| After a plant standstill of just three weeks, SMS Meer GmbH, Germany, has successfully modernised and recommissioned the two-strand high-speed wire rod mill at Badische Stahlwerke GmbH, Germany. The two-strand high-speed wire rod mill achieves an annual production capacity of 1.25 million tonnes of wire rod in diameters ranging from 5.5 to 14mm. Following successful modernisation of the five-strand roughing mill I of the high-speed wire rod mill carried-out by SMS Meer in January 2001, the company received a follow-up order in October 2002 for the remaining eight strands of the roughing and intermediate mill.
As in the previous order, the new equipment supplied essentially comprised horizontal stands of the proven full-frame design. The four new stands five to eight of the roughing mill received new drive spindles and pinion gear units, while the existing gear units of the new stands nine to twelve continued to be used. Furthermore, the intermediate mill was equipped with four new ABB medium-voltage 3-phase AC motors, type ACS 6000. During the 2004/2005 Christmas closure, the two rotary shears between roughing mill II and intermediate I will also be replaced by SMS Meer.
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