Mill Stand Drives optimization in Ontario, Canada
GERDAU Whitby, in Ontario (Canada), has contracted AIC North America Corp. for the revamping of the structural mill roughing stand drives in order to reduce downtime and boost readiness. The order comes to confirm the long-held relationship between AIC and the site and to confirm one more time the good […]
Upgrading automation and control system for Acindar’s Fenicsa site in Argentina
Once again, AIC has been selected by Acindar, Arcelor Mittal Group, for an improvement on the evacuation and cold shears area of its rolling mill Fenicsa in Argentina, after the successful collaboration in revamping intervention of the three-high rolling stand that was carried out on the same site a few […]
Primetals, Midrex and Metalloinvest lay solid foundation for development of green steelmaking
The companies sign contract for the construction of the world’s largest hot briquetted iron (HBI) facility with approximate investments of over USD 600 million Start of operations in 2025, production capacity 2.08 million metric tons The new plant will strengthen Metalloinvest’s leadership in the global market for HBI, the base […]
AIC has passed the Final Acceptance Certificate for robotic tagging application at Alfa Acciai, Italy.
In summer 2020, Alfa Acciai awarded the contract to Automazioni Industriali Capitanio (AIC) for supplying and installing two advanced robots for tagging process at the wire rod rolling mill, in Brescia (BS, Italy).
Henan Jiyuan I&S remains committed to the KOCKS 3-roll technology
The Chinese special steel producer Henan Jiyuan Iron & Steel Co.,Ltd. (I&S) has placed an order with Friedrich KOCKS GmbH & Co KG, Hilden, Germany, for a Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB®) 500++/4 for its Big Bar mill.