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Industry News
14 Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2007
Order books bulging
at Concast
Concast, Switzerland, has seen the
order books bulging recently, picking
up a number of contracts worldwide.
Zhangjiagang Rongsheng Steelmaking
Co Ltd, a subsidiary of the Shagang
Group, China, has ordered a five-strand
billet caster, the eighth successive facility.
The caster will be set up at Zhang Jia
Gang City in the Jiangsu Province.
Tunisia’s Elfouladh, Société Tunésienne
de Sidérurgie, has ordered a 25-tonne
arc furnace, following the successful
revamping of the existing ABB-EAF in
June 2005.
The new arc furnace, with an annual
production of 230,000 tonnes, will be
equipped with EBT lip and ConsoTech
burner. Commissioning is scheduled
for the end of 2007.
Mechel Targoviste AG, Romania, a
member of the Russian Mechel group,
has placed an order to build a
continuous caster. With its three
strands, the caster will guarantee an
annual production of 500,000 tonnes.
Concast is also supplying Pohang
Iron & Steel Co, Ltd (POSCO), Korea,
a three-strand continuous bloom
caster – increasing the annual capacity
at the site to 1.1 million tonnes.
Zhangjiagang Hongchang Wire Rod
Co Ltd, a member of the Shagang
Group, China, has ordered a minimill
from Concast.
The commissioning of the minimill,
with an annual capacity of 1.15 million
tonnes, is planned for the spring
of 2007.
Kardemir AS, with head office in
Karabük, Turkey, has awarded to
Concast an order for a 90-tonne
vacuum degassing facility with
mechanical vacuum pumps.
Concast AG – Switzerland
Fax: +41 1202 8122
Email:
sales @concast.ch
Website
Joining forces pays off
for Nashtec
Joining forces has been one big
success story for Nashtec – the
offshoot of an alliance between
Nabaltec AG and American Alumina
producer Sherwin Alumina.
Last October in their ultra-modern
newly-built facility in Corpus Christi,
Texas, they started production of fine
precipitated Aluminium hydroxide as
halogen free, flame retardant filler
(registered trademark Apyral®40CD).
The plant, adjacent to the Sherwin
Alumina site, includes a precipitator, a
drying and filter system, and has an
annual production capability of 25,000
tonnes.
Nabaltec AG – Germany
Fax: +49 9431 61557
Email :
Website:
Rothe Erde orders a further ring rolling machine
SMS Eumuco GmbH, Germany, has received an order from Rothe Erde
GmbH, part of ThyssenKrupp Technologies, Germany, for the supply of a
further ring rolling machine for its manufacturing works in Dortmund.
Rothe Erde is a major
producer of large-sized anti-
friction bearings, such as
ball joints and roller-bearing
slewing rings, wire-race
bearings and seamless-rolled
rings of steel and non-ferrous
metals. The company will
use the new radial-axial
ring rolling machine (type
RAW63(80)/63(80)-1250/450)
to expand its existing
production capacities, to
incorporate a planned pro-
duct range of rings weighing
up to around 250kg. The
maximum dimensions of rings produced by the machine are 1,250mm ring
outside diameter and 450mm ring height.
The new ring rolling machine will form an integral part of a completely new
production line, which will be the fourth production facility for rings in
Dortmund, Germany.
At its Dortmund works and at the Rotek subsidiary works in the USA,
the company operates a total of three ring blank presses and four ring rolling
machines from SMS Eumuco.
A further ring rolling machine of size RAW 200(250)/200(250)-5500/630 is
currently being built, for ring production in the Chinese manufacturing works
of XREM, belonging to Rothe Erde, in Xuzhou, China.
SMS Eumuco GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 214 734 1000
Email: • Website:
Rothe Erde manufactures large-sized anti-friction
bearings
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