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May 2016 9
Tenova LOI Thermprocess
strengthens market position
▲ ▲ Bell-type annealing plant for wire rod and drawn wire
A total of 12 new orders in 24 months
underlines an impressive order intake
track record for Tenova LOI Thermprocess
in the segment of heat treatment of wire
rods and drawn wires.
The orders include the supply, erection
and commissioning of bell-type annealing
plants for leading companies such
as Aperam (France), Voestalpine Wire
(Austria and Germany), POSCO (Korea),
Daeho (Korea), Hyundai Special Steel
(Korea), Norm Civata (Turkey), Saarstahl
AG (Germany), Jindal South West Ltd
(India) and ZDB (Czech Republic).
With a bidding-conversion rate of 80
per cent the experts of Tenova LOI
Thermprocess convinced a global
customer base also including a number of
prestigious first-time customers.
The optimisation of the annealing
base and the high-capacity impeller,
which provides for annealing capacity
increase, substantially reduces the
specific consumption at the same time.
Additional centring devices at the
annealing base ensure a longer lifetime of
the inner cover baffle which is put down
on the base during the annealing cycle.
Thanks to a newly developed base
sealing profile a longer lifetime of these
special sealings has been achieved,
and larger tolerances in the field of
the base flange/inner cover flange are
compensated.
The high-performance JET-cooling hoods
patented by LOI are used in all orders. Not
only do they ensure short cooling times,
but additionally extremely low noise
emission values.
All plants are equipped with a modern
ProView® supervisory control computer
system.
The bell-type annealing plants usually
comprise fail-safe base control units of
Siemens type S7-300F.
For the first time the fail-safe base control
unit ATS-700F, which has been developed
by Tenova LOI Thermprocess, is in
application.
It complements the wide model range
successfully used for more than 30 years.
Tenova LOI Thermprocess – Germany
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