TPT March 2014

Industry News

New distributors FUSION equipment specialist McElroy Manufacturing, USA, has added three new distributors that will serve domestic and international customers. The new distributors are R&B Company, San Jose, California, USA; Miami International Machinery and Equipment Corp (Mimeco), Medley, Florida, USA; and SOFIPO, Moscow, Russia. SOFIPO is a spin-off of PALECO, a Russian company that provides a full range of pipe clamps and electrofusion products manufactured in the UK, and will now be a supplier of McElroy’s butt fusion equipment. HAPL delivered to Chinese steelmaker FIVES has signed off on an annealing and pickling line for hot-rolled stainless steel strips (HAPL) for the steelmaker South West Stainless Steel (SWSS). Fives designed the entire processing line, which combines a wide range of technologies the group has developed for the steel sector, including thermal, mechanical and chemical capacities. The annealing and pickling line has an annual capacity of 700,000 metric tons of hot-rolled stainless steel strips. In order to achieve the required quality level, Fives supplied high-precision equipment that enables steelmakers to manufacture a finished product that meets their quality and performance objectives. With a capacity of 128 tons/hr, the furnace can heat stainless steel strips (from 2 to 6mm thick and from 900 to 1,350mm wide – austenitics series 200 and 300) to 1,150°C at process speeds of 80m/min. It combines a water cooling section with a soft cooling section to secure the cooling control and excellent strip flatness. The technologies in this section optimise and reduce the furnace’s energy consumption. The pickling section includes a design that integrates the latest materials and automatic features to efficiently and effectively remove the sludge from the system while maintaining the optimum concentration of chemicals. This is combined with a system that minimises the water consumption by utilising the spent water from various sub-systems as the feed makeup water in others, minimising the flow sent to the waste water treatment facility. The project was carried out over 17 months, from signing the contract to the first coil. The line reached its 500t annealed and pickled coil in the second week of production, and is currently producing more than 2,700 coils per month. Fives – France Fax: +33 1 45 23 75 71 Email: contact@fivesgroup.com Website: www.fivesgroup.com

McElroy – USA Website: www.mcelroy.com

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