Technology

Reasons for success of the 3-roll technology

Highest product quality at significantly improved productivity are the common market demands. The selection process of customers worldwide - including the world's top steel producing companies - found during detailed project studies that the KOCKS 3-roll technology was the best to meet these objectives as compared to all the other available options. The advantages are in particular:

Meeting the market demands

• rolling of closest tolerances
• rolling of very fine pitch diameters, i.e. "free-size" rolling
• rolling of any requested diameter at very short notice, i.e. "chance free" rolling or "just-in-time" rolling
• rolling at reduced temperatures, i.e. normalizing and thermo-mechanical rolling

Meeting the economical requirements

• improvement of mill economy by reducing operating costs and increasing yield and especially mill availability, even under consideration of severe market needs (see above).
• markedly lower costs for the downstream industry by means of reduced inventory and considerably reduced post-processing efforts.

The 3-roll technology assures in summary production
of improved quality:

• tolerances
• surfaces
• metallurgical properties

at increased economy:

• improved yield
• considerably higher mill efficiency
• reduced inventory
• lower operating costs
• lower post-processing costs