EoW March 2013

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Building on strong Turkish history

Going solo After more than 25 years working in cooperation, La Farga Group (Spain) and Continuus-Properzi (Italy) have decided to change strategy for approaching the new opportunities offered by the market and proceed independently. All works and commissioning in progress will be completed to all buyers of CCR copper rod lines and refining furnaces, in combination with La Farga refining technology developed and perfected during the past 25 years. Marketing director

Combining with education seems to be proving fruitful for Deka Surface Technologies. The fortunes of the Turkish company, formed in 1957 as a simple welding store, has changed since Kemal and Omer Demirkurt, sons of the original owner, took over the business in 1989. Since their involvement and investment on CNC machines, the company has become partners with many local companies in the areas of automotive, agriculture, printing, steel and iron, defence, marine and aviation. In 1989 they started their first hot system fusing coating and officially started their coating business. As they have already gained vast experience on metals in general, combining it with coating has put them in a lucrative postion. Together with their unstoppable desire for innovation, Deka has grown pretty fast. They have always had their hands into the metals, but also, in the theoretical side, they have started working with universities on finding new coating solutions. business

▲ ▲ Deka has grown quickly thanks to the desire for innovation

Omer, from the technical side of the business, added: “Coating is a sophisticated subject, because many things should be taken into consideration. “Understanding the reason of wear is very important for the choice of the coating. Tungsten carbide, aluminium oxide, chrome oxide and zirconium oxide are the most popular ones for the wire drawing sector.” responsible

and coating parts for the wire drawing sector. “The power of Deka is not only due to experience but also to the ability to control the whole manufacturing thanks to its in-house machining process,” said Kemal. “Deka has specialised in applying coatings that protect metal components against wear, abrasion and corrosion. “Many industries have benefited from Deka’s know-how and its capability to detect the problem and offer the solution.”

Deka Ltd Sti – Turkey Website : www.deka.com.tr

In 1998, Deka started producing

Tongling orders Contirod® plant

▲ ▲ Terje Moldestad

The casting cross-section is 90mm x 70mm, followed by the rolling line with a 12-stand rolling mill. The enormous reduction in the cross-sectional area from the cast ingot to the wire rod creates a very fine-grained material microstructure. “The modern and energy-efficient technology such as the gas control system and the variable-frequency drives make the plant one of the most cost-effective of its kind,” claims Thomas Schatz, project manager at SMS Meer. Commissioning of the line is expected in autumn 2013.

The Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group from Anhui Province has ordered a complete Contirod casting and rolling plant for the production of copper wire rod. The high-performance line, from SMS Meer, can produce 225,000 tons of copper wire rod per year from cathodes, and is intended to further strengthen Tongling’s position in the copper business. The Contirod line is designed for a capacity of 35 tons per hour, and will be one of the largest integrated copper casting and rolling plants in China. The line comprises a gas control system on the SMS shaft furnace for melting copper cathodes and a modular Hazelett twin-belt caster.

EFD Induction has appointed Terje Moldestad as new group sales and marketing director. Mr Moldestad takes over from Truls Larsen, who

is moving into the company’s business development department.

Mr Moldestad took over his new role on 1 st January and is based in Skien, Norway.

SMS Meer GmbH – Germany Website : www.sms-meer.com

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