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Industry News
Rise in production
quality at
Huaigang
Huaigang Special Steel Co Ltd, a company of the Chinese
Jiangsu Shagang Group, has placed an order with the
German company Freidrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG in Hilden
for the modernisation of their existing rod and bar mill. The
target of this modernisation, which will be reached to a high
degree by implementing a Kocks 3-roll reducing and sizing
block, is to raise the product quality in order to strengthen the
market position.
The new reducing and sizing block is dimensioned to operate
with four 3-roll stands and a nominal roll diameter of 215mm. It
will be implemented as finishing block in the 600,000 t/a rolling
mill behind an existing ten-year-old Danieli Morgårdshammar
roughing and intermediate mill consisting of 18 2-high HV
stands. The 3-roll block will roll straight bars from 13mm Ø to
22mm Ø onto the cooling bed.
The RSB allows rolling out of only one pass series from the
roughing and intermediate mill and thus significantly reduces
the number of required feeders. Any desired 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 Kocks scope of supply includes the 3-roll reducing
and sizing block with automatic quick stand changing system,
remotely controlled adjustment of passes and guides as well
as the roll shop equipment with quick roll change and CAPAS
– the computer aided system for accurate adjustment of rolls
and roller guides of 3-roll stands.
Friedrick Kocks GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 2103 54028
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Samuel closes
US tube facility
SAMUEL, Son & Co subsidiary Associated Tube has closed
its lone US manufacturing facility.
The company is closing the Elizabethtown, Kentucky plant
due to “poor ongoing economic conditions,” according to a
prepared statement.
The facility previously produced laser-welded stainless
tubes for food, pharmaceutical and industrial markets.
Associated Tube’s facilities in Markham, Ontario, Canada
and Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico will absorb the business
previously handled in Elizabethtown, the company states.
Associated Tube – USA
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