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News Release from: DavyMarkham | Subject: Heavy duty wide plate mill
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2005
Largest UK built plate mill celebrated
Largest plate mill stand ever built in the UK, for Shagang, has a maximum rolling load of 10,000MN to produce plate between 1500mm and 4900mm wide, at speeds up to 7.3m/s.
Specially-invited guests from China and across Europe recently attended an open day to celebrate the completion of the largest plate mill stand ever built in the UK The event was jointly staged by three major Sheffield steel manufacturing firms, AK Heavy Engineering, Siemens VAI (UK) and Sheffield Forgemasters
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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UK-based heavy machining and fabricating company is poducing a 1050 tonnes, 5m wide plate rolling stand for an Indian steel plant - to be machined and test assembled before shipping.
The 5 metre wide, 20MW stand, which has been designed for the Shagang steel company in PR China, is at 1,000 tonnes the heaviest rolling mill fabricated from separate castings connected by high tension bolts.
During the day, guests attended a technical presentation on the project from Siemens VAI, who secured the contract from the Chinese plate mill facility, visited Sheffield's celebrated Kelham Island industrial museum and viewed the 17m (56ft) high stand in proof assembly at AK Heavy Engineering's giant Prince of Wales Road works.
The timing was particularly auspicious, since it is 100 years since Davy Bros of Sheffield, which has historical links with all three present-day firms, built the celebrated 12,000HP River Don Engine, to drive Charles Cammell's then-massive armour plate rolling mill.
By comparison, that historic mill scaled 80 tonnes and produced steel plate 42in (1067mm) wide for naval warships, which included 'HMS Sheffield'.
Once installed and commissioned, the new Shagang mill stand, which has a maximum rolling load of 100MN (10,000 tonf) will produce plate between 1500mm and 4900mm wide, at speeds up to 7.3m/s, for applications such as shipbuilding, construction and civil engineering.
It required casting, pouring, transporting, lifting and machining processes on a scale never employed before by Sheffield Forgemasters or AK Heavy Engineering.
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