WCA May 2014

Industry news

South-east Asia’s longest undersea cable

three 630mm² 110kV copper, single wire armoured XLPE insulated submarine cables, installed by the Prysmian cable laying vessel ‘ Cable Enterprise ’. Prysmian completed the project ahead of schedule, after only two months, and just in time to begin operation on the occasion of the 2014 Lunar New Year holiday. The inauguration ceremony for the interconnection took place on 6 th February and was attended by Vietnamese prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung; standing secretary of secretariat of the central committee of the communist party of Vietnam, Lê Hong Anh; politicians and dignitaries from the central Hanoi government; and the Italian

Prysmian Group has completed operations for the construction and execution of a submarine power cable link to connect Phu Quoc Island to the national power grid in Vietnam. Phu Quoc Island is situated 45km west of Ha Tien town, Kien Giang province in southern Vietnam. The submarine cable link will play a major role in the province’s 2020 socio-economic development plan aimed at making Phu Quoc Island into a special administrative-economic zone by the end of the decade. The Phu Quoc link is the first submarine power cable link installed by a utility company in Vietnam, and at 56km is south-east Asia’s longest undersea cable system. The Phu Quoc cable connection comprises

Desmond’s new role

❍ Desmond Goh

Beta LaserMike has appointed Desmond Goh as channel manager for Asia. This new appointment enhances the company’s go-to-market approach to drive alignment and optimisation across all partner segments in the Southeast Asia region. In his new role, Mr Goh will be responsible for managing and expanding sales channel operations for Beta LaserMike’s portfolio of measurement and control solutions. His key focus is on strategically driving sales and increasing revenues by identifying new opportunities and building on existing relationships with customers and channel partners. Beta LaserMike – USA Website : www. betalasermike. com

ambassador to Vietnam. Prysmian Group – Italy Website : www.prysmiangroup.com

New mill for Chinese steel company

It simulates the temperature development of the rolled product, calculates the quality and quantity of the micro-structural development and predicts the mechanical properties of the rolled cross-sections. The scope of supply also includes the quick automatic stand change system, the stand and roll workshop with quick roll change; CAPAS, the computer-aided system for precise adjustment of rolls and guides in the stand; and the remote control of passes and guides of the three-roll stands in the mill line. The total package is completed by supervision of assembly, commissioning and training of the customer’s personnel. The Kocks three-roll reducing and sizing block will enable Beiman to produce high- quality bars trouble-free and economically, which is esp- ecially requested by the continuously growing auto- motive industry in China; thus strengthening and expanding its own market position. Beiman Special Steel Co Ltd – China Website : www.dtgroup.com

block in the existing bar mill downstream of the two-high roughing and intermediate mill consisting of 20 stands. The three-roll block is able to roll any finished size of the whole product range as a straight length onto the cooling bed out of a few entry cross-sections from the roughing and intermediate mill. The rolling configuration program Bamicon calculates optimum adjusting values for motor speed, rolls and guides as well as gear stages depending on the requested finished product. The LTR process with closed-loop control and corresponding equipment for the whole mill line is also included in the order. Kocks is in charge for the process know-how as well as for engineering and hardware. For the first time, the Kocks Microstructure Simulator (KMS) will be applied as a supplement to the LTR process. Kocks developed KMS as a new software program for the process simulation in long product mills, particularly for the three-roll technology.

BEIMAN Special Steel Co, part of the Dongbei Special Steel Group, has concluded a contract with German company Friedrich Kocks for the delivery, assembly and commissioning of a reducing and sizing block (RSB) combined with the equipment and processes for tempera- ture-controlled rolling (LTR). After positive results and experiences with the operation of the three-roll RSB in the combined wire rod and bar mill at Dalian Special Steel, another company belonging to Dongbei, the group decided to expand and modernise its bar mill by implementing the three-roll RSB technology of the independent family-owned company in Hilden for reasons of trouble-free operation and quality improvement. After having completed the modernisation, the mill will produce 504,000 t/a bars in SBQ-quality within the dimension range of 16 to 100mm diameter. The new heavy-duty 370mm reducing and sizing block will be equipped with four stand positions, and is designed for temperature controlled rolling at low temperatures. The RSB will be operated as finishing

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Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2014