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Rolling mills and equipment
News Release from: Morgan Construction Company | Subject: High capacity oil film bearings
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2006
Austrian firm orders USA bearings for
Polish mill
An Austrian rolling mill builder is ordering the highest capacity oil film bearings for a new installation being built in Poland.
The Morgoil Bearing Division of Morgan Construction Company has received a contract from Siemens-VAI (Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau and Co), a mill builder located in Linz, Austria, for the design and manufacture of Morgoil Bearings The bearings will be installed in a new mill being built by Siemens-VAI for Mittal in Poland
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Gabriel Royo, vice president and general manager of Morgoil, "These bearings represent the company's latest Morgoil KLX technology, which is the highest capacity oil film bearing ever designed.
The KLX technology is now installed or being installed in 25 different mills around the world.
The Morgoil KLX has been broadly accepted as the new oil film bearing for this century." Engineering and technical support for this contract will be supplied by the company's headquarters facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, while the equipment and manufacturing components will be manufactured through worldwide sources.
Delivery is scheduled to start in the spring of 2006.
The Morgoil Bearing Division provides a wide range of oil film bearing solutions for the most demanding applications in the metal rolling industries worldwide.
Its parent firm, Morgan Construction Company, is a designer and producer of high-quality rolling mill products and services for the metal industry worldwide.
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