Press releases worldwide
Sandvik Materials Technology, Sweden, has awarded SMS group (www.sms-group.com) the contract to revamp a 75-ton AOD converter at its stainless steel mill in Sandviken, Sweden. Commissioning is scheduled for August 2018. SMS group’s scope of supply comprises a new converter […]
ElvalHalcor S.A. (www.elval.com), the newly merged business of Elval Hellenic Aluminium Industry S.A. and Halcor Metal Works S.A., Greece, will boost its output of prime aluminum flat rolled products. The company which belongs to the Belgium-based Viohalco holding awarded the […]
The Spanish company Exlabesa Extrusion Padron SL has ordered a continuous homogenizing furnace with air cooling station, long billet stacker, billet saw, semi-automatic strapping and automatic weighing station from Hertwich Engineering, a company of SMS group, for its extrusion plant […]
As part of its digitalization offensive, SMS group (www.sms-group.com) has kicked off a research and development project on intelligent production planning in coopeation with Jacobs University of Bremen, Germany. The project will cover aspects such as dynamic reacting to specific production […]
The new HD (High Definition) spray technology from SMS group (www.sms-group.com) was implemented and successfully commissioned in the two-strand slab caster at ArcelorMittal Bremen during November and December 2017. SMS group retrofitted the two strands of the vertical bending caster one […]
PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhd., based in Sarawak, Malaysia, has contracted SMS group (www.sms-group.com) to supply two SAF (Submerged Arc Furnace) for the production of silicon. The planned production capacity is 32,000 tons of silicon per year. Commissioning is scheduled for […]
The new AQTF (Advanced Quench-and-Temper Facility) heat-treatment line supplied by SMS group (www.sms-group.com) to TimkenSteel Corporation at its Gambrinus Steel Plant in Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. has commenced full commercial production. Extensive testing was successfully completed in November 2017, and TimkenSteel […]
In December 2017 a delegation from the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan visited the SHARC electric arc furnace plant (Shaft Arc – electric arc furnace with scrap preheating in the shaft) at Hellenic Halyvourgia (HLV) in Volos, Greece. Hellenic […]
Jianlong Beiman Special Steel Co., Ltd., based in Qiqihar, China, has awarded SMS group (www.sms-group.com) a contract to supply core components for a high-speed wire rod mill for quality steel. The centerpiece of the new wire rod mill, which has […]
In Tianjin, near Beijing, Chinese aluminum producer Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co. Ltd. operates two high-capacity aluminum hot rolling lines supplied by SMS group (www.sms-group.com). In January 2018, one of the two lines in 1+1+3 configuration, i.e. two reversing roughing stands […]