TPI November 2020

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Marcegaglia among the 2020 Global Awards for Steel Excellence winners after R&D focus

The Marcegaglia group has won the award for ‘Best Operational Improvements’ and ‘Information Technology Services’ at the ‘2020 Global Awards for Steel Excellence’.

The Industrial Group in Steel Transformation was nominated for five awards at the award ceremony, which took place in July 2020, however the annual dinner was not hosted this year

was created to improve product quality and process efficiency. Tensil Pro is applied to all metallic materials, all magnetic and non-magnetic steels, to aluminium or copper alloys, starting from the hot rolling process. Smart Line, on the other hand, was born from the collaboration between Marcegaglia and Fives, from the combination of Tensil Pro and Fives’ great experience in industrial automation. Smart Line integrates all the coil transformation production processes starting from hot rolling up to the finished product. Tensil Pro and Smart Line allow the user to improve production costs thanks to energy saving and productivity increase, to obtain a greater homogeneity of mechanical characteristics (in particular for the automotive sector), to study quality and process trends as they vary of the input material (to alleviate the differences between the different supplies, steel makers). Marcegaglia www.marcegaglia.com

due to COVID-19. The virtual ceremony can be watched online. Marcegaglia Group said: “These awards are the result of the strategic role that research and development has taken on in the Marcegaglia Group in recent years, focused on the continuous improvement of processes and the development of innovative solutions. For five years, an R&D structure has been implemented in the Ravenna plant, based on skills from bodies of excellence, which supports process engineering for the improvement of the production area and researches product solutions customised to customer needs.” Tensil Pro is an online detection system for the mechanical characteristics of materials. It

The awards are the result of many years of investment in R&D

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