Whether skyscrapers or offshore platforms, giant bridges or slender wind turbines, pipelines, gasholders for enormous pressures, excavators, mobile cranes, container ships, luxury liners - heavy plate covers a vast range of applications. Ideal for all these products are heavy-plate mills from SMS group. They also allow steelmakers to supply plates with tailor-made material properties designed for tight geometrical tolerances. As a system supplier, SMS offers you the complete technology spectrum from reheating furnaces to heat treatment including mechanical engineering, electrical and automation systems, and process know-how.
Heavy-plate mill designs
Heavy-plate mills

Steckel/plate mills

Technology
X-Roll® Oil Bearing
Hydrodynamic roll-neck bearings from SMS group are highly advanced and elementary components of modern rolling mill technology. That's because they support the load-bearing backup rolls. Even under extremely tough operating conditions, they ensure long roll service life and minimal maintenance outlay. This is how roll-neck bearings contribute substantially to meeting the high requirements for optimal final strip geometry.




Selected References
Electrical and automation systems
Service
Videos
Downloads
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Fascinating Heavy Plate - electrics and automation for heavy plate mills
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Heavy plate production at MMK
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Heavy-Plate Mills
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Roll shop equipment
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Maintenance service
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Oil film bearings
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Future-proof complete solutions from one source - Electrics and Automation
Contact

Stephan Krämer
SMS group GmbH
Flat Rolling Plants
Wiesenstraße 30
57271 Hilchenbach-Dahlbruch
Germany
Phone
: +49 2733 29 1616

Klaus Pronold
SMS group GmbH
Vice President Electrics/Automation Flat Rolling Mills
Wiesenstraße 30
57271 Hilchenbach-Dahlbruch
Germany
Phone
: +49 2733 29 1089

Günter Schultz
SMS group GmbH
Service Hot Rolling Mills
Wiesenstraße 30
57271 Hilchenbach-Dahlbruch
Germany
Phone
: +49 2733 29 1556