Profiling aluminum vacuum brazing furnaces
Fluke Process Instruments provides a dedicated temperature profiler for aluminum vacuum brazing furnaces. The Datapaq Furnace Tracker system automatically generates CQI-9 and AMS 2750E reports.
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Daehan Sinpyeong upgrades rolling mill with new quenching and HSD® lines
South-Korean Daehan Steel Co. Ltd. is modernizing a bar mill . The rolling mill in Daehan´s Sinpyeong works located in the Busan area is designed to produce 130 tons per hour of rebar in diameters from 16 to 32 millimeters up to grade SD 500.
heimatec will be presenting a completely new trade fair concept in Hall 3 at Stand 3A50
The AMB is one of the top international trade fairs for metalworking. heimatec, as one of the technology and quality leaders for high-precision static and driven precision tools for lathes and machining centres, will be presenting the latest products and technologies for productive turning and milling at this important industry meeting. heimatec will be presenting a completely new trade fair concept in Hall 3 at Stand 3A50.
Hertwich to supply multi-chamber melting furnace to Hydro Extrusion Lichtervelde NV
Hertwich Engineering has received an order from Hydro Extrusion Lichtervelde NV for the supply of an Ecomelt-PS200 multi-chamber melting furnace including a skimming machine.
thyssenkrupp Materials Services to invest 60 million euros in new logistics center in Rotenburg
On September 11, 2018 thyssenkrupp Schulte, a company of thyssenkrupp Materials Services, and the town of Rotenburg/Wümme (Lower Saxony) signed a purchase agreement for a 100,000 square meter plus industrial site.
First combined rolling mill in Africa
Prometal Aciérie, Cameroon, Africa, has awarded SMS group the order to supply a new hot rolling mill for rebars, sections and wire rod.
Industry 4.0: Condition-based maintenance using a cloud-based monitoring system for old and new hardening furnaces prevents plant failures and increases availability
Industrial furnaces in hardening processes usually need to stay functional for up to 30 years. Due to the high stress in the furnace, many system components - such as fan blades or pumps - can wear out and fail unexpectedly, which leads to unplanned downtimes of the systems.
40-year-old cold rolling mill with higher performance after revamp to the latest state of the art
After successful modernization of the 40-year-old aluminum cold rolling mill at the Slovenska Bistrica facility, the Slovenian aluminum producer Impol Group Slovenia has awarded the final acceptance to SMS group. The previously performed acceptance tests had proven that the rolled products are now fulfilling even stricter quality criteria.
EuroBLECH 2018 rewards 5 businesses in this year’s “Step into the digital reality” online competition
EuroBLECH is the world’s leading exhibition for the sheet metal working industry and takes place 23 – 26 October 2018 in Hanover, Germany.
Tantalum 2018 conference to feature expert panel on ethical sourcing strategies
Ethical sourcing of minerals has been under the spotlight for some time, following greater awareness of "conflict minerals" supply from politically unstable areas, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The term includes the trade of minerals used to finance armed groups, support corruption and money laundering, and support forced and child labour, among other issues.
Aperam orders annealing and pickling line for stainless steel cold strip from SMS group
Aperam Stainless Belgium has contracted SMS group to supply an annealing and pickling line for stainless steel cold strip to its Genk plant in Belgium. Production start is scheduled for 2020.
Reduced future effort for maintenance and repair in tube production
Železiarne Podbrezová has placed an order with SMS group covering the upgrade of its existing pushbench plant in Podbrezová, Slovakia. On this push bench, Železiarne Podbrezová produces seamless tubes in the diameter range from 0.5 inch to 5.5 inches. The modernization order covers two new racks with drive pinions and a new rack guide bed for the push bench as well as 14 new stands for the stretch reducing mill.