WCA September 2022

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Condat SA Condat’s lubricants range offers a wide choice of soaps, surface treatment products and neat and soluble oils. Because each wire drawing plant is different, the company’s experts develop lubricants for specific needs and guide customers to the best lubrication strategy. For wire drawing, Condat offers 40 eco designed lubricants rated through its self scoring Lubriscore ® programme. Particular attention is paid to the raw materials used in formulas, which limit as much as possible the use of hazardous ingredients. Condat gives technical guidelines for the selection and use of the most suitable dry drawing lubricants. The company’s team Cimteq Ltd Established 1998, Cimteq provides software for the global wire and cable manufacturing industry. Its products and support services enable manufacturers around the world to improve product quality, reduce wastage and streamline business and manufacturing processes. CableBuilder Enterprise software pro vides engineers and designers with the flexibility and power to have full control of the complex management of cable production. The system speeds up the design and quotation process and pro vides accurate costing during the de sign phase. Customised reports can be created for specific business needs. Scrap is reduced and human error is eliminated, enabling businesses to make

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Condat borax-free lubricant

can address subjects such as reducing total wire-drawing costs, reducing the amount of dust generated in the work shop, improving productivity or getting the most out of pre-coatings. For example, Condat can help manage lubricant residuals on drawn wire. Excessive residue can cause problems in the process and is also an indication of lubricant overconsumption, while too little residue can lead to premature die wear. The quantity of residue can be adjusted by varying a number of parameters. These include the type of dry lubricant used during the wire drawing operation – fat type, grain size distribution, softening point and type of filler; and the die type and profile, as the angle and bearing can affect residuals. cost savings. Central control of designs and design knowledge is another key benefit, helping manufacturers move away from traditional spreadsheets and home-grown databases. The seamless distribution of designs from CableBuilder Enterprise to other systems, including ERP and MES, and across multiple plants make the software suitable for multi-site wire and cable manufacturers. CableBuilder Go is cloud-hosted soft- ware for smaller, single-factory man- facturers to design, cost and quote wire and cables of all types. It allows clients to react quickly to customer demands, and to control and optimise material and production costs, protect

activities were focused on stabilising the slow line. AIC is a system integrator that designs, manufactures and commissions turnkey plants worldwide, providing advanced and tailored automation and mechatronics solutions for the steel industry, with the aim of improving efficiency, competitiveness and safety of the production processes. With more than 45 years of history, the company has experience in both greenfield and revamping projects, especially in meltshops and long-product rolling mills. Automazioni Industriali Capitanio www.aicnet.it CableMES (manufacturing execution sys tem) allows accurate material manage ment, quality control processes, product performance and seamless order execu tion. Human errors are eliminated, and non-conformance issues and machine breakages are flagged in real-time via alarms, ensuring waste is kept to a mini mum and variables of manufacturing are removed. Cimteq Ltd www.cimteq.com financial margins and avoid over-pricing or under-pricing products. Users can produce professional and accurate customer quotations, reduce rework and scrap, and access product information on-demand from anywhere in the world. The company produces lubricants on four continents. Already present in China with a local production unit in Shanghai, Condat is also expanding with a new plant in Qingdao, due to start production by the end of the year. The new plant will allow increased production using the latest equipment and quality management. With local storage facilities, Condat promptly delivers products to any location. Condat SA www.condat.fr

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Greenfield high-performance project for steel mill AIC has commissioned a greenfield 350,000 tpa rolling mill for Suryadev Alloys and Power Ltd (SAP), one of the largest steel manufacturers based in India. automation system – RACS – engineered and supplied by AIC India (Bangalore), ensuring full process control and minimising manual intervention.

The first material in the cooling bed was tested at the end of 2021, and early

The new high-speed mill will produce 8 to 40mm rebar at a maximum rated speed of 28m/s, applying single-slit rolling. The mill is equipped with quenching and tempering systems, and discharges with high-speed twin channel systems. AIC has rolled all of the sections successfully, and trials are underway to take the mill up to the rated maximum speed. The entire mill is automatically controlled by an Industry-4.0-compliant

The main control area for full process control

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