LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH

New order
22 Newsletter 2/2010
Service
High-speed guides and innovative guide holders
South Steel, Saudi Arabia:
New guide series ordered
The South Steel Company, an enterprise
based in Jizan Economic City, Saudi Arabia,
has commissioned SMS Meer to
equip the bar mill of its new minimill
with our newly developed guide series.
The order comprises the design, construction
and supply of standard and
high-speed guides.
Scope of supply
In detail, we supply three complete sets of
guides as well as the equipment for the assembly
and the adjustment of the guides.
The roughing and the intermediate trains are
provided with our newly developed entry
and exit guides as well as with Mono-Block
and two-roller guides. The finishing block is
equipped with the latest series of high-speed
guides and with our innovative guide holders.
Steelworks of SMS Concast
Bar mill of SMS Meer
High-speed guide.
The order is part of a minimill project which is
currently handled by SMS Meer and SMS Concast.
The new minimill is yet another example
for a successful cooperation between the individual
companies within the SMS group. SMS
Concast supplies the steel plant and the continuous
caster, SMS Meer is building the 22stand
bar mill with an annual capacity of nearly
500,000 t. The mill processes square billets with
an edge length of 150 mm to round bars with
diameters between 8 and 32 mm. The rolling
mill is scheduled to be put into operation soon.