Modernization
contract: New electrical and automation systems to increase production and
improve final product quality
SMS Siemag to
upgrade 1,800-mm Steckel mill of Shandong Taishan
Shandong Taishan Steel Group Co. ,Ltd., China, awarded
SMS Siemag, Germany, the order to upgrade the automation system of its 1,800-mm
Steckel mill as part of a capacity increase. The scope of supply includes the
worldwide proven CVC plus bending and bending and shifting system with Profile,
Contour and Flatness Control (PCFC) systems to ensure good dimensional accuracy
of the strip. Additionally, SMS Siemag will supply the patented Steckel loopers
for optimal strip tension and mass flow control. With this modernization,
project at its Laiwu location in the Chinese province of Shandong, Shandong
Taishan intends to increase its production of hot wide strip and extend the
product range towards higher grades.
At present, the capacity of the Steckel rolling mill is
600,000 typ. The revamping measures to be implemented by SMS Siemag will prepare
the ground for the planned capacity increase to 1,800,000 tpy.
The Steckel mill is used to produce hot-rolled stainless
and carbon steel strips for use in the automotive, shipbuilding and household
appliances industries.
SMS Siemag will supply the X-Pact electrical and
automation systems, including the control systems and process models, as well
as key mechanical components. SMS Siemag will also be responsible for
supervising the installation and commissioning. A new HMI system on the basis
of SMS Siemag-developed control pulpits will enable an ergonomic operating
process. The supply package will also include medium-voltage converter systems
for the main drive of the new coiler No. 2. The existing laminar cooling
section will be replaced by a new reinforced
laminar cooling system with a higher specific water volume and optimized
water distribution across the strip width.
The Shandong Taishan Steel Group operates several hot and
cold rolling mills in China, which produce strip and sheet in stainless and
carbon steel grades.
SMS
group
Heinrich Weiss
turns 70
Dr. Heinrich Weiss, Chairman and CEO of the SMS group,
will be 70 years old on June 5, 2012.
Heinrich Weiss, who grew up in the Siegerland region of
Germany, belongs to the founding family of the company her been running in the
fourth generation for 41 years. Following graduation as an engineer (1967),
several years of practical work, and a period as CEO of a subsidiary, Heinrich
Weiss in 1971 succeeded his father Bernhard as Chairman of SIEMAG Siegener
Maschinenbau GmbH, Hilchenbach, Germany. Even then, the company ranked among
Germany’s ‘’big five’’ rolling mill manufacturers, with annual sales totaling
some EUR 70 million.
Managed by Heinrich Weiss, the company expanded through a
number of mergers and takeovers in Germany and abroad, developing into today”s
SMS group, a global leader in plant and machinery construction for the
manufacture and processing of steel and nonferrous metals. There is a workforce
of some 11,000 employees that generates sales of more than EUR 3 billion.
Heinrich Weiss is a member of the Administrative Board of
Bombardier Inc., Montreal, Canada, and also sits on the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin and Voith
AG, Heidenheim, both in Germany.
He has also assumed extensive responsibilities in
politics and in several associations. Currently he is Chairman of the External
Economic Relations Advisory Board for the Federal Minister of Economics, Berlin, a member of the
Asia-Pacific Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, Berlin.
From 2008 to 2012, he acted as President of the
German-Russian chamber of Commerce, and from 1982 to 1997 he was Chairman of
the China Working Group of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business,
Heinrich Weiss is considered one of the pioneers of Chinese-German business
relations after the opening of the country in the late seventies. From 1983 to
1988, he served as Chairman of the
Economic Committee of the CDU party, from 1983 to 1989 Vice President of the
VDMA- German Engineering Federation, and from 1991 to 1992 he was President of
the BDI-Federation of German Industry.
In 2001, Heinrich Weiss was awarded the title of Dr.-Ing.
E.h.by RWTH Aachen University.
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