World's largest cold pilger mill from SMS group
Another milestone in the history of successful seamless tube production: The world's largest cold pilger mill from SMS group expands Mannesmann Stainless Tubes' production portfolio for seamless stainless steel tubes at its site in Remscheid, Germany.
The cold pilger mill KPW 370-L for Mannesmann Stainless Tubes (MST), a company of Salzgitter AG, is our largest-ever cold pilger mill. With the new cold pilger mill MST expand their product portfolio to include larger pipes with outside diameters of up to 290 millimeters.
The KPW 370 L operates at 65 strokes per minute and has a drive power of up to 1.55 megawatts. The 44-ton mill stand moves forward and backward 65 times a minute. As the input stock mainly comprises materials that are difficult to form, the mill stand was equipped with a specially developed hydraulic force limitation system, in order to avoid the resulting overloads.
The cold pilger mill is fitted with various systems for collecting production and process data. In addition, a Genius CM® (condition monitoring) system, also supplied by SMS, is installed on the crank drive. This enables irregularities during operation and damage to the equipment to be detected early on, in order to plan timely and long-term maintenance and repair measures and thus avoid consequential damage. This means plant failures can be reduced to a minimum and downtimes for maintenance can be kept short.
With the new cold pilger mill from SMS group, we are expanding our product portfolio to include larger pipes with outside diameters of up to 290 millimeters.
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