EuroWire November 2014

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New technology plant for Mittal

Dr Jeremy Hodge, chief executive of the British Approvals Service for Cables (BASEC), anticipates a strong demand for the soon-to-open cable fire testing facility, as the cable industry moves to implement the Construction Products Regulation 2011 (CPR). BASEC’s headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK, are into the commissioning phase and will go fully live by the end of this year. new re-configurable fire test labs and a ladder rack rig, joining BASEC’s existing smoke and halogen testing facilities, represent a considerable investment for the approvals and testing body and further expand the capability of the largest dedicated testing facility in Europe. He says BASEC expects there will be increased demand from its current clients for the fire testing of cables in accordance with the CPR and the test labs will also be open to other cable manufacturers and traders seeking to conform to the regulations as they become applicable to cables. “In anticipation of this, BASEC has made a substantial investment in laboratories, The test laboratories at Dr Hodge says the three • Reheating furnace with moving hearth for uniform heating and low scale formation, with input size of 160 x 160mm billet • Descaler before roughing stands to remove scale formed during reheating • Intermediate rolling on horizontal-vertical roll configuration to give better control during rolling due to no-twist arrangement • Delta-type ten-stand wire rod block with post-rolling arrangement of forced cooling, retarded cooling and water quenching to achieve Mittal Corp Limited (MCL), an ISO 9001 & ISO 14000 certified company that manufactures stainless steel flats (200 series) in India, has set up a new technology plant at Pithampur to manufacture stainless steel, alloy steel and special steel rods in coils, rounds, stainless steel reinforcement bars and QTR rebars. The entire plant and machinery has come from Danieli Morgardshammar, Italy, a manufacturer of rolling mill and steel plant equipment. Key features include:

▲ ▲ A new technology plant for Mittal Corp at Pithampur, India

A new steel melt shop is being set up to produce niche grades for specialised applications like nuclear, aerospace, air craft industry and defence hardware.

grain size/structure and mechanical properties for different grades • Level II automation to ensure dimensional tolerances better than international designated standards in accordance with requirement of customers

Mittal Corp Ltd – India Website : www.mittalcorp.net

New BASEC lab facilities to meet demand for CPR fire tests

equipment and a dedicated team of staff and we have expanded the range of our services to meet the demands of the industry,”said Dr Hodge. “At Milton Keynes we have combined the expertise and experience of our staff with state-of-the-art equipment within first-class facilities to serve our clients from around the world who hold BASEC approvals. “And with the implementation of the CPR for cables we also expect there will now be a demand from other manufacturers who do not have access to the kind of facilities we can offer, such as production/ certification and development testing of their products. We will also be able to turn test samples around quickly and competitively.” BASEC laboratories can carry out a number of cable fire tests: BS EN 50200; BS EN 50200 Annex E; BS 8434-2; BS 6387 CWZ; and others based on IEC standards, and will shortly also encompass a BS EN 50399 3.5-metre-tall ladder rack rig for vertical fire tests on cables. The Milton Keynes headquarters also has a 3m 3 smoke chamber for smoke emission tests (EN 61034-2). BASEC – UK Website : www.basec.org.uk

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