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12 Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2014
Industrynews
Desmond’s
new role
Beta LaserMike
has appointed
Desmond Goh as
channel manager
for Asia. This new
appointment
enhances the
company’s
go-to-market
approach to drive
alignment and
optimisation
across all partner
segments in the
Southeast Asia
region.
In his new role,
Mr Goh will be
responsible for
managing and
expanding sales
channel
operations for
Beta LaserMike’s
portfolio of
measurement and
control solutions.
His key focus is
on strategically
driving sales and
increasing
revenues by
identifying new
opportunities and
building on
existing
relationships with
customers and
channel partners.
Beta LaserMike
– USA
Website: www.
betalasermike.
com
❍ Desmond Goh
Prysmian Group has completed operations for
the construction and execution of a submarine
power cable link to connect Phu Quoc Island to
the national power grid in Vietnam.
Phu Quoc Island is situated 45km west of Ha
Tien town, Kien Giang province in southern
Vietnam.
The submarine cable link will play a major role in
the province’s 2020 socio-economic
development plan aimed at making Phu Quoc
Island into a special administrative-economic
zone by the end of the decade.
The Phu Quoc link is the first submarine power
cable link installed by a utility company in
Vietnam, and at 56km is south-east Asia’s
longest undersea cable system.
The Phu Quoc cable connection comprises
three 630mm² 110kV copper, single wire
armoured XLPE insulated submarine cables,
installed by the Prysmian cable laying vessel
‘Cable Enterprise ’.
Prysmian completed the project ahead of
schedule, after only two months, and just in
time to begin operation on the occasion of the
2014 Lunar New Year holiday.
The inauguration ceremony for the interconnection
took place on 6th February and was attended by
Vietnamese prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung;
standing secretary of secretariat of the central
committee of the communist party of Vietnam, Lê
Hong Anh; politicians and dignitaries from the
central Hanoi government; and the Italian
ambassador to Vietnam.
Prysmian Group – Italy
Website:
South-east Asia’s longest undersea cable
BEIMAN Special Steel Co, part
of the Dongbei Special Steel
Group, has concluded a
contract with German
company Friedrich Kocks for
the delivery, assembly and
commissioning of a reducing
and sizing block (RSB)
combined with the equipment
and processes for tempera-
ture-controlled rolling (LTR).
After positive results and
experiences with the operation
of the three-roll RSB in the
combined wire rod and bar mill
at Dalian Special Steel,
another company belonging to
Dongbei, the group decided to
expand and modernise its bar
mill by implementing the
three-roll RSB technology of
the independent family-owned
company in Hilden for reasons
of trouble-free operation and
quality improvement.
After having completed the
modernisation, the mill will
produce 504,000 t/a bars in
SBQ-quality within the
dimension range of 16 to
100mm diameter. The new
heavy-duty 370mm reducing
and sizing block will be
equipped with four stand
positions, and is designed for
temperature controlled rolling
at low temperatures. The RSB
will be operated as finishing
block in the existing bar mill
downstream of the two-high
roughing and intermediate mill
consisting of 20 stands.
The three-roll block is able to
roll any finished size of the
whole product range as a
straight length onto the cooling
bed out of a few entry
cross-sections from the
roughing and intermediate mill.
The rolling configuration
program Bamicon calculates
optimum adjusting values for
motor speed, rolls and guides
as well as gear stages
depending on the requested
finished product.
The LTR process with
closed-loop control and
corresponding equipment for
the whole mill line is also
included in the order. Kocks is
in charge for the process
know-how as well as for
engineering and hardware.
For the first time, the Kocks
Microstructure Simulator
(KMS) will be applied as a
supplement to the LTR
process. Kocks developed
KMS as a new software
program for the process
simulation in long product
mills, particularly for the
three-roll technology.
It simulates the temperature
development of the rolled
product, calculates the quality
and quantity of the
micro-structural development
and predicts the mechanical
properties of the rolled
cross-sections.
The scope of supply also
includes the quick automatic
stand change system, the
stand and roll workshop with
quick roll change; CAPAS, the
computer-aided system for
precise adjustment of rolls and
guides in the stand; and the
remote control of passes and
guides of the three-roll stands
in the mill line.
The total package is completed
by supervision of assembly,
commissioning and training of
the customer’s personnel.
The Kocks three-roll reducing
and sizing block will enable
Beiman to produce high-
quality bars trouble-free and
economically, which is esp-
ecially requested by the
continuously growing auto-
motive industry in China; thus
strengthening and expanding
its own market position.
Beiman Special Steel Co Ltd
– China
Website:
New mill for Chinese steel company