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Industry News
6 November 2013
Heavy wall thickness
tube mill for India
DANIELI W+K has delivered a new
special mill for the production of high
tensile strength material precision
tubes with ranges from 2½" to 7" and
a maximum wall thickness of ½" to a
customer in India.
The challenge for Danieli W+K was
designing a customised special tube
mill for Company Tube Products of
India, located in Chennai, since this
line will mainly produce precision tubes
for hydraulic cylinders used for earth
moving and construction machinery
and hollow sections for the steel
construction industry.
The complete line consists of fully
automatic strip preparation, a forming,
welding and sizing section and a newly
developed flying saw – the multi-
cut. The finishing line also provided
by Danieli W+K consists of a run-out
section, sample tube-cutting device and
an integrated flush-out station to flush
out the inside scarf. A chopper to cut
the inside scarf and a blow-out station
is incorporated into the flushing station.
The system is also equipped with an
automatic bundle station and a magnetic
portal packaging device for bundling
hexagonal and rectangular bundles for
round tubes and hollow sections.
The new enhanced multi-cutter
consists of two individually driven saw
blades on an orbital rotation system
which enables it to cut in two modes: with
one HSS saw blade for tubes ranging
from 2½" to 3½" and with the two-mode
system consisting of two tungsten-
carbide saw blades to cut tubes up to
7" in round and rectangular sections.
The saw blade drives are water-cooled
and well protected against particular
environmental conditions. Special
gearbox design and patented clamping
devices guarantee almost vibration-free
cutting and long saw blade life span. The
development of this design is the result
of the extensive experience of DWK
experts in cutting machine engineering
with much contribution also from saw
blade and gearbox suppliers.
With this new line Company Tube
Products plans to introduce the sale of
tubes into new market segments and in
particular thick walled-tubes for special
applications.
Production is scheduled to commence
in March 2014.
Danieli W+K – Italy
Website:
Heinrich Weiss leaves SMS
HEINRICH Weiss, who has been
responsible for the development and
leadership of the group of companies
for the last 45 years, will be resigning
from his post on the managing board
and will assume the chairmanship of the
supervisory board.
The present chairman, Dr Manfred
Bischoff, will retain his commitment
to the company as a member of
the supervisory board. Dr Joachim
Schönbeck, who is already a member of
the managing board, will be appointed
to represent the company externally.
Jointly with his colleagues, Burkhard
Dahmen and Eckhard Schulte, he will
continue to constitute the management
of SMS GmbH.
Dr Joachim Schönbeck will be
primarily responsible for SMS Meer
as before; Burkhard Dahmen will be
responsible for SMS Siemag (including
the Paul Wurth majority holding); and
Eckhard Schulte will be the CFO of the
group.
SMS Meer GmbH – Germany
Fax: +49 2161 350 1862
Email:
Website:
Mill for producing
high tensile tubes