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SMS Meer to Supply Universal Mill to OAO Novokuznetsk Iron & Steel

09/07/2010 - OAO Novokuznetsk Iron & Steel has placed an order with SMS Meer for a new universal rail and section mill. The mill is designed for a capacity of 1.3 million tonnes per year, 950,000 tonnes of which are rails.

OAO Novokuznetsk Iron & Steel has placed an order with SMS Meer for a new universal rail and section mill. The mill is designed for a capacity of 1.3 million tonnes per year, 950,000 tonnes of which are rails. This includes 400,000 tonnes per year of 100-m-long rails that can be used for high-speed rail tracks or with hardened rail heads for high axle loads such as for heavy goods trains. Beams, channels, and round and square bars can also be produced on this mill.
 
The order forms part of a modernization program for the existing rail production plant. The modernization will be carried out in several part-projects. For the hot rolling section, SMS Meer is to supply the rolling technology and the complete mechanical and electrical equipment and the automation system.
 
The latest CCS® stands are used in the universal mill. A laser profile gauge (Progauge) is employed for inline measurement of the finished profiles. The scope of supply also includes two roughing stands with manipulators, grip-type tilters upline and downline of the tandem stand group, all transport facilities, a hot saw, the media supply systems, as well as the supervision of erection and commissioning, training of the customer’s personnel, and spare parts.
 
The beams are produced using the proven XH® reversing rolling method developed by SMS Meer.
 
The production standstill for changing the rolling mill is expected to be four months. The mill, which will be erected in the existing bays, is scheduled to go into production in October 2012.
 
OAO Novokuznetsk Iron & Steel, part of the EVRAZ Group, is the largest rail producer in Russia.
  
SMS Meer GmbH is a company of the SMS group, which is, under the roof of the holding SMS GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It consists of the two business areas, SMS Siemag and SMS Meer. In 2009, some 9000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of EUR 3.9 billion.