South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute
Revamping of Reheating Furnaces
by Massimiliano Fantuzzi, Enrico Castellano
The world scenario of the reheating furnaces is characterized by a considerable number of plants erected in 70s and 80s and 90s of the past century still in operation today. Such furnaces, despite the ...
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Revamping Results of a Wire Rod and Bar Mill for Value Added Products
by Stefan Schwarz, Günther Schnell, Dr. Georg Nussbaum, Dr. W.-Jürgen Ammerling
The company SWISS STEEL AG, Emmenbrücke / Swiss – the competence center for the manufacturing and processing of high-grade, special and free-cutting steel within the SCHMOLZ & BICKENBACH GROUP – ...
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Reversing Cold Mill Concepts for Emerging Markets
by Falk Töpfer, Rüdiger Holz, Karl Hoen
In recent years, the steel market has been dominated by the enormous growth of countries like China and India. Almost unnoticed, new players have entered the stage, just in the neighbourhood of these ...
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Reversing Cold Mills (RCM) - Flexible Approach to Fulfil Today and Future Market Demands
by Jürgen Schanderl, Rüdiger Holz, Karl Hoen
The cold rolling sector in South East Asia as well as in India and its neighbouring countries requires flexible mill solutions. Therefore the favoured mill concept is the reversing cold mill (RCM). Th ...
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Roll Shop 4.0 : Increased Productivity, Availability & Efficiency Thanks To "Industry 4.0" at the Roll Shop
by Mike Nitschke
"The vision of Industry 4.0 prominently features the “smart factory” in which
interconnected production machinery and logistics systems communicate with each
other to form an “intelligent” ...
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Roll Shop Auxiliaries and Complete Roll Shops
by DAVIDE QUAGLIA & GIOVANNI BOSELLI
In the past, steel manufacturers often designed roll shops purchasing the pieces from individual suppliers and integrating them, or living with the lack of integration. Today steel manufacturers tend ...
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Roll Texturing by Electrical Discharge Texturing Machines “EDT“ Latest Development for Lower Production Output
by "Mike Nitschke, Stefan Tschersche"
"Automobile manufacturers demand a certain surface roughness on the sheet in order to
have smooth deep-drawing and painting operation. Deep-drawing requires a coarse
structure whereby oil pockets a ...
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Rolling Equipment for Direct Installation
by Akihiro Miyagaki, Katsuyuki Isogami
Funabashi Works produces deformed bars. At rolling mill by burning LNG in a reheating furnace, billet had been rolled at a temperature of 900 degrees. Direct rolling equipment without a reheating furn ...
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Rolling Method for Decreasing Cracks on the Roll and Surface Defects on Billet’s Corner by ‘Switch-Over On-Off’ Operation of Water-Cooling
by KOSUKE TSUJIMURA
When steel is rolled after the breakdown mill (also known as box rolling), it is difficult for the dia-square rolling method to finish the process without any surface defects (like cracks on the corne ...
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Rolling Method for Decreasing Cracks on the Roll and Surface Defects on Billet’s Corner by ‘Switch-Over On-Off’ Operation of Water-Cooling
by KOSUKE TSUJIMURA
When steel is rolled after the breakdown mill (also known as box rolling), it is difficult for the dia-square rolling method to finish the process without any surface defects (like cracks on the corne ...
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