Morgårdshammar roughing and intermediate mill consisting of 18 2-high HV stands. The 3-roll block will roll straight bars from 13mm Ø to 22mm Ø onto the cooling bed. The RSB allows rolling out of only one pass series from the roughing and intermediate mill and thus significantly reduces the number of required feeders. Any desired finished dimension of the complete dimensional range can be produced in any desired sequence with a minimum number of roll sets and just a few stand changes. The Kocks scope of supply includes the 3-roll reducing and sizing block with automatic quick stand changing system, remotely controlled adjustment of passes and guides as well as the roll shop equipment with quick roll change and CAPAS – the computer aided system for accurate adjustment of rolls and roller guides of 3-roll stands. Friedrick Kocks GmbH & Co KG – Germany Fax: +49 2103 54028 Email: v.d.heiden@kocks.de Samuel closes US tube facility SAMUEL, Son & Co subsidiary Associated Tube has closed its lone US manufacturing facility. The company is closing the Elizabethtown, Kentucky plant due to “poor ongoing economic conditions,” according to a prepared statement. The facility previously produced laser-welded stainless tubes for food, pharmaceutical and industrial markets. Associated Tube’s facilities in Markham, Ontario, Canada and Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico will absorb the business previously handled in Elizabethtown, the company states. Associated Tube – USA Website: www.associatedtube.com

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