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Parts can be produced within a length
range of 10mm to 640mm, with tube
diameters from 3mm to 120mm and bars
from 3mm to 80mm. The standard stock
length of loaded bars is from 3,000mm to
6,500mm, while a maximum of 12,000mm
can be accommodated upon request.
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The merger between SMS Schloemann-
Siemag AG and the metallurgical plant
division of Mannesmann Demag AG in
1999 to form SMS Demag AG created a
world leader in the construction of plants for
the steel, aluminium and copper industries
with a complete process chain extending
from crude iron production right through
steelmaking, continuous casting, rolling
mill and tubemaking technologies, up to
processing and finishing lines for hot and
cold strip.
Within the structure of SMS Demag AG,
SMS Meer was established from the former
‘Tube and Copper Plants’ business unit of
Mannesmann Demag Metallurgy.
In 2001, the ‘Long Product Rolling Mills
Division’ was integrated into SMS Meer.
As part of a reorganisation in 2003, SMS
Meer became part of the ‘Tube, Long
Product and Forging Technology’ business
area of the SMS Group.
The product range of SMS Meer
essentially consists of manufacturing
plants and automated finishing systems
for seamless and welded steel tubes
(diameters from 4-1,800mm), hydraulic
presses such as open-die forging presses
and powder presses, and casting and
rolling plants for sections, wire rod and
bar steel.
This is in addition to casting and rolling
plants for extrusion billets, strips, wire
rod, anodes and tubes made from non-
ferrous and precious metals, plants for
the production and further processing of
aluminium billets and slabs, together with
plants for recycling aluminium.
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Tube & Pipe Technology is the international
trade magazine for the tube and pipe
industries, published six times a year in the
English language. Covering the production,
processing and utilisation of tube and pipe,
each issue provides coverage of essential
industry news, personnel changes and
technology and product updates.
The magazine includes regular topical
columns such as ‘From the Americas’ –
› Sinico’s Top 1000 CNC automatic cut-off and
end-finishing machine
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