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Industry news
14 Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2012
Nanjing Iron and Steel Co signed a contract with the German company
Friedrich Kocks for the supply and the commissioning of a three-roll reducing
and sizing block 370/4 in heavy-duty design [RSB++] for a new SBQ bar mill.
NISCO is part of the Nanjing Iron and Steel Union Company Limited with its
headquarters in Nanjing and is listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange.
It has approximately 11,400 employees and operates blast furnaces and rolling
mills, and had a production of 6.8m tons in 2011.
After completion the new rolling mill will produce 800,000t/a of first class
SBQ-bar within the range of 16-80mm diameter. Downstream the roughing and
intermediate mill, consisting of 20 stands, the four stand 370mm reducing and
sizing block will produce all finished dimensions in coils and in straight lengths
onto the cooling bed. The three-roll RSB design also enables controlled rolling at
low temperatures within the range of up to 60mm diameter.
The heavy duty RSB allows rolling out of only one pass series from the roughing
and intermediate mill and significantly reduces the number of required feeders.
Any required 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 optimum adjustment values for motor speed, rolls and guides as well as gear
steps are calculated by the bar mill configuration system Bamicon in relation to
the final product.
Besides the reducing and sizing block with the automatic quick stand changing
system the scope of supply comprises the bar mill configuration program
Bamicon, and the remote-controlled adjustment of pass and guides of the
three-roll stands in the mill line as well as the roll shop with quick roll change and
Capas, the computer aided system for accurate adjustment of rolls and guides in
the stands.
The supervision of erection, commissioning and the training of customer
personnel complete the contract package.
Delivery is expected for the third quarter of 2013.
Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG – Germany
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Bar mill deal is done New beam furnace
for India
Tenova LOI Italimpianti and Tenova
Hypertherm have signed a
contract with BMM Ispat Ltd for a
160t/h walking beam furnace.
BMM Ispat, located at Hospet, in
the state of Karnataka, South India,
is setting up a 850,000tpa
merchant bar mill with all upstream
facilities such as blast furnace,
coke oven batteries, steel melting
shop, and continuous caster as
part of its 2 million tonnes per year
steel plant, which will integrate an
existing operational plant
producing sponge iron, pellets,
TMT bars and power. Siemens VAI
will supply the rolling mills.
BMM Ispat chose Tenova as
furnace supplier due to its
technical references and
performance of the furnaces
supplied for similar applications in
India. The main feature of the new
furnace is the use of low calorific
value maximising the use of blast
furnace gas. The combustion
system of the new furnace will be
fuel flexible, allowing use of 100%
HFO, fuel mix of BFG and HFO as
well as mixed gas in the future.
With this contract, Tenova LOI
Italimpianti and Tenova Hypertherm
have further strengthened their
presence in the Indian market.
Tenova LOI Italimpianti – Italy
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