wiredInUSA January 2019

Cable ship starts work

Rebar rolling

Image: DEME

Fuzhou Wuhang, China, has placed an order with SMS group to upgrade its existing mill with SMS TMbaR technology for thermo-mechanical rolling of rebar. This is the third order for a TMbaR mill in China within a year, following orders from Yancheng Lianxin Steel and Laigang Yongfeng Steel. Fuzhou Wuhang, located in the Changle district of Fuzhou, produces structural steel products, and has an annual capacity of around two million tons. The new line is designed for an annual production of 700,000 tons of rebar in diameters of between 10mm and 18mm, at a maximum rolling speed of 45m per second. It can produce rounds of between 14mm and 20mm. SMS group will supply all key equipment including the electrics and the automation package. The plant is scheduled to be in production by mid- 2019. Technological highlights of the contract include loop technology that achieves an ideal temperature across the feeder section within an optimized mill bay length, and the SMS group’s MEERdrive ® finishing blocks. The robust cartridge-type design provides high performance with minimal maintenance requirements.

DEME group’s new cable laying vessel, Living Stone , has begun an offshore wind assignment at the Hornsea Project One wind farm, 120km off the North Sea coast of the UK. Tideway, part of DEME Group, is responsible for laying export cables to the shore from three different offshore substations, and for installing two interlink cables. Tideway is also tasked with boulder removal, pre-trenching, cable pull-in to the substations, crossing installation and cable burial. After the Hornsea Project One installation, Living Stone will continue with cable installation work for Elia’s modular offshore grid (MOG) project. The 160m Living Stone is designed to lay deep-sea cables linking offshore wind farms with the mainland. The vessel is also equipped for the positioning of rocks using a vertical fall pipe system that can reach depths of up to 1,000m. Additional features include a cable capacity of over 10,000 tonnes, an in-house designed cable laying system, dual-fuel (MGO-LNG) engines, and a DP3 system. The cable laying system, designed by Tideway and built at Reimerswaal shipyard, has two cableways – one to lay the cable, and another on which the next cable can be prepared at the same time.

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