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2014
Industry News
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New distributors
FUSION equipment specialist McElroy Manufacturing, USA,
has added three new distributors that will serve domestic and
international customers.
The new distributors are R&B Company, San Jose,
California, USA; Miami International Machinery and
Equipment Corp (Mimeco), Medley, Florida, USA; and
SOFIPO, Moscow, Russia. SOFIPO is a spin-off of PALECO,
a Russian company that provides a full range of pipe clamps
and electrofusion products manufactured in the UK, and will
now be a supplier of McElroy’s butt fusion equipment.
McElroy
– USA
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HAPL delivered
to Chinese
steelmaker
FIVES has signed off on an annealing and pickling line for
hot-rolled stainless steel strips (HAPL) for the steelmaker
South West Stainless Steel (SWSS). Fives designed the
entire processing line, which combines a wide range of
technologies the group has developed for the steel sector,
including thermal, mechanical and chemical capacities.
The annealing and pickling line has an annual capacity
of 700,000 metric tons of hot-rolled stainless steel strips. In
order to achieve the required quality level, Fives supplied
high-precision equipment that enables steelmakers to
manufacture a finished product that meets their quality and
performance objectives.
With a capacity of 128 tons/hr, the furnace can heat
stainless steel strips (from 2 to 6mm thick and from 900 to
1,350mm wide – austenitics series 200 and 300) to 1,150°C
at process speeds of 80m/min. It combines a water cooling
section with a soft cooling section to secure the cooling control
and excellent strip flatness. The technologies in this section
optimise and reduce the furnace’s energy consumption.
The pickling section includes a design that integrates
the latest materials and automatic features to efficiently
and effectively remove the sludge from the system while
maintaining the optimum concentration of chemicals. This is
combined with a system that minimises the water consumption
by utilising the spent water from various sub-systems as the
feed makeup water in others, minimising the flow sent to the
waste water treatment facility.
The project was carried out over 17 months, from signing
the contract to the first coil. The line reached its 500t annealed
and pickled coil in the second week of production, and is
currently producing more than 2,700 coils per month.
Fives
– France
Fax: +33 1 45 23 75 71
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