Fleet and equipment owners continue to face the pressure of doing more with less. To this end, SSAB has created a new addition to the 1100 MPa range of Strenx® performance steels.
KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH is extending the Neckarsulm production capacities with a new 5,000 square meter production shop for structural parts in aluminum.
Sichuan Liuhe Forging Co., Ltd., based in Jiangyou in the province of Sichuan, China, has placed an order with SMS group to supply a high-speed, 50/55 MN open-die forging press.
Stahlwerk Thüringen GmbH, a company of Brazilian Grupo CSN, has awarded SMS group the order to supply a new CCS® (Compact Cartridge Stand) universal stand U1 for its section mill in Unterwellenborn, Germany.
Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (NYS) has selected SMS group for the replacement and upgrade of rolling equipment at their heavy section mill in Blytheville, Arkansas, USA. NYS is comprised of two rolling facilities commonly referred to as Mill 1 and Mill 2, capable of producing an annual capacity of 2.4 million tons of finished product.
Musashi Europe has placed an order with SMS group for the delivery of a 5,000-ton eccentric forging press, type MT 5000, for its plant in Bockenau, Germany. Commissioning of the new MT 5000 closed-die forging press is scheduled for Q4 2019.
After the startup of the pickling, galvanizing, batch annealing lines and temper mill, Danieli and Yildiz Lar technical teams performed an impressive startup of the cold tandem mill which is part of the new complex in Izmit (Kocaeli).
Nanjing Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese steel producer with approximately ten million tons of steel produced per annum, has awarded SMS Concast AG an order to upgrade the four strands of continuous caster CCM4 at its Nanjing plant No. 2.
For more than fifty years the Leroy-Somer foundry has been designing and producing grey and spheroidal graphite cast-iron components in short, medium and long production runs.
Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., China, has placed an order with SMS group to supply new SMS group ConSo R6 injectors for the electric arc furnace No. 3 in Luhe, Nanjing. Erection and commissioning of the equipment are scheduled for 2019.
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Russia, has placed an order with MET/Con, an SMS group company, for the implementation of the quality management system PQA® (Product Quality Analyzer).
A shared victory between Fraunhofer Institute IPM from Germany and Luleå University of Technology from Sweden, who both came up with ideas on how to trace steel products by using the materials own characteristics. That was the result of the SmartSteel Innovation Challenge 2018.
