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Hectic A book ❍ Companies in China, Korea and Taiwan have boosted Kocks’ order book this year
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IT has been a hectic few months for
German wire rod and bar mill
manufacturer Friedrich Kocks.
Korean special steel producer SeAH
Changwon Integrated Special Steel
Corp chose the company, along with
Morgårdshammar AB and AIC, for a
modernisation project at its steel plant
in Changwon.
The SeAH group acquired SeAH
Cangwon Integrated Special Steel
Corp, formerly known as POSCO
Specialty Steel and Sammy Steel, in
March 2015.
The company is Korea’s only domestic
producer of stainless steel rods and
wires made from high-quality special
steel materials.
With an annual steelmaking capacity
reaching 1.2 million tons and one
million tons of steel products, SeAH
CSS is among the top ten producers of
special steels.
Two existing Kocks blocks – a
precision sizing block (PSB) and a
370/10 3-roll intermediate block will be
replaced by two 2-high HV stands,
three loopers, a crop and cobble shear
and a 370++ RSB SCS® of the latest
design with six stand positions.
Chinese company Yongxing Special
Stainless Steel Co Ltd placed an order
with Kocks for an RSB® 370++/4
reducing and sizing block in SCS®
design.
The private company, listed on the
stock exchange, was established in
2000 by its parent company and two
subsidiaries, Huzhou Yongxing Special
Steel Imp and Exp Co Ltd, and Huzhou
Yongxing Materials Recycling Co Ltd.
It is one of the three leading Chinese
stainless steel producers with a
production of 250,000t/a.
The 3-roll reducing and sizing block
will be implemented in a new
combined wire rod and bar mill
producing high-quality stainless steel
as well as nickel-based alloys. The
Kocks block will be installed
downstream of a reversing roughing
mill and an intermediate continuous
mill consisting of 14 HV-stands.
Taiwan company Feng Hsin Steel Co
Ltd has also signed a contract with
Kocks for the delivery and
commissioning of an RSB SCS
370++/5 for its works in Taichung City.
This RSB of the latest SCS generation
will replace the existing Kocks
precision sizing block operated by
Feng Hsin since 1990.
Besides the RSB SCS, the scope of
supply comprises the engineering and
process for a water cooling line for low
temperature rolling, a snap shear and
roller tables, as well as assembly and
commissioning supervision.
The contract is completed by the
configuration program Bamicon, which
calculates, based on the largest
database of material characteristics,
the optimum adjusting values for motor
speeds, rolls and guides as well as the
gear stage depending on the required
end product; the quickest automatic
stand changing system in the industry
as well as the rollshop with quick roll
change; and CAPAS, the
computer-aided system to precisely
adjust rolls and roller guides of 3-roll
stands.
Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG –
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