EoW September 2012

Focus on Germany

Special bar quality for automotive industry Chinese Zhangdiang Iron & Steel Works placed an order with German company Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG to revamp its existing bar mill. The target of this measure, by implementing the Kocks three-roll reducing and sizing block (RSB) as the essential part, is a production increase of round bars in special bar qualities for the automotive industry. Zhangdiang, a state-owned enterprise, was established in 1958 and was merged with Shandong Iron & Steel Group in 2008. It became the centre for the production of long products of the group. The company produces approximately 2.2 million tons per year of bar, wire rod and deformed bar with one bar mill and two wire rod mills.

three-roll stands. Besides the supervision of erection, the commissioning, and training of customer personnel, Kocks will bear the responsibility of engineering the thermo-mechanical rolling process. Delivery of the three-roll RSB is forecast for the third quarter of 2013. Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG – Germany Website : www.kocks.de Dow in Germany Dow Electrical & Telecommunications (Dow E&T), a business unit in the performance plastics division of The Dow Chemical Company, is a global provider of products, technology, solutions and knowledge for the transmission, distribution and consumption of power, voice and data. Dow E&T works together with cable makers, other industry suppliers, utilities, municipalities, testing institutes and diverse organisations to help develop

block will be operated as a finishing block in the 1,000,000t/a rolling mill downstream the existing 18-stand roughing and intermediate mill. The three-roll block is equipped with four stand positions and designed for controlled rolling at low temperatures. The heavy duty RSB rolls round bar in special bar qualities within the range 18 to 60mm Ø, in straight lengths onto the cooling bed. The RSB allows rolling out of only one pass series from the roughing and intermediate mill, so significantly reduces the number of required feeders. The RSB can produce any desired finished dimension of the complete dimensional range, in any desired sequence, with a minimum number of roll sets and just a few stand changes. The optimum adjustment values for motor speed, rolls and guides as well as gear steps are calculated by the BAMICON bar mill configuration system in relation to the final product. The scope of supply comprises the thee-roll reducing and sizing block with automatic quick stand changing system, roll shop with quick roll change, BAMICON mill configuration program, and CAPAS computer-aided system for accurate adjustment of rolls and guides of the

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