LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH

Five-strand billet caster
The casting machine has five strands with a
casting radius of 10.25 m. An expansion to six
strands has been considered in the layout. The
range of dimensions comprises square billets
in the formats of 130, 150, 160 and 200 mm. The
special equipment includes among others the
Invex® mold tube technology for high-speed
casting and the hydraulic mold oscillation systems.
The casting machine is able cast billets in
various sizes in a parallel mode.
Rebar mill for bars with diameters
from 10 to 43 mm
In front of the rebar mill the billets are heated to
an uniform temperature by the inductive heating
plant, if necessary. The downstream rolling
mill includes 14 mill stands in horizontal/vertical
and tiltable configuration. A compact design
of the ”HL” stands ensures that close tolerances
of the finished products are maintained. Bars
with small diameters are finish-rolled in two finish-rolling
blocks with six rolling units in V
arrangement.
Straight bars are transported with up to 40 m/s
to the cooling bed by the H.S.D.® (High-Speed
Delivery) system. Then they pass through the
finishing facilities.
The roughing train of the rolling mill.
Induction heating section.
The minimill is designed for 800,000 tpy of rebars.
Newsletter 1/2011
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