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Siemens to Supply Rebar Mill to Gulf Steel Industries
07/16/2007 - Siemens Metals Technologies receives an order from Gulf Steel Industries for the supply of a new rebar mill to be built in the Mussaffah Industrial Area of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Siemens Metals Technologies received an order from Gulf Steel Industries Co. Ltd (GSIC), United Arab Emirates, for the supply of a new rebar mill to be built in the Mussaffah Industrial Area of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
GSIC decided to expand their production output in order to supply the booming and growing Middle Eastern market demand for rebars. The new rolling mill will be designed to produce 400,000 tonnes of carbon steel bars per year.
Siemens will engineer and supply the mechanical equipment for rolling and handling. The rolling train will be equipped with 18 RedRing rolling stands—six each in the roughing, intermediate and finishing sections of the line. These mill stands are characterized by their highly rigid and sturdy design, reliable operation, quick-roll-change capability, and easy maintenance requirements. Over 4,000 such units have been supplied to date.
Siemens will install a quick-stand-change device in the finishing section to minimize mill downtime. The handling area of the mill will include a 66-meter-long cooling bed, a cold-flying shear with a 190-ton cutting capacity, a bar-counting device, and an automatic bar-bundling system.
Gulf Steel’s new line is scheduled to be completed by early 2009. The contract value for Siemens is a several-million euro figure.
Gulf Steel Construction Industries, a subsidiary company of Al-Nasser Industrial Enterprises, currently produces reinforcing bars (120,000 tonnes/year), cold-ribbed bars (36,000 tonnes/year) and welded mesh (30,000 tonnes/year) for the construction industry throughout the Middle East.
Metals Technologies (MT), a Division of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group, is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry as well as for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Austria, plus the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for all related technological processes and integrated automation solutions for the entire life-cycle of metallurgical plants.
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products and systems and process technologies in order to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness of companies in the sectors of metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 8.819 billion, according to U.S. GAAP.
