Equipment

Our modern production mills: Man and machine in tune

Steel mill
Electric arc furnace	construction in 1999 Ccast weight approx. 80 t 75 MVA transformer 1 door burner computer-based process support and process tracking
Ladle furnace	modernization 2002 heating and treating positions wire coiling rinsing over bottom block computer-based process support and process tracking
vacuum machine	constructed in 2005 2 tanks with a single cover mechanical vacuum pumps 6-strand wire coiling machine computer-based process support and process tracking
Continuous casting machine	construction in 1998 / modernization 2007 4-strands, radius 8 m electromagnetic stirring in the mould and at the solidification point computer-based process support and process tracking
Rolling mill
Walking beam furnace	capacity 100 t/h = 65 billets/h natural gas heated heat recovery: 18% of the energy input drawing temperature 1125°C - 1230°C
Rolling mill	1 strand high capacity rolling mill intermediate cooling track (normalizing rolling) 3 product lines: Stelmor, Garrett, cooling bed average rolling capacity: 82 t/h
finishing train	5-stage 3-roll reducer and calibration block RSB (KOCKS2002) for round and hexagonal
Stelmor line	range of dimension: 5,5 mm - 22 mm rolling speed max. 85 m/sec.(=306 km/h) retarded cooling
Garrett line	range of dimension: 22.5 mm - 38 mm 2 alternating charged reelers entering speed max. 20 m/sec.
Cooling bed	dimension range: 15,7 mm - 64 mm coiling speed max. 14 m/sec. surface 78 m x 11,5 m
cross rolling straightening plant with periphery	2 cross-roller machines each with 4-6 t/h throughput 9 driven rolls max. bar length 12 m new periphery set up for up to 70 mm bar diameter
Surface-crack detector, switching and demagnetizing plant	alternating area stray flux method to detect surface defects
Ultrasonic testing	full volume testing using the latest "Phased Array" techniques, electronically shaped sound field