TPT March 2019

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Bronx tube straighteners to be installed at China’s Baoshan and Jiuli

and energy department at Baoshan Iron and Steel. In addition, Zhejiang Jiuli Hi-Tech Metals has entrusted Fives to design and supply two Bronx straightening machines for its Huzhou facility based in the eastern province of China. Jiuli is a private company specialising in the manufacture of stainless and high alloy piping and tubular products for a number of different industries. The company has ordered a Bronx six-roll and ten-roll machine to pro- cess high-yield, seamless, thick-walled, large-diameter tubular products. The equipment is designed using advanced technologies to withstand thick-walled stainless tube processing and deliver high levels of productivity and excellent standards of straightness. It will be delivered to China in July for installation and commissioning in Huzhou. “It’s our latest order of a Bronx machine during a succesful ten-year working relationship,” said Denny Lee (Zhengzhou Li), president of Zhejiang Jiuli Hi-Tech Metals. “Fives always stays on the top of its contractual commitments, delivering Bronx machines with outstanding pro- duction rates, longevity and excellent standards of straightening accuracy.” For both customers the Bronx six- roll straighteners ordered will be fully automatic and motorised, utilising the COMPASS system (COMPuter Aided Setting System) for automatic precision setting of all work rolls. All of the equipment is designed and pre-assembled in the UK, where the group has been designing and manufacturing Bronx straightening machines for tubular and long products for more than 76 years.

to straighten high-yield and thick-walled seamless tube and pipe products up to 197mm in diameter. The Bronx machine is capable of processing both plain and upset pipes due to its advanced technical features. The equipment will be put into production in China in November 2019. “We are very satisfied with the Bronx machines. They feature an outstanding production rate, longevity and excellent standards of straightening accuracy,” said Cai Fangwei, deputy general manager of the tube, pipe and bar business unit and director of equipment

BAOSHAN Iron and Steel Co, a subsidiary of China Baowu Steel Group, has again contracted Fives, a global industrial engineering group, to supply a customised Bronx straightener for its seamless mill in Shanghai. The new Bronx hot pipe straightening machine will replace the old straightener that was supplied in 1992. It will be the 13 th straightener ordered by Baoshan from Fives in a long- standing relationship of more than 30 years. The new six-roll machine is designed

Bronx has cooperated with Baoshan in the past

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