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Commissioning at Chinese greenfield rolling mill

software and hardware features that assist operators in the stand and guide preparation and support the entire tooling process in the roll shop. Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG www.kocks.de

scope of supply included the remote control for stands and guides, which allows operational parameters to be adjusted from the control stand. In addition to the roll shop equipment, Kocks installed the Bamicon Octopus

Chinese Chengde Jianlong Iron & Steel Co Ltd has successfully rolled the first bar on its Kocks Reducing & Sizing Block for large bar dimensions in its advanced greenfield medium bar mill line. The project follows a previous finishing block installation with Kocks several years ago. In 2017, Chengde Jianlong modernised its small bar mill SBQ line with a Kocks RSB® 370++/4 in 5.0 design, which resulted in an improvement in product quality and mill output. For the current project, the steel producer again relied on Kocks’s portfolio for producing speciality steels. In the newly built 1,000,000 t/a rolling mill for larger dimensions, an RSB 500++/4 in StarDrive design has now been successfully commissioned. Straight after rolling the first bar, the four-stand finishing block started regular production. The RSB 500++ rolls straight bars with a diameter of 60 to 160mm onto the cooling bed. This largest reducing and sizing block is in the advanced RSB design. The further steel producer

The first bar has been rolled on Kocks’s largest RSB

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