EuroWire September 2022

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Strengthening partnership in Japanese market lune CHF GmbH, a supplier of in-line and contact-free temperature measurement systems, and Unitek Japan KK are continuing their long-term partnership in Japan. and the Japanese market is a core part of the lune strategy.

Unitek Japan KK is a supplier to the Japanese cable and wire producing industry, and represents someof themajor European brands. It is headquartered in Osaka, with offices in Yokohama. Takuya Okamoto and Yuichiro Imato from Unitek met with Olaf Neuhausen, managing director of lune, at the wire 2022 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany. Mr Okamoto and Mr Neuhausen agreed on the common strategy for the coming years to continue and strengthen the joint support for the Japanese market. Mr Imato utilised his extended stay in Europe to gain further product and application expertise. lune CHF GmbH www.lune-chf.com Unitek Japan KK www.unitekjapan.co.jp

lune is a German manufacturer of devices to determine the temperature of wire, conductor, cable and other goods such as optical fibre in production processes. The systems are particularly suited to closed-loop control of preheaters and other temperature-sensitive production processes. The lune method is based on convective heat flow. It works without optics and does not have to deal with the difficulties and disadvantages from infrared temperature measurement. The method works on all blank metals, such as copper, aluminium and steel, and also on all polymers. All diameters from 75 micron are covered, and a high line speed of up to 2,500m/min is within the specification. Wafios AG Wafios will be exhibiting at the three forthcoming wire shows, in Shanghai, China; Bangkok, Thailand; and São Paulo, Brazil. At wire/Tube China, the company will present machines from its spring-end grinding, compression spring and tube bending programme. W1 D15

The lune management team has announced that the company’s long partnership with Unitek Japan KK will continue. Numerous cable and wire producers are headquartered in Japan, Takuya Okamoto and Olaf Neuhausen, managing directors of Unitek and lune, respectively, agreed on their continued partnership at wire 2022

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At wire South America and Tubotech, in the São Paulo Expo Exhibition & Convention Center in Brazil, Wafios will present machines from the compression spring and tube-bending programme. The company will also be present at wire Southeast Asia in Bangkok, Thailand.

Wafios FUL series CNC spring coiling machine

Wafios AG www.wafios.com

First bar rolled on new three-roll reducing and sizing block

rolling mill arrangement, and will produce bar in coil of Ø 16 to 48mm and straight bars within a range of Ø 20 to 90mm in an 800,000t/a mill line. The large-scale modernisation through a Chinese EPC contractor included other rolling mill equipment. In addition to the Kocks reducing and sizing block, the project included the supply of H/V stands, shears, a new bar in coil line with finishing facilities, and an upgrade of the inspection line. Electric and automation components have been modernised to ensure minimum downtime, maximum transparency and high efficiency. Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG www.kocks.de

Fujian Group (Sanming), a Chinese producer of special bar quality (SBQ) products, has Sangang Minguang

modernised its bar mill line, and rolled the first bar on its new Kocks three-roll reducing and sizing block. The RSB ® 370++/4 in 5.0 design is expected to improve the quality of Sanming’s SBQ products. enterprise, founded in 1958, is a major steel producer in the Fujian province on the southeastern coast of China. Around 11mn tons of steel roll off the mill every year. As part of a major modernisation project, the decision was made to invest in an upgrade of the existing mill, including the integration of a Kocks RSB. The commissioned RSB 370++/4 is located as finishing unit after 21 stands in H/V The government-owned

The commissioned RSB 370++/4 is producing bar in coil and straight bars

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