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18 March 2013
Industry News
SMS Meer revamps
USA steel mill
NUCOR-YAMATO Steel Company in
Blytheville, Arkansas, USA, has placed
an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for
the modernisation and upgrade of its
NYS No1 steel rolling mill. SMS Meer
supplies the rolling mill equipment which
will enable the rolling of wider sheet
piling products.
The package of SMS Meer includes
charging and discharging machines
for the reheating furnace, modern
primary descaling equipment, a new
BD 1 (Break Down) stand and three
new CCS® (Compact Cartridge Stand)
finishing stands.
The core of the project is a new three-
stand finishing mill which replaces
the existing universal finishing stand.
In addition to the replaced stand, two
more stands will be installed in order to
provide the required passes for rolling
of wide sheet piles. All new finishing
stands employ the CCS® design with
hydraulic screw-down, adjustment
under load and quick program change
in only 20 minutes.
The finishing mill can be operated in
two different ways: either in two-high
mode for rolling of structural shapes
or in a universal edger for finish-rolling
of beams. The new stands of the
CCS® type enable the wide sheet pile
production and contribute to increase
the productivity and quality of beam
production.
TheexistingBD1standwill be replaced
by a new one with an increased screw-
down range for large slabs as well as a
higher screw-down speed and accuracy.
New features such as breakaway
cylinders for overload protection and
rolling force measurement as well as
high-strength locks provide advanced
functionality and reliability compared to
the existing stand.
Nucor-Yamato Steel, a joint venture
between Nucor Corporation and Yamato
Kogyo, operates two mills in Blytheville
for medium and heavy sections. The
steel mill No 1 was originally installed
in 1987. The installation of the new
equipment is expected to be completed
in early 2014.
SMS Meer GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 2161 350 1862
Email:
Website:
TATA Steel UK orders
two new cranes
TATA Steel at Brierley Hill in the
West Midlands, UK, has ordered two
SMARTON® cranes for coil lifting from
Scotland–based Konecranes UK
Industrial Crane Division. The contract,
worth just under £1m, is for the supply of
two 32 ton SMTD cranes operating on a
31.8m span and fitted with SMT double
girder trolleys with a lift height of 9.5m.
The SMT stands for SMT SMARTON®,
which has an intelligent, yet easy-to-
use Human Interface to Machine (HIM)
system keeping the user continuously
up to date on not only the weight of the
load but also its position relative to the
available workspace. In addition, the
crane monitors its own condition and
recommends when and what kind of
inspection or preventive maintenance
should be performed. This way, the
customer can better plan and minimise
maintenance shutdowns, thereby
maximising uptime and saving costs.
Both cranes will also have Konecranes
TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring and
Reporting service where the cranes’
performance is being continuously
monitored remotely and should anything
arise then a Konecranes engineer will
automatically be despatched to site,
without any request or call from the client.
The cranes for TATA Steel will also
have Konecranes DynAHoist and
DynAC closed loop inverter variable
speed control systems, Remox (HIM)
and radio control with a spare transmitter.
Konecranes UK
Fax: +44 1355 263654
Website: