Danieli QSP® – Quality Strip Production – at Nucor Steel Gallatin
Nucor Steel Gallatin has contracted Danieli to upgrade its hot strip plant in Ghent, Kentucky, USA. The new plant configuration – from compact thin slab casting and rolling plant to ultra-modern QSP® (Quality Strip Production) – will allow the plant to improve thermomechanical rolling capabilities and increase product range. This […]
Mi.DA. 4.0: Endless casting and rolling process empowered by digital technologies
Mi.DA., or ‘Micro-mill Danieli’, has been in industrial operation since 2009. Its benefits in terms of cost reduction and operating efficiency are well documented. Over the last decade there has been an incredible development of information and communications technologies as the availability and speed of mobile internet connections has constantly […]
Metal powder production for additive manufacturing at SMS
SMS has designed, built and commissioned a powder atomisation plant at the SMS group facilities in Mönchengladbach. The facility is an industrial scale demonstration plant and will form part of a new Demostration Centre for use by SMS and its customers. The objective is to offer SMS customers complete Additive […]
Energy recovery from steel reheating furnacese
Saving energy in a steelworks is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. CMI designs and builds reheating furnace energy recovery systems which convert ‘waste’ heat into steam for re-use, providing up to 35% of a typical steelworks steam requirement.
SMART CORE – new software makes intelligent use of quality data in a Smart Factory
With the new ‘SMART CORE’ software for the measurement of long products, quality data can be integrated deeply into the customer’s process network environment, allowing the data to be used across various processes within a Smart Factory.
Integrated strip stabilisation system FOEN DEMCOJET®
The FOEN® air knife system is well-known as the most advanced galvanising system for the production of all steel grades used in the automotive industry with highest demands on surface qualities. The first integrated solution of an air knife in combination with a strip stabilisation system was also executed with […]
Electrical steel strip: Technical solutions for heat treatment
The world’s leading electrical strip producers have placed their trust in tried and tested Tenova LOI Thermprocess heat treatment plants for most of their new plant and modernisation projects.
Strip pre-oxidation for galvanised strip in a full radiant tube furnace
Advanced high strength steel grades are known to have poor zinc wettability when using a full radiant tube processing cycle. A laboratory study was used to determine the effects of a surface pre-oxidation stage, followed by reduction stage before Zn coating. The work was successful and identified an adequate process […]
REBAR measurement like never before with PROFILEMASTER® Systems from ZUMBACH
ZUMBACH Electronics, a leading supplier of noncontact measuring technologies for the metal and steel industry, introduces its newest PROFILEMASTER SPS 80 gauge for in-line measurement of any rebar type. Sophisticated capabilities allow the measurement of rebar products in hot rolling processes.
Additive manufacturing at SMS group – philosophy and products
Additive Manufacturing is being exploited at breathtaking speed. Now design engineers are not restricted by any manufacturing constraints such as having to consider the geometry of the input stock, so can start out from the function the component is going to perform and can immediately examine the ‘printed’ result in […]