Ningbo Shimao Copper from Zhejiang province, China, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply of a complete casting and rolling plant of the CONTIROD® type fr the production of copper wire rod. The company is thus strengthening its position in the copper business.
Ningbo Shimao Copper is a Chinese producer of copper cathodes Grade A, copper wire rod and special copper cables. The CONTIROD® line is intented for the new plant in the Bin Hai Industrial Zone near Yuyao. Zheijang Province.
The high-performance wire rod line can produce 225,00t of quality copper wire rod per year from cathodes. The CONTIROD® line is designed for an outpur of 35t per hour and will thus be one of the larger ones of its kind in China.
It comprises a gas control system on the shaft furnace for the melting of copper cathodes and a modular Hazelett twin-belt caster for a casting cross-section of 90mm X 70mm. the line operates with a highly flexible 12-stand rolling mill. Due to newly designed Lambda gas control system and the usage of variable-frequency controlle drives for blowers and mill stands this CONTIROD® plant is, with fuel consumption figures of 300, 000kcal/t and 42kWh/t, one of the most economical and ecological of its kind.
Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for November 2013