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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.
Vessel
conversion
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.
Turkish steelmaker
orders rolling mill