STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 01/2020 EXTRACT
STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 01/2020 EXTRACT
STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 01/2020 EXTRACT
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12 | NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
BRAZIL<br />
Gerdau and SKF establish partnership to improve mill productivity<br />
Gerdau and SKF have signed an agreement<br />
aimed at increasing productivity<br />
and reducing unplanned downtime at<br />
Gerdau’s Charqueadas and Araçariguama<br />
steel mills.<br />
The fee-based agreement will see SKF<br />
provide a full range of products, including<br />
bearings, remanufacturing, lubrication systems<br />
and connected condition monitoring<br />
units. Data from critical machinery at the<br />
two steel mills will be analyzed at SKF’s<br />
Rotating Equipment Performance Center<br />
in Brazil. Based on this analysis, SKF and<br />
Gerdau can plan maintenance and corrective<br />
actions, improving machine reliability<br />
and performance.<br />
Claudinei Reche, president, SKF Latin<br />
America, says: “By offering customers in<br />
the steel industry the opportunity to work<br />
with us on a fee-basis, we give them<br />
access to our full competence around the<br />
rotating shaft, in order to help them<br />
improve their output and reduce their consumption<br />
of bearings, grease and energy.”<br />
• SKF<br />
Condition monitoring of rotating shafts in steel mills is just one of numerous measures<br />
aimed at improving mill performance (Picture: SKF)<br />
CANADA<br />
Algoma Steel to modernize wide plate mill<br />
Danieli is going to upgrade the 4,200 mm<br />
wide plate mill of Algoma Steel in Sault<br />
Ste. Maire, Ontario.<br />
The project will allow Algoma to expand its<br />
product portfolio to include wider plate<br />
products, to better control shape and surface<br />
quality and to improve logistics – making<br />
it possible to offer enhanced on-time<br />
shipment performance. The plant will be<br />
completely re-automated by Danieli Automation<br />
from Level 0 through to Level 2.<br />
Along with new process equipment and<br />
new digital drives, this will allow Algoma<br />
to perform normalized - or controlled - rolling,<br />
so that it can supply new grades of<br />
plate to the shipbuilding, energy and bridge<br />
building sectors. Danieli Taranis will provide<br />
engineering and post-commissioning<br />
support.<br />
Danieli’s scope of work will include an<br />
overhaul of the complete plant automation<br />
The upgrade of the wide plate mill will allow Algoma to add new grades to its portfolio<br />
(Picture: Danieli)<br />
<strong>STEEL</strong> + <strong>TECHNOLOGY</strong> 2 (<strong>2020</strong>) No. 1
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