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.
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Electrical and automation systems
Electrical and Automation Systems
Operation and Visualization
The key role of the human elementOur ergonomically designed control stations support the activities of your operating personnel. Included here is our new HMI system which guides them intelligently through the process.
Electrical and Automation Systems
Plug & Work
Time is moneyMany customers around the world have already benefited from Plug & Work for more than 100 new plant and modernization projects.
Electrical and Automation Systems
Service
Always at your side. Quick and reliable, worldwide service and training for electrical and automation systems.
Service
Service
Consulting & Training
Building on experienceHowever, not only a service partner for your plants and machines, SMS group is also there for your staff. Furthermore, You can enroll on standardized and individual training programs designed for you by our SMS TECademy. That ensures you strengthen your competence as a plant owner.
Service
Maintenance & Repairs
Whether you require one-off equipment checks, continuous condition monitoring, remote service, or regular plant inspections: our service experts will take care of it all. You can even outsource your complete maintenance operations to us. This ensures excellent plant availability plus best production results.
Service
Spare parts & Logistics
When the spare parts you need are no longer available or the new generation is not 100% compatible, you risk plant standstills. That's why SMS group constantly monitors the availability of all parts and, where necessary, offers modern alternatives - even for parts from third-party suppliers. This ensures competitiveness and full productivity over the entire life cycle of your plant.
Service
Upgrades & Modernization
Keep your plant state-of-the-artEven plants "built to last" need to be critically examined from time to time, because markets and production processes are continuously evolving. Together with you, our service experts will find the best revamp options for your requirements. Once again bang up to date, your plants will then be ready to bolster your strong position on the market.
Service
X-Roll® Oil Bearing
For more reliability, safety and efficiencySMS group has banked 60 years of experience supplying all generations of oil film bearings to rolling mills in the steel and non-ferrous industry worldwide. Today, you can identify our modern and cost-effective roll neck bearings by the SMS group trademark. TEST TEST
Videos
System supplier SMS group - A five-meter heavy-plate mill for MMK
Heat treatment system for Outokumpu stainless - High flexibility for small batch sizes
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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