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Industry N ews
STAHLWERK Thüringen GmbH recently
commissioned a new roughing stand
supplied by SMS Meer, Germany, for the
section rolling mill in Unterwellenborn.
The new two-high reversing stand is
designed for a rolling force of 10,000kN
and has a drive power of 4,400kW. Further
special technical features include the
automatic roll gap opening in the event of an
overload, the semi-automatic axial shifting
of the top roll for groove adjustment and the
significantly simplified roll changing.
The plant standstill time for the
modernisation was just six weeks. The old
roughing stand was dismantled and the
new stand installed. It includes a complete
drive train, working roller tables and side
guard manipulators as well as the complete
electrical and automation equipment. The
new rougher replaces a stand that has been
in operation since 1984.
Stahlwerk Thüringen belongs to the
Spanish Alfonso Gallardo Group. SMS Meer
GmbH is a company of the SMS group,
which is, under the roof of the SMS Holding
GmbH, a group of companies internationally
active in plant construction and mechanical
engineering for the steel and non-ferrous
metals industry. It consists of the two business
areas, SMS Siemag and SMS Meer. In 2010,
some 9,000 employees worldwide generated
a turnover of €3.1bn.
SMS Meer – Germany
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Stahlwerk Thüringen commissions
new roughing stand from SMS Meer
SPECIALISTS from TMK, a global producer
of pipes for the oil and gas industry, took
part in lowering a tubing string with premium-
class threaded connections into a well more
than 2.5km deep, situated on Lukoil’s Yury
Korchagin oil deposit in the Caspian Sea.
The pipes were produced at TMK’s
Sinarsky Pipe Plant, and the finishing
threading operations were carried out at the
TMK-Kaztrubprom manufacturing facility.
After the running-in, the tubing string was
subjected to an air-tightness test pressure of
200 atmospheres for 30 minutes. During the
testing, none of the TMK pipes was rejected
as defective by the customer.
TMK – Russia
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Tubes layed in 2.5km deep trench