TPT November 2013

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Fives introduces steel offer at Galvatech

At its booth, Fives also presented its complete steel offer – machinery, full lines and expertise – that stretches from the reheating furnace to the finishing equipment for all types of steel. More than 1,000 Fives employees around the world are employed in order to meet the demands of steel giants and provide them with innovative, performance-enhancing solutions and equipment. Alongside the event, Fives will be hosting a technical seminar for its customers in order to help showcase its know-how and latest innovations, specifically on line integration, combustion systems, cooling technologies and automotive certification for steel. Fives – USA Email: fivesbronx-sales@fivesgroup.com Website: www.fivesgroup.com

sections and guarantee high-quality steel. KEODS, which joined Fives in late 2012, is a company that specialises in advanced steel industry consulting to improve the quality of flat carbon steel products. The skill set KEODS provides has enhanced Fives’ steel offer and supplied unique recognised expertise in the steel industry, specifically in carbon flat products for the automotive sector. KEODS’ expertise lies essentially in its extensive knowledge of the steelmaking process, which forms the basis of its consultancy services on the upstream side of the production process (in the line start-up phase) and the downstream side (through operation support). It also uses proprietary steelmaking process management and steel coil production management software.

FIVES has attended the 9 th Galvatech Trade Show in Beijing. Both a world- class trade show and conference cycle, it attracts the biggest names in the steel industry. This year’s edition coincided with the second 2013 APGalva, an event focused on galvanising in the Asia- Pacific region. Galvatech brings to light all the latest technologies and advances in the sheet steel sector, including both production and applications. Galvatech conferences feature presentations by experts and appearances by industry leaders, making it a genuine forum for trading information on galvanising techniques. At this year’s event, Fives, through a KEODS representative, presented an article on the techniques, methods and tools used to efficiently and reliably produce steel parts for exposed

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