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Technologynews
Germany’s Queins & Co GmbH is
offering a new range of bow twisters
for products that include steel ropes,
subsea cables, power cables and
speciality cables. The new machines
are built for a payoff range between
630mm and 2,000mm.
The photo shows a bow twister for 2m
payoff reels, displayed at wire
Düsseldorf 2008. It is believed to be an
ideal closing machine for round
conductors with cross sections of up
to 240mm2.
This design is used for insulated
conductors, for steel strands and for
bare aluminium conductors.
It is capable of high line speeds, faster
than traditional closing machines.
Queins & Co GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 2472 3014
Email:
Website:
In 2005 Stefana SpA, manufacturer
of bars and wire rod, awarded a
contract to SMS Meer for the supply
and installation of a complete bar mill
for 120 t/h (140 t/h with hot charge).
The objective of the project, named
Dream Steel, was to boost straight
bar and spool production.
With its annual capacity of 700,000t,
this new plant has one of the highest
productivities in southern Europe.
The product mix of the bar mill
includes rebars and plain rounds with
diameters from 8 to 16mm produced
with the two-slit rolling method, and
with diameters from 18 to 40mm
produced in a single line. The SMS
Meer scope of supply included a
walking-hearth furnace, the rolling
line, the finishing section and two
VCC® Vertical Compact Coiling lines.
When planning the layout of the mill,
space was allowed for the future
installation of a billet welder and
possible expansion for the production
of wire rod.
All products are delivered onto the
cooling bed with a speed of up to 40
m/s using the patented HSD® system.
The entire mill has been designed and
equipped, however, to allow a speed
increase up to 50 m/s in the future.
SMS Meer – Germany
Fax: +49 211 881 4386
Website:
New rolling mill for rebars and plain rounds
Cable twister range
❍ Queins’ bow twister on show at wire Düsseldorf 2008