TPT May 2019

T UBE M I L L S & R OL L FORM I NG L I NE S

Complete tube mills for steel tube, strip and plate producer in Europe

plant in Boretto, Italy, and delivered to Hämeenlinna in 2019-2020. Fives is a long-term partner of SSAB, and was recently contracted to modernise the continuous annealing line in SSAB’s Borlänge plant in Sweden. As an industrial engineering group with a heritage of more than 200 years, Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for industrial customers in sectors such as steel, aerospace and special machining, aluminium, automotive and manufacturing industries. Its tube and pipe business line covers engineering, manufacturing, supply and installation of custom-engineered machines under the historical names of Abbey, Bronx, OTO and Taylor-Wilson.

SSAB Europe, a steel producer of strip, plate and tube products, has entrusted Fives, a global engineering group, with the design, production and supply of two complete OTO tube mill lines. Aiming to improve efficiency, SSAB Europe has been investing to modernise the tube production lines at its Hämeenlinna facility in Finland, to widen its product range and increase premium tubular output. Fives will design, manufacture, supply and commission two complete OTO tube mill lines for welded tubes ranging from 16 to 130mm in diameter. The mill lines will be designed to process high- grade yield carbon steel to produce tubes with 8mm maximum thickness for automotive applications. The scope of supply includes fully automatic entry lines, forming and sizing section with quick change, tools and cut-off units. Fives’ proposal featured technical

OTO tube mill

solutions and production flexibility to meet customised advanced technology equipment requirements, as well as tight scheduling. The OTO tube mill lines will be designed and preassembled at Fives’

Fives – France Fax: +33 1 4523 7571 Website: www.fivesgroup.com

New generation of professional Inverters MIG/MAG, MMA/TIG and Plasma capable of satisfying the most challenging users’ welding requirements. EVO line combines technological improvements both in Hardware and Software

Newest Microprocessor generation

Use of advanced control algorithms that guarantees high welding performance

Faster reaction to electric arc variation and condition

New welding arc dynamics with reduced spatter

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