Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will modernize the bar rolling mill of Turkish steel producer Çelik Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Çemtaş), located in the Turkish province of Bursa. The new equipment will enable Çemtaş to further improve its product quality, especially in respect of mechanical properties, metallurgical structure and the surface quality of the rolled bars. The modernized rolling mill is scheduled to come into operation at the beginning of 2015.
With the new automation system, the bar rolling mill will see an increase in productivity and a reduction in downtimes for maintenance. After completion of modernization, the rolling mill will produce bars with diameters ranging from 15 mm to 80 mm. It will also be able to produce flat bars with thicknesses ranging from 5.5 mm to 62 mm and widths from 46 mm to 140 mm. For the bar rolling mill, Siemens will supply a reversing sliding roughing stand which will be able to roll billets up to a size of 200 mm.
Çemtaş is the second-largest producer of alloyed bar steels in
Turkey, and supplies the European automotive industry. It exports around 70 percent of its products. The company has its own steel production and rolling capacities at the Bursa location. It produces structural, case-hardened, heat-treatable and spring steels, as well as micro-alloyed grades, stainless steel, free-cutting and boron steels.