EOW March 2014

Corporatenews

▲ ▲ The bar mill number one at China Steel Corporation’s plant in Taiwan

Kocks gets the order to boost production and quality

Besides the reducing and sizing block with quick automatic stand changing system, the order contains the stand and roll shop with quick roll change; Capas, the computer-aided system for precise adjustment of roll and guides in the stand; and the configuration program Bamicon. The scope of supply also includes the complete LTR-process with process know-how and hardware engineering. The supply package is completed by assembly supervision, commissioning and training of the customer’s personnel. Delivery of the equipment is planned for the third quarter of 2014. Friedrich Kocks GmbH – Germany Website : www.kocks.de

machine was recently revamped with the addition of heavy duty stands. In a bay in the immediate vicinity, bar mill number two is situated where the new heavy duty RSB is used as finishing block. The RSB will be equipped with five stands with a nominal roll diameter of 300mm for rolling at low temperatures. The three-roll block produces all SBQ grades (special bar quality) in coils within the dimensional range of 17 to 55mm diameter out of only four entry cross-sections coming from the roughing and intermediate mill. In addition, the configuration program Bamicon calculates the optimum adjusting values for motor speed, rolls and guides, as well as the gear stages depending on the requested finished product.

Steel producer China Steel Corporation (CSC), the largest in Taiwan with an annual production of more than ten million tons of crude steel, has placed an order for the delivery of a three-roll reducing and sizing block (RSB) and additionally the process and equipment for temperature- controlled rolling (LTR) with Friedrich Kocks in Hilden, Germany. The objective of this order is to increase the productivity and product quality of bar mill number two. The decision in favour of the RSB in heavy duty design was made on the basis of the positive experience gathered with regard to the operational reliability of the equipment already delivered by Kocks and the excellent quality of the finished products. In 2001, the first three-roll reducing and sizing block in C-module design was installed in bar mill number one. This

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