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Danieli received the final acceptance from Turkish steelmaker Atakas for six bell annealing furnaces. The supply consisted of the addition of six new bases (three furnace bells and three cooling bells) to the existing BAF eight-base line installed and started-up by Danieli in 2018. The upgraded facility is now capable of processing prime-quality annealed sheet products of cold-rolled carbon steel for the automotive market. The maximum diameter of coils is 2,000 mm (78.7 inches), with strip thickness ranging from 0.3 up to 2.0 mm.
More information 2020-04-08The company typically manufactures between one-and-two thousand counterweights each year for GE Medical. Kirsh is now taking measures to ramp up production to at least twice that, for just their first order. “They’re not sure of how many actual ventilators they’re going to need,” he says, “so there’s a sense of urgency not only for how much capacity we have – of which we have plenty to fill their needs – but also how quickly can we get these castings made, get them painted and get them into the receiving docks at GE so that they can get them into completed units.”
More information 2020-04-08SMS group has successfully modernized the edger main drive of the 88-inch hot wide-strip mill No. 2 at Tata Steel IJmuiden in the Netherlands. The new edger drive is more maintenance-friendly and allows the transmission of much higher torques.
More information 2020-04-08TMK-ARTROM is a leading European pipe manufacturer based in the south of Romania. The production is focused on thick-wall seamless steel pipes, mainly for the machine tool and oil and gas industries.
More information 2020-03-31Two metal giants —JSW Steel and Hindalco — have decided to scale down operations in some of their plants and suspend altogether in certain others following the 21-day lockdown announced in India.
More information 2020-03-29As of Tuesday afternoon, out of 44 automotive OEM manufacturing facilities in the U.S., two remained open. Every OEM plant in Canada is shut down. Overall, North American automobile manufacturing capacity is down more than 87 percent this week.
More information 2020-03-29For the Austrian company ELB-Form, a simple order for a new machine from Schwarze-Robitec ended in a huge increase in productivity and efficiency. The fully electric multi-radius tube bending machine CNC 80 E TB MR is ensuring extremely short cycle times for the experts for cold and hot forming. The key to this productivity gain is Schwarze-Robitec’s intelligent NxG control system. Production time is reduced by 20 to 40 percent depending on the component and the desired tube geometry.
More information 2020-03-29Al Gharbia Pipe Company has successfully taken into operation its new LSAW (Longitudinal Submerged Arc Welded) pipe plant. The new LSAW large-diameter pipe production facility was built at the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), by a consortium of Larsen & Toubro Limited and SMS group as the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) partner.
More information 2020-03-28Tata Steel India has awarded SMS group the order to supply a slab conditioning line (scarfing line) for its Kalinganagar works. SMS group will supply the complete mechanical and electrical equipment of the slab conditioning line, including slab handling equipment and a fume extraction system that incorporates a wet electrostatic precipitator. Commissioning of the slab conditioning line is scheduled for the first quarter of 2021.
More information 2020-03-20“A containership showed up at the Port of Los Angeles [on March 9]. You would think this would be a nonevent at the Port of Los Angeles, except this containership was the first to show up from China in almost 10 days. It was sort of like the Navy coming into an 18th century port, and boy, people were excited.”
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