The Chinese company Jiangsu Shenyuan Special Steel from Shenyuan, Jiangsu province, has awarded an order to SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply of the wire rod outlet of a specila steel rolling mill. The mill has an annual production capacity of more than 180,000t and rolls top-quality stainless steels and high-grade valve steels.
Diameters from 5.5 to 20mm are produced with a maximum capacity of 60 t/h and max. 70 m/s. the envisaged expansion of the mill to include bar steel in coils well cover a size range from from 21-40mm in diameter.
The wire rod section consists of compact CL stands in H/V arrangement renowned for their especially high load-bearing capacity. Installed downstream are a eight-stand wire-rod finishing block, a pinch-roll unit ana a loop laying head as well as the LCC® (Loop Cooling Conveyor). The LCC® is designed in such a way that the heated wire rod coils can be collected directly downstream of the laying head in order to subsequently feed them to an inline heat treatment system.
Commissioning is scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2013.