German plantmaker SMS Group has announced that Italian steelmaker Feralpi Siderurgica S.p.A. has placed an order for the supply and installation of EBROS welding technology at its Lonato plant in Brescia, Italy.
The EBROS billet welding system is used to weld together hot billets as they come out of the reheating furnace. This process makes ‘endless rolling’ possible, offering a considerable increase in productivity, material yield and plant utilization as well as guaranteeing a consistently high product quality.
SMS Group said that implementing EBROS at the existing wire rod mill may increase Feralpi’s plant productivity by up to approximately eight percent.
Feralpi will be able to weld billets up to 150 millimeters square and 12 meters in length to be rolled at the existing mill. Commissioning is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020.