SMS Meer to Supply Finishing Center for Pervouralsk
05/21/2007 - OAO Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works, part of the ChTPZ Group, Russia, has placed an order with SMS Meer for a complete finishing center for their existing pipe plant.
OAO “Pervouralsky Novotrubny Works”, part of the ChTPZ Group, Russia, has placed an order with SMS Meer for a complete finishing center for their existing pipe plant.
Designed for an annual capacity of 75,000 to 90,000 tonnes, the finishing center comprises a tubing/casing line, testing line, upsetting line, and heat-treat unit. The whole complex is coordinated and controlled by a superordinate computer system.
Tubes ranging in size from 60.3 to 177.8 mm can be finished on the tubing/casing line. The line includes four pipe-threading machines, a two-head hydrostatic pipe tester with a maximum pressure of 150 MPa, and two drifter units for checking the pipe inside diameter. It also includes an automatic measuring system for weight, length, testing, and marking, and a magnetic bundler for stacking pipes in hexagonal bundles.
On the upsetting line, tubings and drillpipes ranging in diameter from 60.3 to 127 mm are upset at the pipe ends. For this area, SMS Meer’s scope of supply includes a 2500-kN upsetting press, upline induction heater, and the necessary inspection and testing stations. The testing line will be used to inspect the quality of the heat-treated and non-heat-treated pipes. Longitudinal and transverse flaw tests are performed in accordance with the international standards.
Upset and plain-end pipes ranging in size from 60.3 to 219.1 mm will be heat treated on the heat-treat line. The scope of supply for this area includes a hardening furnace and an annealing furnace supplied by SMS Meer, Italy, quenching facilities with the associated water management system, a hot straightener with the necessary contra-flow cooling beds, and interconnecting transport facilities.
Commissioning of the whole finishing center is scheduled for the end of 2008.
SMS GmbH is the holding for a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering relating to the processing of steel, nonferrous metals and plastics. The group is divided into the Business Areas SMS Demag and SMS Meer under SMS metallurgy and into the Business Area SMS Plastics Technology. In the year 2006 some 9,000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 2.8 billion.
