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Diary of Tube Events
Largest
integrated
steel mill
in ASEAN
THE Taiwanese Formosa Plastics
Group has contracted German company
Freidrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG to
supply a 3-roll reducing and sizing
block in heavy-duty design (RSB) for its
Vietnam-based subsidiary Formosa Ha
Tinh Steel Corporation.
Formosa Plastics Group, with some
100 affiliate companies and about
100,000 employees worldwide, is the
largest private enterprise in Taiwan.
The RSB will be installed in the
combined wire rod and bar mill of the
new integrated steel mill project in the
Vung-Ang Economic Zone of the Ha Tinh
Province. This is located 410km south
of Hanoi City and 1,300km north of Ho-
Chi-Minh City. With a total production
capacity of 15 million tons/year this will
be the largest integrated steel mill in the
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian
Nations).
The 370mm heavy duty reducing and
sizing block will be operated as finishing
block in the new 600,000 t/a rolling mill
for special bar qualities downstream the
16-stand roughing and intermediate mill.
The RSB is equipped with four stand
positions and is designed for controlled
rolling at low temperatures down to
750°C. The 3-roll block rolls round bar
in coils within the range from 20mm Ø
to 55mm Ø.
The RSB allows rolling out of only
one pass series with just five feeders
from the roughing and intermediate mill.
Due to the ‘free-size’ rolling capability
any desired finished dimension within
the complete dimensional range can
be produced in any required sequence
with a minimum number of roll sets and
just a few stand changes. The optimum
adjustment values for motor speed, rolls
and guides as well as gear steps are
calculated by the bar mill configuration
system BAMICON in relation to the final
product.
Freidrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG –
Germany
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