TPT March 2021

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ESAB and Yaskawa sign global collaborative agreement for pre-engineered robotic tube welding cells development

THE ESAB Group Inc and robot and robot system company Yaskawa have signed a global co-operation agreement to jointly develop and market a line of pre-engineered robotic welding systems called XCellerator.

The XCellerator systems will be engineered and built by Yaskawa and marketed by ESAB through its global sales channels. Each company will contribute its expertise to create a product that is

Pre-engineered cells like XCellerator are one of the fastest, simplest paths toward automation. They improve productivity per worker by three to five times and offer a a healthy return on investment. Factory-built and tested, they help to take the risk out of robotic system investments. The cells especially appeal to small and medium-sized manufacturers and fabricators that value easy installation, set-up and operation, designed to enable them to take a confident step toward automating their welding operations. Yaskawa www.yaskawa.eu.com ESAB www.esab.com

greater than the sum of their individual contributions. In creating the XCellerator line of pre-engineered robotic welding cells, Yaskawa brings more than 30 years of experience producing robots, robotic controllers and robot cells. ESAB brings its expertise in welding processes, filler metals, equipment and automation together with its proprietary WeldCloud weld operations management infrastructure.

Pre-engineered robotic welding system XCellerator Severstal awards Danieli with order for new special steel rolling mill

RUSSIAN steelmaker AO Severstal has awarded Danieli with an order for the supply of a new rolling mill for special steels to be installed in Cerepovec. The new plant will produce 1 Mtpy of 5.5 to 32mm diameter smooth wirerod and coiled bars for the engineering and automotive industries and 8 to 16mm diameter quenched rebar for construction purposes. Danieli will provide all the technological equipment, automation and advisory services and a Danieli Centro Combustion walking beam reheating furnace will bring to rolling temperature 12m long, 150mm square- billets, at a pace of 170tph. A single- strand high-speed roughing mill made of horizontal and vertical housingless stands will feed two independent wirerod lines and a garret coiler to produce the bigger diameters. The intermediate mill is composed by horizontal housingless stands while

the finishing stand group consists of cantilever stands and two separate fast- finishing blocks (six plus four passes) in order to achieve better macrostructure. Two oil-film bearing laying heads will lay wraps on a 100m cooling conveyor designed for sorbitesed process. All coils will be processed along a Sundbirsta vertical trestle system and the entire mill will be powered by

Danieli Automation electrical motors and drives, and controlled by L1, L2 and Q3 technologies. The mill start-up is planned within end of 2022. Severstal www.severstal.com Danieli www.danieli.com

The new rolling mill for Severstal in Russia

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