WCA July 2016

Industry news

Hectic Asian order book ❍ Companies in China, Korea and Taiwan have boosted Kocks’ order book this year

and a 370++ RSB SCS ® of the latest design with six stand positions. Chinese company Yongxing Special Stainless Steel Co Ltd placed an order with Kocks for an RSB ® 370++/4 reducing and sizing block in SCS ® design. The private company, listed on the stock exchange, was established in 2000 by its parent company and two subsidiaries, Huzhou Yongxing Special Steel Imp and Exp Co Ltd, and Huzhou Yongxing Materials Recycling Co Ltd. It is one of the three leading Chinese stainless steel producers with a production of 250,000t/a. The 3-roll reducing and sizing block will be implemented in a new combined wire rod and bar mill producing high-quality stainless steel as well as nickel-based alloys. The Kocks block will be installed downstream of a reversing roughing mill and an intermediate continuous mill consisting of 14 HV-stands. Taiwan company Feng Hsin Steel Co Ltd has also signed a contract with Kocks for the delivery and

commissioning of an RSB SCS 370++/5 for its works in Taichung City. This RSB of the latest SCS generation will replace the existing Kocks precision sizing block operated by Feng Hsin since 1990. Besides the RSB SCS, the scope of supply comprises the engineering and process for a water cooling line for low temperature rolling, a snap shear and roller tables, as well as assembly and commissioning supervision. The contract is completed by the configuration program Bamicon, which calculates, based on the largest database of material characteristics, the optimum adjusting values for motor speeds, rolls and guides as well as the gear stage depending on the required end product; the quickest automatic stand changing system in the industry as well as the rollshop with quick roll change; and CAPAS, the computer-aided system to precisely adjust rolls and roller guides of 3-roll stands. Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG – Germany Website : www.kocks.de

IT has been a hectic few months for German wire rod and bar mill manufacturer Friedrich Kocks. Korean special steel producer SeAH Changwon Integrated Special Steel Corp chose the company, along with Morgårdshammar AB and AIC, for a modernisation project at its steel plant in Changwon. The SeAH group acquired SeAH Cangwon Integrated Special Steel Corp, formerly known as POSCO Specialty Steel and Sammy Steel, in March 2015. The company is Korea’s only domestic producer of stainless steel rods and wires made from high-quality special steel materials. With an annual steelmaking capacity reaching 1.2 million tons and one million tons of steel products, SeAH CSS is among the top ten producers of special steels. Two existing Kocks blocks – a precision sizing block (PSB) and a 370/10 3-roll intermediate block will be replaced by two 2-high HV stands, three loopers, a crop and cobble shear

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