SMS Meer to Supply Wire Rod and Bar Mill for Hmisho Trading
05/18/2007 - Hmisho Trading Group, Syria, has placed an order with SMS Meer for the supply of a new combined wire rod and bar mill that will incorporate technology for the endless rolling of bars.
Hmisho Trading Group, headquartered in Lattakia, Syria, has placed an order with SMS Meer for the supply of a new combined wire rod and bar mill.
The company will use the new 300,000 tonne/year mill to produce rebars with low and medium carbon content in the size range from 8 to 40 mm for round bars and 5.5 to 16 mm for wire rod in coils.
SMS Meer will supply the complete wire rod and bar mill with electrical equipment and automation system. The mill integrates the latest technologies, including the EBROS® billet welding machine for the rolling of endless bars.
A 12-meter-long reheat furnace with a capacity of 60 tonne/hour for 130-mm square billets will feed a single-strand continuous rolling mill. The EBROS billet welding machine, which will be installed between the reheat furnace and the first stand, will systematically weld consecutive billets to one another for the endless rolling process. The continuous rolling mill consists of a roughing mill with six H/V rolling groups and an intermediate/finishing multi-pass train with eight H/V housingless stands.
Downline of the mill, a water box facilitates bar quenching, which helps to improve the mechanical properties of the low carbon steel. The HSD® (High-Speed Delivery) system, which is equipped with a rotating channel, will be installed on the inlet side of the cooling bed to transport straight bars at speeds of up to 36 meters/second. Fully automated bundling and a tying station also form part of the scope of supply.
Wire rod will be produced in a ten-stand finishing block with coil diameters of 210 and 180 mm. Product dimensions are rolled in line on a single-pass series at the maximum mill speed of 80 meters/second. Two water cooling sections and 65-meter-long loop cooling conveyor will ensure optimally controlled product cooling. Behind the cooling section, the line is completed with bundling and transport equipment, and a coil compacting and tying station.
The bundling station is equipped with an integral sickle-type shear with a reduced installation height of 500 mm. The shear is designed to cut coils of wire rod with diameters up to 16 mm. These system components will help the company produce higher and more flexible coil weights with an improved product yield, higher productivity, and a reduction in the number of short bars and scrap rollings.
The mill is scheduled to go into production in 2007.
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.
